Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz Invariance

Details Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz Invariance Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz Invariance

2003-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311127v5

Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 105007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

revtex4, 11 pages, 5 figures; v2:references added; v3:more references added, typos fixed, some points in sect. IV clarified; v

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.69.105007

We describe how a stable effective theory in which particles of the same fermion number attract may spontaneously break Lorentz invariance by giving non-zero fermion number density to the vacuum (and therefore dynamically generating a chemical potential term). This mecanism yields a finite vacuum expectation value $<\bar\psi\gamma^\mu\psi>$ which we consider in the context of proposed models that require such a breaking of Lorentz invariance in order to yield composite degrees of freedom that act approximately like gauge bosons. We also make general remarks about how the background source provided by $<\bar\psi\gamma^\mu\psi>$ could relate to work on signals of Lorentz violation in electrodynamics.

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