Easy-plane QED$_3$'s in the large $N_f$ limit

TL;DR

This paper analyzes various fixed points of 2+1 dimensional QED with large flavor number, computing operator dimensions and testing dualities with supersymmetric models.

Contribution

It systematically computes scaling dimensions of operators in large $N_f$ QED$_3$ and verifies duality with supersymmetric models at finite $N_f$.

Findings

Large $N_f$ expansion yields operator dimensions consistent with dual models.

Four bosonic and four fermionic fixed points identified and analyzed.

Extrapolated results at $N_f=2$ support the duality conjecture.

Abstract

We consider Quantum Electrodynamics in $2{+}1$ dimensions with $N_f$ fermionic or bosonic flavors, allowing for interactions that respect the global symmetry $U(N_f/2)^2$. There are four bosonic and four fermionic fixed points, which we analyze using the large $N_f$ expansion. We systematically compute, at order $O(1/N_f)$, the scaling dimensions of quadratic and quartic mesonic operators. We also consider Quantum Electrodynamics with minimal supersymmetry. In this case the large $N_f$ scaling dimensions, extrapolated at $N_f{=}2$, agree quite well with the scaling dimensions of a dual supersymmetric Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model. This provides a quantitative check of the conjectured duality.

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