Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Quantum field theory][Gauge theory'

This thesis investigates the problems within quantum mechanics for the Bohm model caused by Lorentz invariance and the existence of photons. A model describing the electromagnetic interactions of fermions is produced which does not use photons and avoids these problems. It is then shown how these techniques can be extended to linearised gravitational interactions. Finally semi-classical gravity and the possibility of gravitationally induced collapse are considered. In the first part of the thesis two modifications to the Bohm model are proposed. One takes account of Lorentz invariance, and the other is capable of describing photons. The main part of the thesis is devoted to describing interactions in a way which does not need extra gauge particles, and so is in the same spirit as the Bohm model. Electromagnetic interactions are formed using a 4-potential operator which is calculated directly, without imposing commutation relations on the 4-potential. This leads to an expression for the 4-potential in terms of the Dirac field, and results in there being no photon states. There are various ways of constructing the theory and the scattering matrix of standard QED is compared to the scattering matrix of the version which appears to be most similar. Considering only the matrix elements between fermion states, they are found to be in agreement at the order e(^2), but disagree at the order e(^4). It follows that this model, which otherwise appears to be a self consistent theory of QED, cannot agree with experiment. The same techniques can be used to quantise General Relativity when it is linearised about the Minkowski metric. The metric operator is calculated in terms of the Dirac field. The interaction is similar to that of electrodynamics, being of order 4 in the Dirac field. Finally issues relating to gravitational collapse are discussed.

Using the absolute stability requirement of the Standard Model vacuum, we compute the Higgs mass bound for the 1-loop Standard Model effective potential with gauge dependence in the $R_\xi$ gauges together with 3-loop beta functions, 3-loop anomalous dimension and 2-loop threshold corrections. We find that the bound changes by +0.1GeV when we change the gauge parameter $\xi$ from 0 to 50. We also report that the Higgs bound plateaus as we increase $\xi$ beyond 100.

In this thesis we investigate the role played by fundamental properties of QED in determining the non-perturbative fermion-boson vertex. These key features are gauge invariance and multiplicative renormalisability. We use the Schwinger-Dyson equations as the non- perturbative tool to study the general structure of the fermion-boson vertex in QED. These equations, being an infinite set, have to be truncated if they are to be solved. Such a truncation is made possible by choosing a suitable non-perturbative ansatz for the fermion-boson vertex. This choice must satisfy these key properties of gauge invariance and multiplicative renormalisability. In this thesis we develop the constraints, in the case of massless unquenched QED, that have to be fulfilled to ensure that both the fermion and photon propagators are multiplicatively renormalisable-at least as far as leading and subleading logarithms are concerned. To this end, the Schwinger-Dyson equations are solved perturbatively for the fermion and photon wave-function renormalisations. We then deduce the conditions imposed by multiplicative renormalisability for these renormalisation functions. As a last step we compare the two results coming from the solution of the Schwinger-Dyson equations and multiplicative renormalisability in order to derive the necessary constraints on the vertex function. These constitute the main results of this part of the thesis. In the weak coupling limit the solution of the Schwinger-Dyson equations must agree with perturbation theory. Consequently, we can find additional constraints on the 3- point vertex by perturbative calculation. Hence, the one loop vertex in QED is then calculated in arbitrary covariant gauges as an analytic function of its momenta. The vertex is decomposed into a longitudinal part, that is fully responsible for ensuring the Ward and Ward-Takahashi identities are satisfied, and a transverse part. The transverse part is decomposed into 8 independent components each being separately free of kinematic singularities in any covariant gauge in a basis that modifies that proposed by Ball and Chiu. Analytic expressions for all 11 components of the O(a) vertex are given explicitly in terms of elementary functions and one Spence function. These results greatly simplify in particular kinematic regimes. These are the new results of the second part of this thesis.

La théorie de cordes unifie de façon naturelle les théories de jauge, qui décrivent les interactions entre les particules élémentaires, avec une théorie quantique de la gravitation. Ces dernières années ont apporté de grands progrès dans la compréhension des états non-perturbatifs de la théorie, ses aspects holographiques, ainsi que la construction de modèles proches du Modèle Standard. Néanmoins, il reste des défis pour la théorie de cordes, qui incluent une définition non-perturbative, une meilleure compréhension de l'holographie, et le problème de la constante cosmologique. Ma recherche s'est concentrée sur des aspects formels des théories de gravitation quantique, qui incluent les trous noirs, la dépendance du temps, et l'holographie. Gr^ace à de nouveaux résultats dans le domaine de la théorie conforme avec spectre continu, mes collaborateurs et moi-m^eme avons avancé dans la compréhension de l'holographie dans des fonds avec dilaton linéaire, ainsi que dans le plongement de théories de jauge supersymétriques dans la théorie de cordes. En particulier, on a étudié des théories conformes supersymétriques avec spectre continu que l'on utilise pour construire des fonds de théories de cordes non-compacts et courbés. Les résultats obtenus nous ont permis de décrire des exemples explicites de symétrie miroir pour des fonds non-compacts. En introduisant des bords dans les théories conformes, on a analysé des états non-perturbatifs de la théorie de cordes, les D-branes. A basse énergie, les degrés de liberté sur les D-branes interagissent par des interactions de jauge. Avec ces outils, on a réussi à plonger une dualité infrarouge de théorie de jauge supersymétrique dans la théorie de cordes, et on a montré que la dualité correspond à une monodromie pour les états de bord dans l'espace de modules de la théorie conforme.

Dans cette thèse, on discute de nombreux autres liens entre la théorie conforme, la théorie de jauge et la gravitation. La plupart des contributions décrites étaient motivées par la théorie de cordes. Des exemples sont l'analyse d'états qui préservent la supersymétrie et leur lien avec les algèbres affines, la dépendance du temps et le dictionnaire holographique, l'analyse directe de la quantification de la gravité en présence d'un trou noir, la réalisation du scenario sans-bord pour la fonction d'onde de l'univers en théorie de cordes, une formule de Verlinde pour les théories conformes non-rationnelles et la construction de solutions non-géometriques à la supergravité. Dans d'autres travaux, je me suis concentré sur des théories qui quantifient la gravité plus directement, mais qui pourraient avoir moins de succès dans le problème de l'unification des forces en quatre dimensions. Ces théories ont quand-m^eme le potentiel de nous apprendre des aspects communs à toute théorie de gravitation quantique. Par exemple, on a analysé les degrés de liberté responsables de l'entropie d'un trou noir en trois dimensions, et nous avons argumenté sur la difficulté de reconcilier l'invariance modulaire avec l'unitarité en dehors de la théorie de cordes. On a aussi discuté la diffusion de ces trous noirs. D'autres contributions à la théorie de jauge non-commutative, la théorie de jauge supersymétrique, la production de paires dans un espace courbe, et cetera, sont aussi relativement indépendantes du cadre de la théorie de cordes.

Il me semble qu'il reste intéressant d'étudier des questions difficiles sur la théorie de jauge et la gravitation quantique, dans la cadre de la théorie de cordes, et en dehors de ce cadre, et d'^etre guidé par des problèmes ouverts durs qui doivent mener à un progrès concret par incréments ou par sauts.

Iniziamo introducendo l'integrazione su manifold di Hilbert, tramite l'approssimazione dello spazio tangente alla varietà. Passiamo poi a descrivere due tecniche per regolarizzare integrali funzionali o di cammino quadratici (che presentano un laplaciano nell'azione): la regolarizzazione e rinormalizzazione tramite zeta function e il cutoff nel tempo proprio. Cerchiamo di confrontare i due diversi risultati (finiti) così ottenuti. Sussessivamente applichiamo l'integrazione funzionale agli integrali di cammino usando il formalismo della quantizzazione in qp-simboli ottenendo così un'ampiezza di probabilità. Infine iniziamo a sviluppare questi argomenti per le teorie di gauge. In particolare ci soffermeremo su vari aspetti geometrici dei campi di gauge, quali la connessione e la curvatura (usando il formalismo dei fibrati). In ultimo introduciamo l'integrazione funzionale per le teorie di gauge.

In questa tesi abbiamo studiato la quantizzazione di una teoria di gauge di forme differenziali su spazi complessi dotati di una metrica di Kaehler. La particolarità di queste teorie risiede nel fatto che esse presentano invarianze di gauge riducibili, in altre parole non indipendenti tra loro. L'invarianza sotto trasformazioni di gauge rappresenta uno dei pilastri della moderna comprensione del mondo fisico. La caratteristica principale di tali teorie è che non tutte le variabili sono effettivamente presenti nella dinamica e alcune risultano essere ausiliarie. Il motivo per cui si preferisce adottare questo punto di vista è spesso il fatto che tali teorie risultano essere manifestamente covarianti sotto importanti gruppi di simmetria come il gruppo di Lorentz. Uno dei metodi più usati nella quantizzazione delle teorie di campo con simmetrie di gauge, richiede l'introduzione di campi non fisici detti ghosts e di una simmetria globale e fermionica che sostituisce l'iniziale invarianza locale di gauge, la simmetria BRST. Nella presente tesi abbiamo scelto di utilizzare uno dei più moderni formalismi per il trattamento delle teorie di gauge: il formalismo BRST Lagrangiano di Batalin-Vilkovisky. Questo metodo prevede l'introduzione di ghosts per ogni grado di riducibilità delle trasformazioni di gauge e di opportuni “antifields" associati a ogni campo precedentemente introdotto. Questo formalismo ci ha permesso di arrivare direttamente a una completa formulazione in termini di path integral della teoria quantistica delle (p,0)-forme. In particolare esso permette di dedurre correttamente la struttura dei ghost della teoria e la simmetria BRST associata. Per ottenere questa struttura è richiesta necessariamente una procedura di gauge fixing per eliminare completamente l'invarianza sotto trasformazioni di gauge. Tale procedura prevede l'eliminazione degli antifields in favore dei campi originali e dei ghosts e permette di implementare, direttamente nel path integral condizioni di gauge fixing covarianti necessari per definire correttamente i propagatori della teoria. Nell'ultima parte abbiamo presentato un’espansione dell’azione efficace (euclidea) che permette di studiare le divergenze della teoria. In particolare abbiamo calcolato i primi coefficienti di tale espansione (coefficienti di Seeley-DeWitt) tramite la tecnica dell'heat kernel. Questo calcolo ha tenuto conto dell'eventuale accoppiamento a una metrica di background cosi come di un possibile ulteriore accoppiamento alla traccia della connessione associata alla metrica.

