2 papers
hep-th2026
Persistent Spontaneous Time-Reversal Breaking
Michael Smolkin, Lev Yung
We provide an analytic realization of spontaneous parity and time-reversal breaking without thermal restoration in a local, unitary, ultraviolet-complete quantum field theory in $2…
hep-th2026
Thermal Order in the Biconical Model
Michael Smolkin, Lev Yung
Thermal fluctuations are generally expected to destroy order and restore symmetries at sufficiently high temperatures. Recently, however, a family of scalar theories in dimen…