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Fermions Coupled to Chern-Simons Gauge Field or Imaginary Chemical Potential and the Bloch Theorem

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I point out that the U(N) Chern-Simons 3d theory coupled to fermions at finite temperature and at a specific mean field approximation and the 3d Gross-Neveu model at finite temperature and imaginary chemical potential can give us the same results for the thermodynamic values of the free-energy and the saddle point equation for the thermal mass. I use specific results from the thermodynamics of fermionic models that coupled to Chern-Simons gauge field and imaginary chemical potential. In the latter case I introduce a representation for the canonical partition function for imaginary chemical potential and I see that the CS level κ plays the role of the U(1) charge. I further argue that the periodic structure of the imaginary chemical potential brings also Bloch’s theorem into the game. Namely, the vacuum structure of the fermionic system with imaginary baryon density is a Bloch wave. I further emphasise that Bloch waves correspond to fermionic (antisymmetric) or bosonic (symmetric) quasi- particles depending on the point in the band one sits in. This situation is similar with particles in a periodic potential of a crystal that behave like Bloch-wavefunctions. The overlap between them is a lattice momentum that can be restricted to the first Brillouin zone of the band structure.

Published in International Journal of High Energy Physics (Volume 10, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijhep.20231002.11
Page(s) 12-19
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Fermions, Chern-Simons, Bloch-wave

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  • Department of Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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