This thesis investigates applications of the gauge/gravity duality to strongly coupled quantum field theories. After a review of the duality and of correlators and transport in quantum systems, we present our results on second-order non-conformal hydrodynamics. We derive new Kubo formulae for five second-order transport coefficients in non-conformal relativistic fluids. We then apply these Kubo formulae to a class of non-conformal holographic fluids at infinite coupling. We find strong evidence that the Haack-Yarom identity, known to relate second-order coefficients in conformal holographic fluids at infinite coupling, continues to hold in holographic fluids without conformal symmetry: Within our class of models, we prove that it still holds when leading non-conformal corrections are taken into account, and we show numerically that it is also obeyed beyond leading order. This provides further evidence that the identity may be a universal feature of strongly coupled fluids. Next, we present our results on magnetic spin impurities in strongly correlated systems. We build a holographic two-impurity Kondo model, identifying the inter-impurity interaction as double-trace deformation. Our numerical results for the phase diagram suggest a quantum phase transition between a trivial phase with uncorrelated spins and no Kondo screening, and a non-trivial phase with anti-ferromagnetic correlations and simultaneous Kondo screening. Computing the spectrum in the single-impurity case, we observe Fano resonances, which at low temperatures we identify with the Kondo resonance.

In Part I we are dealing with effective description of Yang-Mills theories based on gauge-invarint variables. For pure Yang-Mills we study the spin-charge separation varibles. The dynamics in these variables resembles the Skyrme-Faddeev model. Thus the spin-charge separation is an important intermediate step between the fundamental Yang-Mills theory and the low-energy effective models, used to model the low-energy dynamics of gluons. Similar methods may be useful for describing the Electroweak sector of the Standard Model in terms of gauge-invariant field variables called supercurrents. We study the geometric structure of spin-charge separation in 4D Euclidean space (paper III) and elaborate onconnection with gravity toy model. Such reinterpretation gives a way to see how effective flat background metric is created in toy gravity model by studying the appearance of dimension-2 condensate in the Yang-Mills (paper IV). For Electroweak theory we derive the effective gauge-invariant Lagrangian by doing the Kaluza-Klein reduction of higher-dimensional gravity with 3-brane, thus making explicit the geometric interpretation for gauge-invariant supercurrents. The analogy is then made more precise in the framework of exact supergravity solutions. Thus, we interpret the Higgs effect as spontaneous breaking of Kaluza-Klein gauge symmetry and this leads to interpretation of Higgs field as a dilaton (papers I and II). In Part II of the thesis we study rather simple field theories, called “geometric” or “instantonic”. Their defining property is exact localization on finite-dimensional spaces – the moduli spaces of instantons. These theories allow to account exactly for non-linearity of space of fields, in this respect they go beyond the standard Gaussian perturbation theory. In paper V we show how to construct a geometric theory of chiral boson by embedding it into the geometric field theory. In Paper VI we elaborate on the simplest geometric field theory – the supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and construct new non-perturbative topological observables that have a transparent meaning both in geometric and in the Hamiltonian formalisms. In Paper VII we are motivated by making perturbations away from the simple instantonic limit. For that we need to carefully define the observables that are quadratic in momenta and develop the way to compute them in geometric framework. These correspond geometrically to bivector fields (or, in general, the polyvector fields). We investigate the local limit of polyvector fields and compare the geometric calculation with free-field approach.

This thesis is concerned with the Schrödinger representation of quantum field theory. We describe techniques for solving the Schrödinger equation which supplement the standard techniques of field theory. Our aim is to develop these to the point where they can readily be used to address problems of current interest. To this end, we study realistic models such as gauge theories coupled to dynamical fermions. For maximal generality we consider particles of all physical spins, in various dimensions, and eventually, curved spacetimes. We begin by considering Gaussian fields, and proceed to a detailed study of the Schwinger model, which is, amongst other things, a useful model for (3+1) dimensional gauge theory. One of the most important developments of recent years is a conjecture by Mal-dacena which relates supergravity and string/M-theory on anti-de-Sitter spacetimes to conformal field theories on their boundaries. This correspondence has a natural interpretation in the Schrödinger representation, so we solve the Schrödinger equation for fields of arbitrary spin in anti-de-Sitter spacetimes, and use this to investigate the conjectured correspondence. Our main result is to calculate the Weyl anomalies arising from supergravity fields, which, summed over the supermultiplets of type JIB supergravity compactified on AdS(_s) x S(^5) correctly matches the anomaly calculated in the conjecturally dual N = 4 SU{N) super-Yang-Mills theory. This is one of the few existing pieces of evidence for Maldacena's conjecture beyond leading order in TV.

We investigate semiclassical contributions to correlation functions in N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories. Our principal example is the gluino condensate, which signals the breaking of chiral symmetry, and should be exactly calculable, according to a persymmetric non-renormalisation theorem. However, the two calculational approaches previously employed, SCI and WCI methods, yield different values of the gluino condensate. We describe work undertaken to resolve this discrepancy, involving a new type of calculation in which the space is changed from R(^4) to the cylinder R(3) x S(1) This brings control over the coupling, and supersymmetry ensures that we are able to continue to large radii and extract answers relevant to R(^4). The dominant semiclassical configurations on the cylinder are all possible combinations of various types of fundamental monopoles. One specific combination is a periodic instanton, so monopoles are the analogue of the instanton partons that have been conjectured to be important at strong coupling. Other combinations provide significant contributions that are neglected in the SCI approach. Monopoles are shown to generate a superpotential that determines the quantum vacuum, where the theory is confining. The gluino condensate is calculated by summing the direct contributions from all fundamental monopoles. It is found to be in agreement with the WCI result for any classical gauge group, whereas the values for the exceptional groups have not been calculated before. The ADS superpotential, which describes the low energy dynamics of matter in a supersymmetric gauge theory, is derived using monopoles for all cases where instantons do not contribute. We report on progress made towards a two monopole calculation, in an attempt to quantify the missed contributions of the SCI method. Unfortunately, this eventually proved too complicated to be feasible.

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Realizamos um estudo da Teoria Quântica de Campos num espaço-tempo de (1 + 1)-dimensões em modelos exatamente solúveis via o formalismo de integração funcional; em que a estrutura Hamiltoniana dos modelos é construída segundo a abordagem de Dirac para sistemas vinculados. Além disso, implementamos as equações de Schwinger-Dyson e as identidades de Ward-Takahashi. Damos ênfase na estrutura de gauge do modelo de Thirring com simetria de gauge e analisamos os limites fortes das suas constantes de acoplamento
We study the quantum field theory in (1 + 1)-dimensional space-time in exactly solvable models via the functional integral formalism. The Hamiltonian structure of the models is studied following the Dirac's procedure for constrained systems and the generating functional for the Green's functions is implemented into the functional integral technique. Also, we implement the Schwinger-Dyson equations and the Ward- Takahashi identities. We made emphasize in the gauge structure of Gauged Thirring Model and study the strong limits of their coupling constants

Orientador: Bruto Max Pimentel Escobar
Coorientador: Rodolfo Alván Casana Sifuentes
Banca: Abraham Hirsz Zimerman
Banca: Veríssimo Manoel de Aquino
Resumo: Realizamos um estudo da Teoria Quântica de Campos num espaço-tempo de (1 + 1)-dimensões em modelos exatamente solúveis via o formalismo de integração funcional; em que a estrutura Hamiltoniana dos modelos é construída segundo a abordagem de Dirac para sistemas vinculados. Além disso, implementamos as equações de Schwinger-Dyson e as identidades de Ward-Takahashi. Damos ênfase na estrutura de gauge do modelo de Thirring com simetria de gauge e analisamos os limites fortes das suas constantes de acoplamento
Abstract: We study the quantum field theory in (1 + 1)-dimensional space-time in exactly solvable models via the functional integral formalism. The Hamiltonian structure of the models is studied following the Dirac's procedure for constrained systems and the generating functional for the Green's functions is implemented into the functional integral technique. Also, we implement the Schwinger-Dyson equations and the Ward- Takahashi identities. We made emphasize in the gauge structure of Gauged Thirring Model and study the strong limits of their coupling constants
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In Chapter 1, we give an introduction to the topic of open string field theory. The concepts presented include gauge invariance, tachyon condensation, as well as the star product.

In Chapter 2, we give a brief review of vacuum string field theory (VSFT), an approach to open string field theory around the stable vacuum of the tachyon. We discuss the sliver state explaining its role as projector in the space of half-string basis. We review the construction of D-brane solutions in vacuum string field theory. We show that in the sliver basis the star product correspond to a matrix product.

Using the material introduced in the previous chapters, in Chapter 3 we establish a translation dictionary between open and closed strings, starting from open string field theory. Under this correspondence, we show that (off--shell) level--matched closed string states are represented by star algebra projectors in open string field theory. As an outcome of our identification, we show that boundary states, which in closed string theory represent D-branes, correspond to the identity string field in the open string side.

We then turn to noncommutative field theories. In Chapter 4, we introduce the framework in which we will work. The tools introduced are solitons, projectors, and partial isometries.

The ideas of Chapter 4 are applied to specific examples in Chapter 5, where we present new solutions of noncommutative gauge theories in which coincident vortices expand into circular shells. As the theories are noncommutative, the naive definition of the locations of the vortices and shells is gauge-dependent, and so we define and calculate the profiles of these solutions using the gauge-invariant noncommutative Wilson lines introduced by Gross and Nekrasov. We find that charge 2 vortex solutions are characterized by two positions and a single nonnegative real number, which we demonstrate is the radius of the shell. We find that the radius is identically zero in all 2-dimensional solutions. If one considers solutions that depend on an additional commutative direction, then there are time-dependent solutions in which the radius oscillates, resembling a braneworld description of a cyclic universe. There are also smooth BIon-like space-dependent solutions in which the shell expands to infinity, describing a vortex ending on a domain wall.

