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JHEP11(2017)203
Published for SISSA by Springer
Received: October 5, 2017
Accepted: November 22, 2017
Published: November 30, 2017
Soft pion theorem, asymptotic symmetry and new
memory effect
Yuta Hamada
a,b
and Sotaro Sugishita
c
a
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
b
KEK Theory Center, IPNS, KEK,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
c
Department of Physics, Osaka University,
Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Abstract: It is known that soft photon and graviton theorems can be regarded as the
Ward-Takahashi identities of asymptotic symmetries. In this paper, we consider soft the-
orem for pions, i.e., Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with a spontaneously broken
axial symmetry. The soft pion theorem is written as the Ward-Takahashi identities of the
S-matrix under asymptotic transformations. We investigate the asymptotic dynamics, and
find that the conservation of charges generating the asymptotic transformations can be
interpreted as a pion memory effect.
Keywords: Global Symmetries, Scattering Amplitudes, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
ArXiv ePrint: 1709.05018
Open Access,
c
The Authors.
Article funded by SCOAP
3
.
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)203
JHEP11(2017)203
Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Soft theorem in U(1)
A
model 3
2.1 Model 3
2.2 Soft pion theorem 3
2.3 Soft pion theorem as the Ward-Takahashi identity 7
2.4 Ward-Takahashi identity for spontaneously broken symmetry 8
3 Asymptotic symmetry 9
3.1 Asymptotic behaviors of massless fields 10
3.2 Asymptotic behaviors of massive fields 11
4 Charge conservation as memory effect 12
4.1 Expression of charge in terms of the asymptotic fields 12
4.2 Classical derivation of the memory effect 14
5 Summary and discussions 16
A Convention and formulas 17
B Coordinate systems 18
1 Introduction
Recently it has been discussed in [1–13] (see [14] for a review) that asymptotic symmetries
for QED and Quantum Gravity (QG) in four-dimensional flat spacetime are related to
soft photon and graviton theorems [15–17]. The asymptotic symmetries are large gauge
transformations for QED and supertranslations in the BMS transformation [18, 19] for QG.
The symmetries are spontaneously broken and soft photons and gravitons can be regarded
as the associated Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons.
1
Furthermore, it has been shown [24–29]
that the conservation of the charges generating the asymptotic symmetries is equivalent to
the electromagnetic or gravitational memory effects [30–44].
Thus, for QED and QG, we have the triangular equivalence relation associated with
the infrared dynamics illustrated in figure 1. We expect that such triangular relations hold
in other theories with massless particles. Actually, the massless scalar theories coupled to
massive scalars and fermions are considered in [45], and it is argued that the soft scalar
theorem can be written as the Ward-Takahashi identity and the theories have an infinite
1
The statement that photons and gravitons are NG bosons is not new and it is discussed in [20–23].
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Memory
Effect
Soft
Theorem
Asymptotic
Symmetry
Figure 1. Triangular relation among soft theorem, asymptotic symmetry and memory effect.
number of conserved charges. One can show that the charge conservation is equivalent to
the scalar memory effect discussed in [38, 43]. However, the theories in [45] suffer from the
infrared divergences, and in general, the scalar boson acquires finite mass at loop level.
In this paper, we consider the case that the massless scalar is a NG boson. Unlike the
model considered in [45], we consider a theory without infrared divergences, and massless-
ness of scalar is ensured from the NG theorem.
The behaviors of scattering amplitudes in the soft limit of a NG boson are different
from those in QED and QG since the NG bosons interact only through derivative couplings.
Let ω be the energy of a soft particle. In QED and QG, the scattering amplitudes with soft
particle, ω → 0, are factorized into the product of O(ω
−1
) soft factor and the amplitudes
without soft particle. For the soft limit of NG boson, the O(ω
−1
) factors are absent, and
the soft factors start from O(1). Moreover, even the O(1) factors often vanish due to
so-called Adler’s zero [46, 47].
We consider a specific model that avoids Adler’s zero. The model contains a complex
scalar and a Dirac fermion, and there is a global axial U(1) symmetry, which is sponta-
neously broken by choosing a vacuum. This model may be regarded as a toy model of
real pions or axions in the beyond standard model, and therefore we call the associated
NG bosons pions. In this paper, we first review that the scattering amplitudes with a soft
pion give universal O(1) factors as in [48]. Then, we rewrite the soft pion theorem as the
Ward-Takahashi identity of S-matrix by identifying an infinite number of charges which
generate an asymptotic symmetry. Furthermore we show that the charge conservation can
be interpreted as a pion memory effect, where the information of hard particles is memo-
rized in a shift of 1/r
2
coefficient of pion fields in future or past null infinity. Therefore,
the triangular relation in figure 1 is established for a theory with pions.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: in section 2, we specify a model
that we consider in this paper, and the soft pion theorem is presented. Then, the soft
theorem is rewritten in a form of the Ward-Takahashi identity, and we find an infinite
number of charges generating asymptotic transformations. In section 3, we investigate
the asymptotic behaviors of fields near null and timelike infinities, and see the asymptotic
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transformations. In section 4, we argue that the charge conservation is interpreted as a
pion memory effect. We confirm that the memory effect is consistent with the classical
asymptotic dynamics. Section 5 is devoted to the summary and discussion. We summarize
our conventions in appendix A and coordinate systems in appendix B.
