Vacuum Manifold

In quantum field theory, the vacuum state may be degenerate. Each pure vacuum state generates its own superselection sector, of course. The space of all pure vacuum states often has a manifold structure and is called the vacuum manifold. Vacuum manifolds arise during the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking from a group G to a subgroup H and the corresponding vacuum manifold has to be a realization of G and contain the quotient space G/H. In many cases, it would simply be G/H, although it could be larger. Not all vacuum manifolds arise due to spontanous symmetry breaking. Supersymmetric models often contain moduli spaces which is another name for the vacuum manifold. In many cases, the vacuum manifold is parametrized by the values of permissible vacuum expectation values. This is not the case for spontaneous symmetry breaking due to fermion condensation, though. If the vacuum manifold is homotopically nontrivial, it's possible for there to be topological sectors.

 

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