A Superfluid at All Temperatures
hep-th, cond-mat.str-el
Submitted: 2026-10-07
Updated: 2026-10-07
Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We construct unitary, local, 3+1-dimensional conformal field theories with finitely many fields whose thermal state breaks a continuous global symmetry at every temperature.
Abstract
We construct unitary, local, 3+1-dimensional conformal field theories with finitely many fields whose thermal state breaks a continuous global symmetry at every temperature. They are finite- N versions of the Chaudhuri--Choi--Rabinovici theories, whose planar circle of fixed points has an ordered arc. The circle is lifted at order 1/N squared, and an infinite family of fixed points on this arc reaches arbitrarily weak coupling, where the superfluid is under parametric control. We also show that weakly gauging the symmetry gives a superconductor over an exponential range of temperatures.
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