In Chapter 6, we review the Fronsdal models for free high-spin fields that exhibit peculiar properties. We discuss the triplet structure of totally symmetric tensors of the free String Field Theory and their generalization to AdS background.

In Chapter 7, in the context of massless higher spin gauge fields in constant curvature spaces discussed in chapter 6, we compute the surface charges which generalize the electric charge for spin one, the color charges in Yang-Mills theories and the energy-momentum and the angular momentum for asymptotically flat gravitational fields. We show that there is a one-to-one map from surface charges onto divergence free Killing tensors. These Killing tensors are computed by relating them to a cohomology group of the first quantized BRST model underlying the Fronsdal action.

Doctorat en Sciences
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In this thesis we review the gauge/gravity duality and how it can be used to compute the thermodynamic properties and low-energy excitations of holographic quantum liquids - strongly-interacting field theories with a non-zero density of matter. We then study in detail the charge density excitations of two such liquids, the D3/D7 theory and the RN-AdS₄ theory, by computing the poles of their charge density Green's functions, and their charge density spectral functions. Although it is not a Landau Fermi liquid, the charge density excitations of the D3/D7 theory display many of the same properties as one, including a collisionless/hydrodynamic crossover as the temperature is increased. In contrast to this, the charge density (and energy density) excitations of the RN-AdS₄ theory do not share these properties but behave in a way that cannot be explained by Landau's theory of interacting fermionic quasiparticles. This is consistent with other results which indicate that this is not a Landau Fermi liquid.

Includes bibliographical references.
The thesis is organized as follows. Part I is a general introduction to LGT. The theory is discussed from first principles, so that for the interested reader no previous knowledge is required, although it is assumed that he/she will be familiar with the rudiments of relativistic quantum mechanics. Part II is a review of QCD on the lattice at finite temperature and density. Monte Carlo results and analytical methods are discussed. An attempt has been made to include most relevant data up to the end of 1987, and to update some earlier reviews existing on the subject. To facilitate an understanding of the techniques used in LGT, provision has been made in the form of a separate Chapter on Group Theory and Integration, as well as four Appendices, one of which deals with Grassmann variables and integration.

Amplitudes in theories with a massless gauge boson suffer from so-called infrared divergences where off-shell states become asymptotically close to the mass-shell in loop or phase-space momentum integrals. These singularities have been shown to cancel intricately order-by-order in the perturbative expansion. However, in order to obtain meaningful and precise predictions for physical observables, we must understand and compute such divergences to high orders. This can be accomplished by calculating webs: weighted sets of Feynman diagrams which, when exponentiated give the complete infrared singular component of the amplitude, known as the soft function. This quantity is formally equivalent to a vacuum expectation value of a product of Wilson lines. In this thesis we shall study webs correlating multiple Wilson lines, which differs from the two line case due to the possibility of non-trivial colour flows. This renders the soft function matrix valued in the space of colour flows, thus making its calculation and renormalisation non-trivial. At present, the infrared singularities of non-abelian, multiparton scattering amplitudes are known only to two loops in general kinematics, and to three loops in a simplifying kinematic limit. This thesis will thus form part of a program of work aimed at calculating and understanding the three-loop singularities in general kinematics and in doing so we aim to gain all-order insights into the pertubative structure of non-abelian gauge theories. We first specialise to a subset of webs which we have called Multiple Gluon Exchange Webs (MGEWs), which contain only those diagrams with direct exchanges of soft gauge bosons directly between Wilson lines with no intervening three- or four- boson vertices. Studing their properties allows us to construct a basis of functions which describes all examples of such webs, and we conjecture will continue to do so at any order. Furthermore, we find that the basis functions can be described by a simple, one-dimensional integral over only logarithms. We go on to compute several examples providing evidence for the validity of our basis and demonstrate the utility of the framework we have built by computing a four-loop web and providing some all-order results for particular classes of MGEW. We then consider a step beyond MGEWs, that is, webs which contain a single three-gluon vertex sub-diagram. In particular we study the simplest web in this class correlating four lines at three loops and attempt to calculate it through the numerical fitting of a physically motivated ansatz. We show that this web cannot carry kinematic dependence through conformal invariant cross ratios, which arise when connected subdiagrams correlate at least four lines. Hence, it is subject to the same constraints as MGEWs with regards to their symbol alphabet, from the physical considerations in their lightlike limit and spacelike/timelike analytic continuation. Like all other known webs satisfying such constraints, we therefore argue that it can be written in terms of sums of products of MGEW basis functions. Symmetries inherent to our parameterisation of the cusp angles, Bose symmetry and transcendental weight further constrain this ansatz, resulting in forty parameters for which we present preliminary results of a numerical fit.

In dieser Arbeit wird eine systematische Methode gegeben um die Amplituden in (skalarer) Quantenelektrodynamik und nicht-Abelsche Eichtheorien in Schwinger-parametrische Form zu schreiben. Dies wird erreicht in dem der Zähler der Feynmanregeln im Impulsraum in einem Differentialoperator umgewandelt wird. Dieser Differentialoperator wirkt dann auf den parametrichen Integranden der skalaren Theorie. Für die QED ist das am einfachsten, weil die Leibnizregel hier nicht nötig ist. Im Fall der sQED und den nicht-Abelsche Eichtheorien stehen die Beiträge der Leibnizregel in Verbindung mit 4-valente Vertices. Eine andere Eigenschaft dieser Methode ist, dass mit dem hier benutzten Renormierungsschema die Subtraktionen für 1-scale Graphen signifikante Vereinfachungen verursachen. Weiterhin wurden die Ward-Identitäte für die genannten drei Theorien studiert.
In this thesis a systematic method is given for writing the amplitudes in (scalar) quantum electrodynamics and non-Abelian gauge theories in Schwinger parametric form. This is done by turning the numerator of the Feynman rules in momentum space into a differential operator. It acts then on the parametric integrand of the scalar theory. For QED it is the most straightforward, because the Leibniz rule is not involved here. In the case of sQED and non-Abelian gauge theories, the contributions from the Leibniz rule are satisfyingly related to 4-valent vertices. Another feature of this method is that in the used renormalization scheme, the subtractions for 1-scale graphs cause significant simplifications. Furthermore, the Ward identities for mentioned three theories are studied.

When calculating scattering processes in theories involving massless gauge bosons, such as gluons in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), one encounters infrared (IR), or soft, divergences. To obtain precise predictions, it is important to have exact expressions for these IR divergences, which are present in any on-shell scattering amplitude. Due to their long wavelength, soft gluons factorise with respect to short-distance, or hard, interactions and can be captured by correlators of semi-infinite Wilson lines. The latter obey a renormalisation group equation, which gives rise to exponentiation. The exponent can be represented diagrammatically in terms of weighted sums of Feynman diagrams, called webs. A web with L external legs, each with ni gluon attachments, is denoted (n1; n2; : : : ; nL). In this way all soft gluon interactions can be described by a soft anomalous dimension. It is currently known at three loops with lightlike kinematics, and at two loops with general kinematics. Our work is a step towards a three-loop result in general kinematics. In recent years, much progress has been made in understanding the general physical properties of scattering amplitudes and in exploiting these properties to calculate specific amplitudes. At the same time, we have discovered a lot of structure underpinning the space of multiple polylogarithms, the functions in terms of which most known amplitudes can be written. General properties include analyticity, implying that scattering amplitudes are analytic functions except on certain branch cuts, and unitarity, or conservation of probability. These two properties are both exploited by unitarity cuts. Unitarity cuts provide a diagrammatic way of calculating the discontinuities of a Feynman diagram across its branch cuts, which is often simpler than calculating the diagram itself. From this discontinuity, the original function can be reconstructed by performing a dispersive integral. In this work, we extend the formalism of unitarity cuts to incorporate diagrams involving Wilson-line propagators, where the inverse propagator is linear in the loop momenta, rather than the quadratic case which has been studied before. To exploit this for the calculation of the soft anomalous dimension, we first found a suitable momentum-space IR regulator and corresponding prescription, and then derived the appropriate largest time equation (LTE). We find that, as in the case of the scalar diagrams, most terms contributing to the LTE turn out to be zero, albeit for different reasons. This simplifies calculations considerably. This formalism is then applied to the calculation of webs with non-lightlike Wilson lines. As a test, we first looked at webs that have been previously studied using other methods. It emerges that, when using the correct variables, the dispersive integrals one encounters here are trivial, illustrating why unitarity cuts are a particularly useful tool for the calculation of webs. We observe that our technique is especially efficient when looking at diagrams involving three-gluon vertices, such as the (1; 1; 1) web and the Y diagram between two lines. We then focus on three-loop diagrams connecting three or four external non-lightlike lines and involving a three-gluon vertex. We calculate the previously unknown three-loop three-leg (1; 1; 3) web in general kinematics. We obtain a result which agrees with the recently calculated lightlike limit. We also develop a technique to test our results numerically using the computer program SecDec, and we find agreement with our analytical result. The result for the (1; 1; 3) web can then be exploited to gain insight into the more complicated three-loop four-leg (1; 1; 1; 2) web. Indeed, the (1; 1; 1; 2) web reduces to the (1; 1; 3) web in a certain collinear limit. We propose an ansatz for the (1; 1; 1; 2) web in general kinematics, based on a conjectured basis of multiple polylogarithms. The result for the (1; 1; 3) web, together with the known result for the lightlike limit of the (1; 1; 1; 2) web, imposes strong constraints on the ansatz. Using these constraints, we manage to fix all but four coefficients in the ansatz. We fit the remaining coefficients numerically, but find that the quality of the fit is not good. We find possible explanations for this poor quality. This calculation is still a work in progress. Our results provide a major step towards the full calculation of the three-loop soft anomalous dimension for non-lightlike Wilson lines. We calculated new results for three-loop webs, and also deepened the understanding of webs in general. We confirm a conjecture about the functional dependence of the soft anomalous dimension on the cusp angles. We also confirm earlier findings about the symbol alphabet of the relevant functions. This confirms the remarkable simplicity found earlier in the expressions for the soft anomalous dimension.

