Published April 22, 2025 | Version v1
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Quasicrystalline string landscape

  • 1. Harvard University
  • 2. University of Chicago

Description

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.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.111.086025
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oai:uchicago.tind.io:14965

Funding

Harvard University
Swampland Initiative
Simons Foundation
602883
DellaPietra Foundation
National Science Foundation
PHY-2013858

UChicago Information

Division(s)
Physical Sciences Division
Department(s)
Enrico Fermi Institute, Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics
Center(s) or Institute(s)
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics