2 papers
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…
hep-th2025
Spontaneous Space-Time Parity Breaking Without Thermal Restoration
Bilal Hawashin, Michael M. Scherer, Michael Smolkin +1
We construct an ultraviolet-complete, local, and unitary quantum field theory in 2+1 dimensions that exhibits spontaneous breaking of space-time parity, persisting to arbitrarily h…