Several different approaches to renormalization are studied. The Callan-Symanzik equation is derived and we study its beta functions. An effective potential for the Coleman-Weinberg model is studied to find that the beta function is positive and that spontaneous symmetry breaking will occur if we expand around the classical field. Lastly we renormalize a non-abelian gaugetheory to find that the beta function in QCD is negative.

Nós trabalhamos em três problemas relacionados com as teorias de gauge a temperatura finita. O primeiro discute a invariância de gauge da massa física do elétron num espaço de dimensão arbitrária a temperatura zero. Obtivemos a massa física a partir do polo do propagador fermiônico e demonstramos que a maneira usual de definir este propagador funciona para gauges covariantes mas não para gauges não covariantes. Em seguida propusemos um novo propagador e verificamos de duas formas diferentes que a massa física obtida a partir deste funciona para um gauge definido com parâmetros de controle tais que ele possa ser generalizado para as duas classes estudadas. O segundo problema é sobre a interação de n fótons num espaço de (1+1) dimensões no limite de altas temperaturas. Usando o formalismo de tempo imaginário e o modelo de Schwinger, mostramos que todos os termos das amplitudes causais retardadas com um ou mais loops têm contribuição nula. Interpretamos fisicamente este resultado e fizemos um paralelo de como ele se relaciona com a invariância CPT da teoria. A última parte é relacionada à gravitação quântica em (3+1) dimensões. Discutimos a possibilidade de obtermos as funções de n grávitons 1PI nos limites estático e de comprimento de onda longo em função de polinômios que podem ser escritos e relacionados de uma maneira simples. Para tanto, usamos as identidades de Ward e a invariância de Weyl de forma a relacionar as funções de n e (n+1) grávitons. Em seguida, utilizamos o formalismo da equação de transporte de Boltzmann para compreender melhor os resultados.
We have worked in three problems related to finite temperature gauge theory. The first one discusses the gauge invariance of the electron physical mass in an arbitrary dimension space at zero temperature. We have obtained the physical mass from the pole of the fermion propagator and we have demonstrated that the usual form to define this propagator works well for covariant gauges, but not for non covariant gauges. Then, we have proposed anew fermion propagator and we verified in two different ways that the physical mass obtained from this new one works for a gauge defined with control parameters so that it could be generalized for both classes studied. The second problem is on the n photon interaction in a space with (1+1) dimensions at hard thermal loops. Using the imaginary time formalism and the Schwinger\'s model, we have shown that all terms of the retarded causal amplitudes with one or more loops have null contribution. We have got a physical interpretation of this result and we have done a parallel of how it relates with the CPT invariance of this theory. The last one is related with quantum gravitation in (3+1) dimensions. We have discussed the possibility to obtain the 1PI n graviton functions in static and long-wavelength limits from polynomials which could be written and related in a simple manner. To this end, we used the Ward identities and the Weyl invariance to relate the n and (n+1) graviton functions. Then, we used the Boltzmann transport equation formalism to get a better understanding of the results.

We compute the electrical conductivity and shear viscosity at leading order in hot Quantum Electrodynamics. Starting from the Kubo relation for electrical conductivity and shear viscosity, we use diagrammatic methods to write down the appropriate integral equations for bosonic and fermionic effective vertices. We also show how Ward identities can be used to put constraints on these integral equations. One of our main results is an equation relating the kernels of the integral equations with functional derivatives of the full self-energy; it is similar to what is obtained with two-particle-irreducible effective action methods. However, since we use Ward identities as our starting point, gauge invariance is preserved. Using these constraints obtained from Ward identities and also power counting arguments, we select the necessary diagrams that must be resummed at leading order. This includes all non-collinear (corresponding to 2 to 2 scatterings) and collinear (corresponding to 1+N to 2+N collinear scatterings) rungs responsible for the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect. We also show the equivalence between our integral equations and the linearized Boltzmann equations of Arnold, Moore and Yaffe obtained using effective kinetic theory.

Através do formalismo de supercampos, estudamos as propriedades ultravioletas da eletrodinâmica quântica supersimétrica no espaço-tempo tridimensional. Mostramos que esta teoria é finita em todas as ordens de perturbação num calibre particular. Também apresentamos uma análise perturbativa do modelo de Chern-Simons supersimétrico acoplado a um supercampo escalar complexo. Com isso, estudamos a quebra da simetria de calibre U(1) e calculamos as primeiras correções quânticas à ação efetiva na fase quebrada. Mostramos que a renormalização da equação de gap é suficiente para assegurar a renormalizabilidade do modelo em um laço de aproximação. Nós também verificamos que quando acoplado a um supercampo escalar sem massa, o modelo de Chern-Simons supersimétrico apresenta geração dinâmica de massa, um mecanismo que em D = 2 + 1 dimensões do espaço-tempo, diferentemente do modelo não-supersimétrico quadridimensional (Coleman- Weinberg), só ocorre a partir da aproximação de dois laços. Alguns outros resultados relacionados são também incluídos nesta tese, tais como um estudo do modelo CP**(N-1) não-comutativo supersimétrico e a equivalência entre os modelos de Maxwell-Chern-Simons e Auto-Dual supersimétricos. Em todo nosso trabalho, supersimetria é manifesta.
Within the superfield formalism, we study the ultraviolet properties of the three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics. The theory is shown to be finite at all loops orders in a particular gauge. We also present a perturbative analysis of the supersymmetric Chern-Simons model coupled to a Higgs field. We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the U(1) gauge symmetry and evaluate the first quantum corrections to the effective action in the broken phase. We show that the infinite renormalization of the gap equation is enough to ensure the renormalizability of the model at the first loop level. We also verify that when coupled to a massless scalar superfield, the supersymmetric Chern-Simons model present dynamical generation of mass, a mechanism that in D = 2 + 1 spacetime dimensions, differently from the four-dimensional non-supersymetric model (Coleman-Weinberg), only occurs from two-loop order. Some other related results are also enclosed in this thesis, such as a study of the supersymmetric noncommutative CP**(N-1) model and the equivalence between Maxwell-Chern-Simons and Self-Dual supersymmetric models. In whole work, supersymmetry is manifest.

Recent efforts to classify off-shell representations of supersymmetry without a central charge have focused upon directed, supermultiplet graphs of hypercubic topology known as Adinkras. These encodings of Super Poincare algebras, depict every generator of a chosen supersymmetry as a node-pair transformtion between fermionic / bosonic component fields. This research thesis is a culmination of investigating novel diagrammatic sums of gauge quotients by supersymmetric images of other Adinkras, and the correlated building of field theoretic worldline Lagrangians to accommodate both classical and quantum venues. We find Ref [40], that such gauge quotients do not yield other stand alone or ”proper” Adinkras as afore sighted, nor can they be decomposed into supermultiplet sums, but are rather a connected ”Adinkraic network”. Their iteration, analogous to Weyl's construction for producing all finite-dimensional unitary representations in Lie algebras, sets off chains of algebraic paradigms in discrete-graph and continuous-field variables, the links of which feature distinct, supersymmetric Lagrangian templates. Collectively, these Adiankraic series air new symbolic genera for equation to phase moments in Feynman path integrals. Guided in this light, we proceed by constructing Lagrangians actions for the N = 3 supermultiplet YI /(iDI X) for I = 1, 2, 3, where YI and X are standard, Salam-Strathdee superfields: YI fermionic and X bosonic. The system, bilinear in the component fields exhibits a total of thirteen free parameters, seven of which specify Zeeman-like coupling to external background (magnetic) fluxes. All but special subsets of this parameter space describe aperiodic oscillatory responses, some of which are found to be surprisingly controlled by the golden ratio, ? ? 1.61803, Ref [52]. It is further determined that these Lagrangians allow an N = 3 ? 4 supersymmetric extension to the Chiral-Chiral and Chiral-twisted- Chiral multiplet, while a subset admits two inequivalent such extensions. In a natural progression, a continuum of observably and usefully inequivalent, finite-dimensional off-shell representations of worldline N = 4 extended supersymmetry are explored, that are variate from one another but in the value of a tuning parameter, Ref [53]. Their dynamics turns out to be nontrivial already when restricting to just bilinear Lagrangians. In particular, we find a 34-parameter family of bilinear Lagrangians that couple two differently tuned supermultiplets to each other and to external magnetic fluxes, where the explicit parameter dependence is unremovable by any field redefinition and is therefore observable. This offers the evaluation of X-phase sensitive, off-shell path integrals with promising correlations to group product decompositions and to deriving source emergences of higher-order background flux-forms on 2-dimensional manifolds, the stacks of which comprise space-time volumes. Application to nonlinear sigma models would naturally follow, having potential use in M- and F- string theories.
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Nesta tese estudamos possíveis extensões do modelo CPN-1 em (2+1) dimensões. Provamos que quando tomado na representação fundamental à esquerda ele é renormalizável e não possui divergências infravermelhas perigosas. O mesmo não ocorre se o campo principal . Mostramos que a inclusão de férmions, minimamente acoplados ao campo de calibre, traz alguma melhoria no comportamento das divergências infravermelhas no setor de calibre em ordem dominante em 1/N. Discutimos também a invariância de calibre no procedimento de renormalização.
In this thesis investigate possible extensions of the (2+1) dimensional CPN-1 model to the noncommutative space. Up to leading nontrivial order of 1/N, we prove that the model restricted to the left fundamental representation is renormalizable and does not have dangerous infrared divergences. By contrast, IF the pricipal Field transforms in accord with the adjoint representation, linearly divergent, nonintegrable singularities are present in the two point function of the auxiliary gauge Field and also in the leading correction to the self-energy of the Field. It is showed that the inclusion of fermionic matter, minimally coupled to the gauge Field, ameliorates this behavior by eliminating infrared divergences in the gauge sector at the leading 1/N order. Gauge invariance of the renormalization is also discussed.

Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de la physique mathématique des interactions fondamentales. Elle porte sur l'étude des théories de champs qui décrivent les particules élémentaires. En particulier, les théories de champs de spin élevé (plus grand ou égal à 2) sont analysées. Mis à part pour le graviton, vecteur supposé des interactions gravitationnelles, il n'y a aucun indice que ces champs soient présents dans la nature. Cependant leur existence n'est pas impossible théoriquemement et ils interviennent dans la théorie des cordes, candidate pour une théorie quantique d'unification de toutes les forces fondamentales y compris la gravitation. En effet, les modes de vibration de la corde élémentaire sont décrits par des champs de spin élevé.  

Dans ce travail, la dimension de l'espace-temps est laissée arbitraire, ce qui entraine la possibilité d'avoir plusieurs sortes (= représentations) de champs différentes ayant le même spin.

Le premier aspect traité dans cette thèse concerne les dualités, symétries qui relient entre elles plusieurs théories. Il est montré que différentes représentations de champs de spin élevé sont duales au niveau de l'action. En particulier, en dimension quatre, la dualité échange la composante électrique et la composante magnétique d'un même champs. Cette propriété est ensuite utilisée pour introduire des sources magnétiques pour les champs de spin élevé. La construction généralise les travaux de Dirac sur le couplage au champ électromagnétique de monopoles magnétiques. Une condition de quantification est également dérivée pour des quantités conservées, qui généralise la condition de quantification de Dirac pour la charge électrique en présence de monopoles magnétiques.

La deuxième partie de la thèse est consacrée aux interactions de champs de spin élevé. L'analyse est effectuée dans le formalisme de champs et d'antichamps dévelopé par Batalin et Vilkovsky. Elle repose sur la procédure de déformation de l'équation maîtresse mise au point par Henneaux et Barnich. Les champs étudiés sont les champs de spin deux exotiques (c-à-d différents du graviton) ainsi que les champs de spin trois complètement symétriques. Pour les premiers, il est prouvé que toutes les interactions doivent être abélienne. Il n'y a donc pas d'équivalent de la théorie d'Einstein pour ces champs. Dans le cas des champs de spin trois, plusieurs vertex cohérents au premier ordre sont obtenus.

In this thesis, we consider two aspects of higher-spin gauge field theories: dualities and interactions.

The first aspect is related to the presence of dualities, i.e. 'hidden' symmetries among gauge field theories. Do two higher-spin theories corresponding to different irreducible representations of the Poincaré group have the same physical content. Duality relations were already known at the level of the equations of motion and Bianchi identities, here we prove (in some cases) that these dualities hold also at the level of the action. As a consequence, the dual theories are formally equivalent. For example, in five space-time dimensions the spin-two theory of Pauli and Fierz is dual to the theory of a mixed-symmetry spin-two field written by Curtright.

In four space-time dimensions the duality exchanges the electric and magnetic degrees of freedom of the field. This property leads us to introduce external magnetic sources for higher-spin fields, thereby generalizing to arbitrary spin the work of Dirac on the coupling of magnetic monopoles to the electromagnetic field. Similarly to the quantization condition on the product of the electric and magnetic charges for electromagnetism, there is a quantization condition on the product of conserved ``electric' and ``magnetic' charges for higher spins.

The second aspect of higher-spin gauge field theories that is analysed in this thesis is the problem of interactions. Self-interactions of exotic spin-two gauge fields are studied, as well as self-interactions of completely symmetric spin-three fields. This is done in the BRST field-antifield formalism developped by Batalin and Vilkovisky, using the technique of consistent deformations of the master equation proposed by Barnich and Henneaux.

Doctorat en sciences, Spécialisation physique
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Cette thèse présente une étude détaillée de la structure de théories appelées GFT ("Group Field Theory" en anglais),à travers le prisme de la renormalisation. Ce sont des théories des champs issues de divers travaux en gravité quantique, parmi lesquels la gravité quantique à boucles et les modèles de matrices ou de tenseurs. Elles sont interprétées comme desmodèles d'espaces-temps quantiques, dans le sens où elles génèrent des amplitudes de Feynman indexées par des triangulations,qui interpolent les états spatiaux de la gravité quantique à boucles. Afin d'établir ces modèles comme des théories deschamps rigoureusement définies, puis de comprendre leurs conséquences dans l'infrarouge, il est primordial de comprendre leur renormalisation. C'est à cette tâche que cette thèse s'attèle, grâce à des méthodes tensorielles développées récemment,et dans deux directions complémentaires. Premièrement, de nouveaux résultats sur l'expansion asymptotique (en le cut-off) des modèles colorés de Boulatov-Ooguri sont démontrés, donnant accès à un régime non-perturbatif dans lequel une infinité de degrés de liberté contribue. Secondement, un formalisme général pour la renormalisation des GFTs dites tensorielles (TGFTs) et avec invariance de jauge est mis au point. Parmi ces théories, une TGFT en trois dimensions et basée sur le groupe de jauge SU(2) se révèle être juste renormalisable, ce qui ouvre la voie à l'application de ce formalisme à la gravité quantique
In this thesis, we study the structure of Group Field Theories (GFTs) from the point of view of renormalization theory.Such quantum field theories are found in approaches to quantum gravity related to Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) on the one hand,and to matrix models and tensor models on the other hand. They model quantum space-time, in the sense that their Feynman amplitudes label triangulations, which can be understood as transition amplitudes between LQG spin network states. The question of renormalizability is crucial if one wants to establish interesting GFTs as well-defined (perturbative) quantum field theories, and in a second step connect them to known infrared gravitational physics. Relying on recently developed tensorial tools, this thesis explores the GFT formalism in two complementary directions. First, new results on the large cut-off expansion of the colored Boulatov-Ooguri models allow to explore further a non-perturbative regime in which infinitely many degrees of freedom contribute. The second set of results provide a new rigorous framework for the renormalization of so-called Tensorial GFTs (TGFTs) with gauge invariance condition. In particular, a non-trivial 3d TGFT with gauge group SU(2) is proven just-renormalizable at the perturbative level, hence opening the way to applications of the formalism to (3d Euclidean) quantum gravity

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Nesta tese estudaremos a eletrodinâmica quântica de Podolsky em equilíbrio termodinâmico no formalismo de Matsubara-Fradkin. Uma vez que a eletrodinâmica de Podolsky é uma teoria de gauge, quantizar-la-emos com o método do campo auxiliar de Nakanishi, que é uma técnica invariante de Lorentz. Mostraremos que no caso do campo de Podolsky livre uma correção à lei de Stefan-Boltzmann é esperada e utilizaremos dados da radiação cósmica de fundo em microondas para limitar os possíveis valores do parâmetro de Podolsky. Investigaremos, também, as equações de DysonSchwinger-Fradkin e as identidades de Ward-Fradkin-Takahashi da teoria em equilíbrio termodinâmico
In this thesis we study Podolsky quantum electrodynamics in thermodynamic equilibrium via Matsubara-Fradkin formalism. Since Podolsky electrodynamics is a gauge theory, we quantize it using Nakanishi’s auxiliary field method, which is a Lorentz invariant procedure. For the case of free Podolsky field we show that a correction to the Stefan-Boltzmann law is expected and we set a thermodynamical limit for the Podolsky parameter using data from the cosmic microwave background radiation. We also study the DysonSchwinger-Fradkin equations and the Ward-Fradkin-Takahashi identities of the theory in thermodynamic equilibrium

