Metastable vacua in large-N QCD3

Armoni, Adi; Dumitrescu, Thomas T.; Festuccia, Guido; Komargodski, Zohar

doi:10.1007/jhep01(2020)004

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Metastable vacua in large-N QCD3

Adi Armoni

, Thomas T. Dumitrescu, Guido Festuccia, Zohar Komargodski

Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: 2020, Issue: 1

Swansea University Author: Adi Armoni

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We reexamine the vacuum structure of three-dimensional quantum chromodynamics (QCD3) with gauge group SU(N), Nf fundamental quark flavors, and a level-k Chern-Simons term. This analysis can be reliably carried out in the large-N, fixed Nf,k limit of the theory, up to certain assumptions that we spel...

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Metastable vacua in large-N QCD3

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