2 Soft theorem in U(1)
A
model
2.1 Model
We consider a system of a complex scalar Φ and a Dirac spinor Ψ interacting as follows:
2
L= −
¯
Ψ/∂Ψ−
√
2y
Φ
¯
Ψ
1+γ
5
2
Ψ+Φ
∗
¯
Ψ
1−γ
5
2
Ψ
−|∂
µ
Φ|
2
−
λ
2
2
|Φ|
2
−
v
√
2
2
!
2
, (2.1)
where y is the real Yukawa coupling, and λ and v are also real couplings. This Lagrangian
possesses the chiral symmetry,
Φ → e
iθ
Φ, Ψ → e
−iθγ
5
/2
Ψ. (2.2)
The scalar potential in (2.1) leads to the spontaneous breaking of this U(1) symmetry. We
choose the vacuum configuration as Φ
0
=v/
√
2, and expand the fields around the vacuum as
Φ(x) =
1
√
2
(v + φ(x)) e
iπ(x)/v
, Ψ(x) = e
−iπ(x)γ
5
/(2v)
ψ(x), (2.3)
where φ(x) and π(x) are real scalar fields, and ψ(x) is the redefined Dirac field. The
Lagrangian is then given by
L = −
¯
ψ/∂ψ − y(v + φ)
¯
ψψ −
1
2
(∂
µ
φ)
2
+ λ
2
v
2
φ
2
−
1
2
1 +
φ
v
2
(∂
µ
π)
2
+
i
2v
(∂
µ
π)
¯
ψγ
µ
γ
5
ψ −
λ
2
v
2
φ
3
−
λ
2
8
φ
4
= −
¯
ψ (/∂ + m) ψ − yφ
¯
ψψ −
1
2
(∂
µ
φ)
2
+ m
2
φ
φ
2
−
1
2
1 +
λ
m
φ
φ
2
(∂
µ
π)
2
+
iy
2m
(∂
µ
π)
¯
ψγ
µ
γ
5
ψ −
m
φ
λ
2
φ
3
−
λ
2
8
φ
4
. (2.4)
Here m = yv and m
φ
= λv are mass of ψ and φ respectively. π is the NG boson associated
with the chiral symmetry (2.2), and we call it pion.
2.2 Soft pion theorem
We now investigate the soft theorem for the NG boson π(x). We will see that the soft
limit of our NG boson does not lead to the divergence unlike the leading soft theorems for
photons [15, 16], gravitons [17] and massless scalars [45], but it has a universal behavior at
the subleading order O(1).
3
2
See appendix A for conventions in our paper.
3
In the absence of Ψ, O(1) contributions also vanish due to Adler’s zero [46, 47].
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First, we summarize the Feynman rules of our model (2.4). In the interaction picture,
fields π(x), ψ(x),
¯
ψ(x), φ(x) are expanded as
π(x) =
Z
d
3
p
(2π)
3
1
2E
p
a
(π)
p
e
ip·x
+ a
(π)†
p
e
−ip·x
, (2.5)
ψ(x) =
Z
d
3
p
(2π)
3
1
2E
p
X
s
a
s
p
u
s
(p)e
ip·x
+ b
s†
p
v
s
(p)e
−ip·x
, (2.6)
¯
ψ(x) =
Z
d
3
p
(2π)
3
1
2E
p
X
s
b
s
p
¯v
s
(p)e
ip·x
+ a
s†
p
¯u
s
(p)e
−ip·x
, (2.7)
φ(x) =
Z
d
3
p
(2π)
3
1
2E
p
a
(φ)
p
e
ip·x
+ a
(φ)†
p
e
−ip·x
. (2.8)
The annihilation and creation operators satisfy the (anti-)commutation relations:
h
a
(π)
p
, a
(π)†
p
0
i
=
h
a
(φ)
p
, a
(φ)†
p
0
i
= 2E
p
(2π)
3
δ
3
(p − p
0
) , (2.9)
n
a
s
p
, a
s
0
†
p
0
o
=
n
b
s
p
, b
s
0
†
p
0
o
= 2E
p
(2π)
3
δ
3
(p − p
0
)δ
s,s
0
. (2.10)
Then, asymptotic one-particle states are defined by acting creation operators on the free
ground state such as |pi
0
= a
(π)†
p
|0i
0
.
From the Lagrangian (2.4), we obtain the Feynman rules for the perturbative compu-
tation of the S-matrix elements. The propagator of each field is as follows:
propagator of π: =
−i
p
2
− i
, (2.11)
propagator of ψ:
p
=
−/p − im
p
2
+ m
2
− i
, (2.12)
propagator of φ: =
−i
p
2
+ m
2
φ
− i
, (2.13)
and the interaction vertices including the pions are
p
=
iy
2m
/pγ
5
,
p
1
p
2
=
2iλp
1
· p
2
m
φ
,
p
1
p
2
=
2iλ
2
p
1
· p
2
m
2
φ
.
(2.14)
We consider scattering processes including an outgoing pion with momentum ωq
µ
where q
µ
is a normalized null vector q
µ
= (1,
ˆ
q) with |
ˆ
q|
2
= 1, and take the soft limit
ω → 0. Since all of the vertices given in eq. (2.14) are proportional to momenta of the
pions, they vanish if the momenta become zero. Thus, the soft limit generally takes the
Feynman diagrams to zero unless the limit hits some singularities. Such singularities occur
only when the external line of the soft pion is attached to the external lines of fermions (or
anti-fermions) as figure 2.
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