Orientador: Bruto Max Pimental Escobar
Banca: Dionísio Bazeia
Banca: Ademir Santana
Banca: Dmitry Gitman
Banca: Josif Frenkel
Resumo: Nesta tese estudaremos a eletrodinâmica quântica de Podolsky em equilíbrio termodinâmico no formalismo de Matsubara-Fradkin. Uma vez que a eletrodinâmica de Podolsky é uma teoria de gauge, quantizar-la-emos com o método do campo auxiliar de Nakanishi, que é uma técnica invariante de Lorentz. Mostraremos que no caso do campo de Podolsky livre uma correção à lei de Stefan-Boltzmann é esperada e utilizaremos dados da radiação cósmica de fundo em microondas para limitar os possíveis valores do parâmetro de Podolsky. Investigaremos, também, as equações de DysonSchwinger-Fradkin e as identidades de Ward-Fradkin-Takahashi da teoria em equilíbrio termodinâmico
Abstract: In this thesis we study Podolsky quantum electrodynamics in thermodynamic equilibrium via Matsubara-Fradkin formalism. Since Podolsky electrodynamics is a gauge theory, we quantize it using Nakanishi's auxiliary field method, which is a Lorentz invariant procedure. For the case of free Podolsky field we show that a correction to the Stefan-Boltzmann law is expected and we set a thermodynamical limit for the Podolsky parameter using data from the cosmic microwave background radiation. We also study the DysonSchwinger-Fradkin equations and the Ward-Fradkin-Takahashi identities of the theory in thermodynamic equilibrium
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Streuamplituden der Quantenchromodynamik (QCD), N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills-Theorie (SYM-Theorie) und der sechsdimensionalen N = (1, 1) SYM-Theorie werden untersucht, mit einem Fokus auf die Symmetrien und Relationen zwischen den Streuamplituden dieser Eichtheorien auf dem Baum-Niveau. Die Baum-Niveau- und Ein-Schleifen-Farbzerlegung beliebiger QCD-Amplituden in primitive Amplituden wird bestimmt und Identitäten hergeleitet, welche den Nullraum unter den primitiven Amplituden aufspannen. Anschließend wird bewiesen, dass alle farbgeordneten Baum-Niveau-Amplituden der masselosen QCD aus der N = 4 SYM-Theorie erhalten werden können. Analytische Formeln für alle für die QCD relevanten N = 4 SYM-Amplituden werden bestimmt und die Effizienz und Genauigkeit der numerischen Auswertung der analytischen Formeln für farbgeordnete QCD-Baum-Niveau-Amplituden mit einer effizienten numerischen Implementierung der Berends-Giele-Rekursion verglichen. Die Symmetrien der massive Amplituden auf dem Coulomb-Zweig der N = 4 SYM-Theorie werden hergeleitet. Diese können durch eine dimensionale Reduktion der masselosen Baum-Niveau-Amplituden der sechsdimensionalen N = (1, 1) SYM-Theory erhalten werden. Darüber hinaus wird bezeigt, wie es mit Hilfe einer numerischen Implementierung der BCFW-Rekursion möglich ist analytische Formeln für die Baum-Niveau-Superamplituden der N = (1, 1) SYM-Theory zu erhalten und die Möglichkeit eines Uplifts der masselose Baum-Niveau-Amplituden der N = 4 SYM-Theory untersucht. Schließlich wird eine Alternative zur dimensionalen Regularisierung der N = 4 SYM-Theorie untersucht. Die Infrarotdivergenzen werden hierbei durch Massen regularisiert, die durch einen Higgs-Mechanismus erhalten wurden. Die korrespondierende Stringtheorie-Beschreibung deutet auf eine exakte duale konforme Symmetrie der Streuamplituden hin. Durch explizite Rechnungen wird dies bestätigt und Vorteile des Regulators werden demonstriert.
We study scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), N = 4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory and the six-dimensional N = (1, 1) SYM theory, focusing on the symmetries of and relations between the tree-level scattering amplitudes in these three gauge theories. We derive the tree level and one-loop color decomposition of an arbitrary QCD amplitude into primitive amplitudes. Furthermore, we derive identities spanning the null space among the primitive amplitudes. We prove that every color ordered tree amplitude of massless QCD can be obtained from gluon-gluino amplitudes of N = 4 SYM theory. Furthermore, we derive analytical formulae for all gluon-gluino amplitudes relevant for QCD. We compare the numerical efficiency and accuracy of evaluating these closed analytic formulae for color ordered QCD tree amplitudes to a numerically efficient implementation of the Berends-Giele recursion. We derive the symmetries of massive tree amplitudes on the coulomb branch of N = 4 SYM theory, which in turn can be obtained from N = (1, 1) SYM theory by dimensional reduction. Furthermore, we investigate the tree amplitudes of N = (1, 1) SYM theory and explain how analytical formulae can be obtained from a numerical implementation of the supersymmetric BCFW recursion relation and investigate a potential uplift of the massless tree amplitudes of N = 4 SYM theory. Finally we study an alternative to dimensional regularization of N = 4 SYM theory. The infrared divergences are regulated by masses obtained from a Higgs mechanism. The corresponding string theory set-up suggests that the amplitudes have an exact dual conformal symmetry. We confirm this expectation and illustrate the calculational advantages of the massive regulator by explicit calculations.

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O objetivo desta dissertação é apresentar uma conexão entre a condição de Gribov-Zwanziger para o gap de massa e o mecanismo de quebra espontânea de simetria, através do estudo de um operador composto introduzido numa maneira localizada. Para tornar esta relação mais clara, um modelo é apresentado e alguns aspectos quânticos são discutidos.
The aim of this work is to present a connection between the Gribov-Zwanziger condition for the mass gap and the spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, by studying a composite operator introduced in a localized form. In order to clarify these relationship a toy model is presented and some quantum aspects are discussed.

The aim of this project is to understand the structure of the Standard Model of the particle physics. Therefore quantum field theories (QFT) are studied in the both cases of abelian and non-abelian gauge theories i.e. quantum electrodynamics (QED), quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and electroweak interaction are reviewed. The solution to the mass problem arising in these theories i.e. spontaneous symmetry breaking is also studied.
Syftet med detta projekt är att förstå strukturen för partikelfysikens standardmodell. Därför studeras kvantfältsteorier (QFT) i båda fallen av abelska och icke-abelska gaugeteorier, dvs kvantelektrodynamik (QED), kvantkromodynamik (QCD) och elektrosvag växelverkan granskas. Lösningen på massproblemet som uppstår i dessa teorier, dvs. spontant symmetribrott studeras också.

O Modelo Padrão (MP) da física de partículas fornece uma descrição extremamente bem sucedida de todos os dados experimentais atuais. No entanto, temos razões para esperar que ele não seja válido até escalas de energia arbitrariamente altas. No MP a massa do bóson de Higgs é quadraticamente sensível a correções radiativas, sofrendo de grandes problemas de ajuste fino. Isso gera o chamado problema da hierarquia de gauge, cuja solução natural requer nova física na escala TeV. O MP também não fornece nenhuma explicação para a grande hierarquia de massas e ângulos de mistura dos férmions. Os problemas de hierarquia podem ser resolvidos naturalmente em teorias com uma dimensão extra curva. No entanto, a sua versão mais simples viola sabor a nível árvore, em conflito com os dados. Nesta tese investigaremos modelos quadridimensionais que descrevem a física na escala TeV obtidos da discretização de teorias em cinco dimensões no espaço AdS5, segundo o procedimento de desconstrução dimensional. As hierarquias de gauge e das massas dos férmions são geradas naturalmente como no modelo extra-dimensional, satisfazendo ainda os vínculos de sabor e de precisão eletrofraca. Estudaremos também um modelo desconstruído em que o Higgs é um pseudo bóson de Nambu-Goldstone, a fim de obter um Higgs naturalmente leve e dinamicamente localizado
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides an extremely successful description of all current experimental data. However, we have reasons to expect that it cannot be valid up to arbitrarily high energy scales. In the SM the Higgs boson mass is quadratically sensitive to radiative corrections and, hence, suffers from a severe fine-tunning problem. This creates the so-called gauge hierarchy problem, the natural solution of which requires new physics at the TeV scale. The SM also doesnt provide any explanation for the large hierarchy of fermion masses and mixing angles. The hierarchy problems can be naturally solved in theories with a warped extra dimension. However, their simplest version violates flavor at tree level, conflicting with experimental data. In this thesis we investigate four dimensional models that describe physics at the TeV scale obtained from a coarse discretization of five dimensional theories in AdS5 space, by the dimensional deconstruction procedure. The gauge as well as the fermion mass hierarchies are naturally generated in the same manner as in the extra-dimensional model, while also satisfying bonds from flavor physics and precision electroweak data. We also study a deconstructed model in which the Higgs is a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, with the motivation of obtaining a naturally light and localized Higgs.

The study of supersymmetry has led us to a better understanding of field theories, specially in the strong coupling regime. In this thesis we have tried to show this through several examples. These are: - The first of these examples has been the application of localization techniques in supersymmetric theories. Specifically, we have used the partition function of N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory with gauge group U(N) and 2Nf flavors. To regularize the theory, it is necessary to make the computation in a three sphere whose radius, R, serves as an IR regulator which can be taken to infinity at the end of the computation. Once we have the exact partition function in terms of a matrix integral, we can solve the integral by means of a saddle-point approximation. This approximation becomes exact in the large N limit. The saddle-point equation can be solved exactly and in the decompactification limit it shows different phases depending on the value of the 't Hooft coupling. We have also computed the free energy and the vacuum expectation value of a Wilson loop for a big circle of the three sphere. Both of them show discontinuities in their derivatives, in particular, the discontinuity in the free energy appears in the third derivative and thus, both phase transitions are third order. - Other application that we have seen consists of the use of the gauge/gravity duality. In particular, starting from the gravity dual to N=1 super Yang-Mills, proposed by Maldacena and Núñez, we have reviewed how to add flavors (quarks) to this theory, without mass first and with mass later. We have also seen how to extract information about the field theory from these gravity duals, we have paid special attention to how the beta-function of the field theory dual is obtained from the gravity background proposed by Conde, Gaillard and Ramallo, dual to N=1 super Yang-Mills field theory with Nf massive flavors and a quartic superpotential. The main result from the point of view of the field theory is that, in the case Nf=2N, the beta-function shows a non-trivial UV fixed point, which hints on possible IR fixed point as proposed by Seiberg in the conformal window picture. No evidence of non-trivial fixed points is found for Nf different from 2N. - Again, in the context of the gauge/gravity duality, we have studied how to generate new supergravity solutions applying T-duality and how this affects the G-structures that describe the supersymmetry of these solutions. We have applied T-duality to the IIB supergravity solution of Klebanov and Witten with flavors. The supersymmetry of these backgrounds can be described by an SU(3)-structure and an SU(2)-structure before and after T-dualizing, respectively. - Finally, we have presented an N=1 supersymmetric model that exhibits a superconducting phase transition. This model is based on a quartic Kähler potential for a chiral multiplet and no superpotential. The main difference with standard superconductivity is that the phase transition becomes first order rather than second order. Another difference is that, as it is typical in supersymmetric theories, the dependence on the cut-off is softened in our model.
El estudio de supersimetría nos ha permitido un mejor entendimiento de las teorías de campos, especialmente en el régimen de acoplamiento fuerte. En esta tesis hemos tratado de mostrar esto a través de varios ejemplos. A saber: - Primero hemos mostrado cómo calcular de manera exacta con técnicas de localización la función de partición de la teoría de Chern-Simons supersimétrica N=2 con grupo gauge U(N) y 2Nf sabores en una tres esfera. Una vez que tenemos la función de partición exacta en términos de una integral de matrices, podemos resolverla por medio de la aproximación de punto silla. Esta aproximación se vuelve exacta cuando tomamos el límite de N grande. En el límite de descompactificación calculamos la energía libre y el valor de expectación de un lazo de Wilson correspondiente a un círculo máximo de la tres-esfera, mostrando transiciones de fase de tercer orden. - Otra aplicación ha consistido en el uso de la dualidad gravedad/gauge. Hemos revisado como construir una solución de supergravedad dual a la teoría N=1 super Yang-Mills con Nf sabores masivos y un superpotencial cuártico. El principal resultado desde el punto de vista de la teoría de campos que corresponde a dicha solución, consiste en que, en el caso Nf=2N, la función beta exhibe un punto fijo UV no trivial que da lugar a indicios acerca de un punto fijo IR adicional tal y como propone Seiberg en su propuesta de la ventana conforme. - También en el contexto de la dualidad gravedad/gauge hemos estudiado cómo generar nuevas soluciones de supergravedad por medio de la aplicación de T-dualidad a la solución de supergravedad de Klebanov y Witten con sabores. La supersimetría de estas soluciones pueden ser descritas en términos de una SU(3) estructura antes de T-dualizar, o una SU(2)-estructura, después de T-dualizar. - Finalmente, hemos presentado un modelo supersimétrico que exhibe una transición de fase superconductora basado en un potencial de Kähler cuártico para un multiplete quiral y sin superpotencial. Encontramos dos diferencias con superconductores usuales: nuestro modelo exhibe una transición de fase de primer orden, en lugar de ser de segundo orden, y la dependencia con la energía de corte es más suave.

