Maxwell Chern-Simons Research Articles

3D MAXWELL-CHERN-SIMONS SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING

We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the 3D Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) system. This action has one transverse, massive, parity sensitive degree of freedom. We show that after symmetry breaking, this excitation remains massive (although with an increased value) while the other transverse, parity sensitive, vector-like degree of freedom of the system (initially non-excited) acquires mass. These two masses are always different. Covariant, light-front and canonical analysis of the massive MCS system is given as well as the two coupled reduced actions. The quartic behavior of the system propagator stems from this coupled structure.