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Fractonic self-duality and covariant magnetic fractons
Erica Bertolini, Giandomenico Palumbo
Fractons, excitations with restricted mobility, have emerged as a novel paradigm in high-energy and condensed matter physics, revealing deep connections to gauge theories and gravi…
Fractons on curved spacetime in dimensions
Jelle Hartong, Giandomenico Palumbo, Simon Pekar +2
We study dipole Chern-Simons theory with and without a cosmological constant in dimensions. We write the theory in a second order formulation and show that this leads to a fr…
Covariant fracton gauge theory with boundary
Erica Bertolini, Nicola Maggiore, Giandomenico Palumbo
In this paper we study the consequences of the introduction of a flat boundary on a 4D covariant rank-2 gauge theory described by a linear combination of linearized gravity and cov…
Emergent Dynamics of Spacetime and Matter from a Topological Phase
Giandomenico Palumbo
In this paper, we present a new theoretical scenario in which both dynamical Dirac fermions and Einstein's gravity with a positive cosmological constant and torsion emerge via a sp…
On the Emergent Dynamics of Fermions in Curved Spacetime
Giandomenico Palumbo
Relativistic spin-1/2 particles in curved spacetime are naturally described by Dirac theory, which is a dynamical and Lorentz-invariant field theory. In this work, we propose a non…