Orientador: Jayme Vaz Jr
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataglin
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Resumo: Investigamos generalizações das álgebras de Clifford (ACs) e suas vastas aplicações na Física. Classificamos o mais novo candidato à descrição da matéria escura como um campo espinorial bandeira, que pertence à classe 5 proposta por Lounesto, de acordo com os valores assumidos pelos seus covariantes bilineares. Decompomos a AC em partes a pares e ímpares relativas a uma dada a graduação automórfica interna, além de descrever suas diversas consequências na decomposição de operadores que agem sobre a álgebra exterior e sobre a AC. Além de escrever a equação de Dirac no contexto dessa decomposição, estendemos os resultados conhecidos sobre uma partícula-teste nas vizinhanças de um buraco negro de Schwarzschild para um buraco negro de Reissner-Nordstrom. Introduzimos as ACs estendidas, construídas sobre duas cópias (quiral e aquiral) de um espaço vetorial de dimensão finita munido de uma métrica de assinatura (p, q). Formulamos a AC sobre uma cópia quiral do contraespaço, mostrando propriedades surpreendentes, tais como: a indefinição do elemento de volume do contraespaço sob o produto regressivo, com a possibilidade de ele ser um escalar ou pseudoescalar, dependendo da dimensão do espaço vetorial; e o fato de que a co-cadeia de de Rham do operador codiferencial ser formada por uma sequência de subespaços homogêneos da álgebra exterior subsequentemente quirais e aquirais. Dessa maneira provamos que a álgebra exterior sobre o espaço e aquela construída sobre o contraespaço são apenas pseudo-duais ao introduzirmos quiralidade. A super álgebra de Poincaré é obtida a partir da introdução de algumas estruturas algébricas sobre o espaço euclidiano R3, a partir da utilização de spinors puros e do Princípio da Trialidade juntamente com sua generalização. Introduzimos os octonions no contexto das ACs e definimos unidades octoniônicas parametrizadas por elementos arbitrários, mas fixos, de uma AC sobre R0,7 e também produtos octoniônicos entre multivetores, além de generalizarmos as identidades de Moufang para esse formalismo. O Modelo Padrão das partículas elementares é rediscutido nesse contexto, além de obtermos uma Teoria de Calibre não-associativa em Cl0,7 , onde o campo espinorial é dado pela soma direta de um quark e um lépton. Finalmente introduzimos as isotopias, associativas e não-associativas, das ACs e em particular a simetria de sabor SU(6) dos quarks se apresenta como uma simetria exata dentro do contexto do levantamento isotópico da AC CL12. Bárions e mésons também são descritos nesse contexto
Abstract: We investigate Clifford algebras (ACs) generalizations and their wide applications in Physics. The candidate for the description of the dark matter is classified as a agpole spinor field, that is in the class 5 spinors proposed by Lounesto according to his spinor field classification by the values assumed by their bilinear covariants. The AC is split in a-even and a-odd components, related to a given inner automorphic a-grading, besides describing various consequences of this decomposition in the splitting of operators acting on the exterior and Clifford algebras. Besides writing the Dirac equation in the spacetime splitting context, we extend the well known results concerning a spinning test particle in a Schwarzschild black hole neighboorhood to a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. We alsointroduce the extended ACs associated with two copies (chiral and achiral) of a finite-dimensional vector space endowed with a metric of signature (p, q). ACs are formulated on a chiral copy of the counterspace, where we show astounding and astonishing properties such as: the de Rham co-chain associated with the codifferential operator is constituted by a sequence of exterior algebra homogeneous subspaces subsequently chiral and achiral. Thus we prove thatthe exterior algebra on the space and the exterior algebra constructed on the counterspace are pseudoduals, if we introduce chirality. The Poincaré superalgebra is obtained from the introduction of some algebraic structures on the Euclidean space R3 , via the pure spinor formalism and the triality principle and its generalization. Octonions are introduced in thecontext of ACs and we define AC-parametrized octonionic units, besides generalizing Moufang identities in this context. The Standard Model of elementary particles is revisited in the octonionic context and we also obtain a gauge theory using the new octonionic products introduced, where a spinor field describes the direct sum of a quark and a lepton. Finally we introduce associative and non-associative isotopies of ACs. In particular we present the avor quark symmetry SU(6) as an exact symmetry in the Cl12 isotopic lifting context. Barions and mesons are also described via isotopic lifting of ACs
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Fisica-Matematica
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The holographic duality between gauge theories and string theories has opened a new door to access the strongly coupled regime of quantum field theories and offers, at the same time, a completely new way to understand the elusive nature of quantum gravity and the non-perturbative regime of string theory. After almost two decades of research, the current status of the correspondence is that of a solid conjecture that has passed a great number of nontrivial tests, to the point that it is generally believed to be true. The present thesis includes a collection of four papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, all of them in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence and with a particular focus on studying gauge theories by inserting heavy external probes, following prescribed trajectories and transforming under various representations of the gauge group. Each of these works reports a little step forward in the development of new strategies for capturing correc- tions beyond the leading order as well as in using exact results available in quantum field theory in order to derive exact expressions for other relevant observables and new non-trivial string theory predictions. In chapters 2 and 3 we use the AdS/CFT correspondence in order to compute several observables of N = 4 SU (N ) super Yang-Mills theory related with the presence of an infinitely heavy particle transforming in the k-symmetric or the k-antisymmetric representations of the gauge group and following particular trajectories. This is achieved by means of adding certain D-brane probes with electric fluxes turned on and reaching the boundary of AdS on the very trajectories followed by the dual particles. For the antisymmetric case we consider D5-branes reaching the boundary at arbitrary time-like trajectories, while for the symmetric case, we consider a D3-brane fully embedded in AdS5 that reaches the boundary at either a straight line or a hyperbola. This generalizes previous computations that used fundamental strings, which are claimed to be dual to infinitely heavy point particles transforming in the fundamental. Besides the intrinsic interest of these generalizations, our main motivation in studying them is that, as it happens in the computation of certain Wilson loops, the results obtained with D3-branes give an all- orders series of corrections in 1/N to the leading order result for the fundamental representation obtained by means of fundamental strings. It is important to remark, one more time, that we can not really extrapolate up to k = 1, since this is beyond the regime of validity of the supergravity approximation. Therefore, it is not justified a priori to set k = 1 in our results. Nevertheless, when compared with the exact results available, we find that the D3-brane computation reproduces the correct result in the large N , λ limit and with k = 1. This better than expected performance suggests the exciting possibility that certain D3-branes with electric fluxes might capture correctly all the 1/N corrections, but it is fair to say that we still lack of a precise string-theoretic argument to prove this.
Durant les darreres dues dècades ha aparegut un nou paradigma que permet reformular completament certes teories quàntiques de camps i ens aporta una nova eina que ens permet realitzar càlculs analítics en règims fins ara inaccessibles. Aquest nou paradigma sorgeix del descobriment d’una correspondència o dualitat exacta entre dues teories aparentment molt diferents. Per una banda de la dualitat tenim certes teories quàntiques de camps, com per exemple les denominades teories de Yang-Mills, similars a les teories del Model Estàndard. Aquestes descriuen partícules interactuant en un espai pla d-dimensional sense gravetat. A l’altra banda de la dualitat trobem teories que inclouen la gravetat, com ara la Teoria de la Relativitat General d’Einstein o les seves generalitzacions en el marc de la Teoria de Cordes. Aquestes teories de gravetat estan definides sobre espais de dimensió més alta que d, i és per això que aquesta correspondència rep sovint l’adjectiu de “hologràfica”. Depenent del context, aquesta rep el nom de dualitat gauge/gravetat, dualitat gauge/corda o AdS/CFT (acrònim anglès per la correspondència particular entre teoria de cordes a espais d’Anti-de Sitter i teories de camps conformes). Fins ara, una de les correspondències més ben estudiades i que comprenem millor (i sobre la qual es centra la present tesi) és la dualitat entre la teoria quatre-dimensional N = 4 super Yang-Mills amb grup de gauge SU (N ) i teoria de cordes tipus IIB en un espai deu-dimensional AdS5 × S5 . Aquesta tesi presenta una recopilació de quatre articles publicats en revistes científiques d’alt impacte, tots ells en el camp de la correspondència AdS/CFT i centrats en l’estudi de teories gauge supersimètriques mitjançant la inserció de partícules de prova infinitament massives, seguint trajectòries determinades i transformant sota diverses representacions del grup de gauge. Cadascun d’aquests treballs aporta un pas endavant en el desenvolupament de noves estratègies per calcular correccions més enllà del primer ordre així com en l’ús de resultats exactes accessibles a la Teoria Quàntica de Camps per tal de derivar expressions exactes d’altres observables rellevants de la teoria i realitzar prediccions de Teoria de Cordes.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-262).
In this thesis, we present several works done in last three years. They include three directions in the string theory. In the first direction, we use the brane setup to find mirror pairs of SO(n) and Sp(k) gauge groups for N = 4 three-dimensional gauge field theories. To reach this result, we analyze carefully the s-configuration and predict a nontrivial string dynamics, i.e., the splitting of branes on the orientifold planes. In the second direction, we develop the "inverse algorithm" and use it to get nontrivial world volume theories of D-branes probing more exotic singularities. In this process, we find the "toric duality" which relates different phases of D-brane probe theories. We realize later that the toric duality is an example of the more powerful Seiberg-duality so these different phases are related by the Seiberg duality. In the third direction, by using numerical calculation we get a strong evidence to support the second conjecture of Sen's three conjectures. We show that if the identity field is BRST exact state around the tachyon vacuum, the open string spectrum will decouple from the physics and leave only the closed string spectrum.
by Bo Feng.
Ph.D.

