Quasicrystalline string landscape

IF 5 2区物理与天体物理 Q1 Physics and Astronomy

Physical Review D Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI:10.1103/physrevd.111.086025

Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa

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Abstract

In this work, we investigate a largely unexplored nongeometric corner of the string landscape: the quasicrystalline orbifolds. These exist at special points of the Narain moduli, leading to frozen moduli and large quantum symmetries. Here, we complete the classification and construction of quasicrystalline Narain lattices and use this to explore supersymmetric compactifications in 4≤D≤6 and with 4≤Q≤16 supercharges, leading to novel theories, including theories with large quantum symmetries at all points in the moduli space. We anticipate that these constructions will have many applications, and in subsequent work, we apply these techniques to construct new nonsupersymmetric tachyon-free models. Similarly, these constructions can lead to constructing exotic matter representations in the string landscape.

Published by the American Physical Society

2025

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准晶串景观

在这项工作中，我们研究了弦景观中一个很大程度上未被探索的非几何角：准晶体轨道。它们存在于纳拉因模的特殊点，导致模冻结和大量子对称性。在这里，我们完成了准晶Narain晶格的分类和构造，并利用它来探索4≤D≤6和4≤Q≤16超荷下的超对称紧化，从而得到新的理论，包括在模空间中所有点具有大量子对称性的理论。我们预计这些结构将有许多应用，在后续的工作中，我们将应用这些技术来构建新的非超对称无速子模型。类似地，这些构造可以导致在弦景观中构造奇异的物质表示。2025年由美国物理学会出版

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Physical Review D 物理-天文与天体物理

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

36.00%

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审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Physical Review D (PRD) is a leading journal in elementary particle physics, field theory, gravitation, and cosmology and is one of the top-cited journals in high-energy physics. PRD covers experimental and theoretical results in all aspects of particle physics, field theory, gravitation and cosmology, including: Particle physics experiments, Electroweak interactions, Strong interactions, Lattice field theories, lattice QCD, Beyond the standard model physics, Phenomenological aspects of field theory, general methods, Gravity, cosmology, cosmic rays, Astrophysics and astroparticle physics, General relativity, Formal aspects of field theory, field theory in curved space, String theory, quantum gravity, gauge/gravity duality.