The study of ultracold atoms constitutes one of the hottest areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum optics. The experimental and theoretical achievements in the last three decades in the control and manipulation of quantum matter at macroscopic scales lead to the so called third quantum revolution. Concretely, the recent advances in the studies of ultracold gases in optical lattices are particularly impressive. The very precise control of the diverse parameters of the ultracold gas samples in optical lattices provides a system that can be reshaped and adjusted to mimic the behaviour of other many-body systems: ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices act as genuine quantum simulators. The understanding of gauge theories is essential for the description of the fundamental interactions of our physical world. In particular, gauge theories describe one of the most important class of systems which can be addressed with quantum simulators. The main objective of the thesis is to study the implementation of quantum simulators for gauge theories with ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices. First, we analyse a system composed of a non-interacting ultracold gas in a 2D lattice under the action of an exotic and external gauge field related to the Heisenberg-Weyl gauge group. We describe a novel method to simulate the gauge degree of freedom, which consists of mapping the gauge coordinate to a real and perpendicular direction with respect to the 2D space of positions. Thus, the system turns out to be a 3D insulator with a non-trivial topology, specifically, a quantum Hall insulator. Next, we study an analog quantum simulation of dynamical gauge fields by considering spin-5/2 alkaline-earth atoms in a 2D honeycomb lattice. In the strongly repulsive regime with one particle per site, the ground state is a chiral spin liquid state with broken time reversal symmetry. The spin fluctuations around this configuration are given in terms of an emergent U(1) gauge theory with a Chern-Simons toplogical term. We also address the stability of the three lowest lying states, showing a common critical temperature. We consider experimentally measurable signatures of the mean field states, which can also be key insights for revealing the gauge structure . Then, we introduce the notion of constructive approach for the lattice gauge theories, which leads to a family of gauge theories, the gauge magnets. This family corresponds to quantum link models for the U(1) gauge theory, which consider a truncated dimensional representation of the gauge group. First of all, we (re)discover the phase diagram of the gauge magnet in 2+1 D. Then, we propose a realistic implementation of a digital quantum simulation of the U(1) gauge magnet by using Rydberg atoms, considering that the amount of resources needed for the simulation of link models is drastically reduced as the local Hilbert space shrinks from infinity to 2D (qubit). Finally, motivated by the advances in the simulation of open quantum systems, we turn to consider some aspects concerning the dynamics of correlated quantum many body systems. Specifically we study the time evolution of a quench protocol that conserves the entanglement spectrum of a bipartition. We consider the splitting of a critical Ising chain in two independent chains, and compare it with the case of joining two chains, which does not conserve the entanglement spectrum. We show that both quenches are both locally and globally distinguishable. Our results suggest that this conservation plays a fundamental role in both the out-of-equilibrium dynamics and the subsequent equilibration mechanism
L'estudi dels àtoms ultrafreds constitueix una de les àrees més actives de la física atòmica, molecular, òptica i de l'òptica quàntica. Els èxits teòrics i experimentals de les tres últimes dècades sobre el control i la manipulació de la matèria quàntica en escala macroscòpica condueix a l'anomenada tercera revolució quàntica. Concretament, els recents avenços en els estudis dels àtoms ultrafred en xarxes òptiques proporcionen un sistema que es pot reajustar i reorganitzat per imitar el comportament d'altres sistemes de molts cossos: els gasos d'àtoms ultrafreds en xarxes òptiques actuen com a genuïns simuladors quàntics. La comprensió de les teories de gauge és clau per a la descripció de les interaccions fonamentals del nostre món físic. Particularment, les teories de gauge descriuen una de les més importants classes de sistemes que poden ser tractats amb simuladors quàntics. L'objectiu principal de la tesi és estudiar la implementació de simuladors quàntics de teories de gauge amb gasos d'àtoms ultrafreds en xarxes òptiques. En primer lloc, analitzem un sistema format per un gas ultrafred no interaccionant en una xarxa 2D sota l'acció d'un camp de gauge exòtic i extern provinent del grup de gauge de Heisenberg-Weyl. Descrivim un nou mètode per simular el grau de llibertat gauge, que consisteix a associar la coordenada gauge a una coordenada real i perpendicular a l'espai 2D de les posicions. Així, el sistema resultar ser un aïllant 3D amb topologia no trivial, concretament un aïllant Hall quàntic. Seguidament, estudiem un simulador quàntic analògic de camps de gauge dinàmics amb àtoms alcalinoterris en una xarxa hexagonal. Al régim fortament repulsiu amb un àtom en cada lloc, l'estat fonamental és un líquid espinorial quiral amb la simetria d'inversió temporal trencada. Les fluctuacions d'espín al voltant d'aquesta configuració vénen descrites per una teoria gauge U(1) emergent amb un terme topològic de Chern-Simons. També tractem l'estabilitat dels tres estats amb mínima energia, tot observant una temperatura crítica comuna. Considerem indicis experimentals mesurables dels estats de camp mitjà, que poden ser claus per revelar l'estructura gauge. A continuació, introduïm un enfoc constructiu per a teories gauge en el reticle, la qual porta a una família de teories de gauge, els magnets de gauge. Aquesta família es correspon amb els models d'enllaços quàntics de la teoria gauge U(1). Primer, (re)descobrim el diagrama de fases del magnet de gauge en 2+1 D. Després, proposem una implementació realista d'un simulador quàntic digital del magnet de gauge U(1) amb àtoms de Rydberg, considerant que el nombre de recursos necessaris per a la simulació dels models d'enllaços es redueix dràsticament pel fet que l'espai d' Hilbert local disminueix de dimensió infinita a 2 (bit quàntic). Finalment, motivats pels avenços en la simulació de sistemes quàntics oberts, considerem alguns aspectes de la dinàmica de sistemes quàntics correlacionats de molts cossos. Específicament, estudiem l'evolució temporal en un protocol de canvi sobtat que conserva l'espectre d'entrellaçament d'una bipartició. Considerem la ruptura d'una cadena d'Ising en dues cadenes independents i ho comparem amb la unió de dues cadenes, la qual no conserva l'espectre d'entrellaçament
El estudio de los átomos ultrafríos constituye una de las áreas mas activas de la física atómica, molecular, óptica y de la óptica cuántica. Los logros teóricos y experimentales de las tres últimas décadas sobre el control y la manipulación de la materia cuántica a escala macroscópica conducen a la denominada tercera revolución cuántica. Concretamente, los avances recientes en los estudios de átomos ultrafríos en redes ópticas proporcionan un sistema que puede ser reajustado y reorganizado para imitar el comportamiento de otros sistemas de muchos cuerpos: los gases de átomos ultrafríos en redes ópticas actúan como genuinos simuladores cuánticos. La comprensión de las teorías de gauge es clave para la descripción de la interacciones fundamentales de nuestro mundo físico. En particular, las teorías de gauge describen una de las mas importante clase de sistemas que pueden ser abordados con simuladores cuánticos. El objetivo principal de la tesis es estudiar la implementación de simuladores cuánticos de teorías de gauge con gases de átomos ultrafríos en redes ópticas. En primer lugar, analizamos un sistema formado por un gas ultrafrío no interactuante en una red 2D, bajo la acción de un campo de gauge exótico y externo descrito por el grupo de gauge de Heisenberg-Weyl. Describimos un método novedoso para simular el grado de libertad gauge , que consiste en asociar la coordenada gauge a una coordenada real y perpendicular al espacio 2D de las posiciones. Así, el sistema resulta ser un aislante 3D con una topología no trivial, específicamente un aislante Hall cuántico. Seguidamente, estudiamos un simulador cuántico analógico de campos de gauge dinámicos, considerando átomos alcalinotérreos en una red hexagonal. En el régimen fuertemente repulsivo con una átomo en cada sitio, el estado fundamental es un liquido espinorial quiral con la simetría de inversión temporal rota. Las fluctuaciones de espín alrededor de dicha configuración vienen dadas en términos de una teoría de gauge U(1) emergente con un término topológico de Chern-Simons. También tratamos la estabilidad de los tres estados con mínima energía, observando una temperatura crítica común. Consideramos indicios experimentales medibles de los estados de campo medio, que pueden claves para revelar la estructura de gauge. A continuación, introducimos la noción del enfoque constructivo para teorías de gauge en el retículo, lo que conduce a una familia de teorías de gauge, los magnetos de gauge. Esta familia se corresponde con los modelos de enlaces cuánticos para la teoría de gauge U(1), los cuales consideran una representación dimensional truncada del grupo de gauge. Primeramente, (re)descubrimos el diagrama de fases del magneto de gauge en 2+1D. Seguidamente, proponemos un implementación realista de un simulador cuántico digital del magneto de gauge U(1) usando átomos de Rydberg, considerando que el número de recursos necesarios para la simulación de los modelos de enlace está drásticamente reducido debido a que el espacio de Hilbert local disminuye de infinitas dimensiones a 2 (bit cuántico). Finalmente, motivados por los avances en la simulación de sistemas cuánticos abiertos, consideramos algunos aspectos sobre la dinámica de sistemas cuánticos correlacionados de muchos cuerpos . Específicamente, estudiamos la evolución temporal en un protocolo de cambio súbito que conserva el espectro de entrelazamiento de una bipartición. Consideramos la ruptura de una cadena de Ising en dos cadenas independientes y lo comparamos con la unión de dos cadenas, la cual no conserva el espectro de entrelazamiento. Estos dos cambios abruptos son localmente y globalmente distinguibles. Nuestro resultado sugiere que la mencionada conservación juega un papel fundamental en la dinámica fuera de equilibrio y en el consiguiente equilibrio.