Langevin Dynamics of Lattice Yang–Mills–Higgs and Applications

In this paper, we investigate the Langevin dynamics of various lattice formulations of the Yang–Mills–Higgs model, with an inverse Yang–Mills coupling β and a Higgs parameter κ. The Higgs component is either a bounded field taking values in a compact target space, or an unbounded field taking values in a vector space in which case the model also has a Higgs mass parameter m. We study the regime where (β,κ) are small in the first case or (β,κ/m) are small in the second case. We prove the exponential ergodicity of the dynamics on the whole lattice via functional inequalities. We establish exponential decay of correlations for a broad class of observables, namely, the infinite volume measure exhibits a strictly positive mass gap. Moreover, when the target space of the Higgs field is compact, appropriately rescaled observables exhibit factorized correlations in the large N limit. These extend the earlier results (Shen et al. in Comm Math Phys 400(2):805–851, 2023) on pure lattice Yang–Mills to the case with a coupled Higgs field. Unlike pure lattice Yang–Mills where the field is always bounded, in the case where the coupled Higgs component is unbounded, the control of its behavior is much harder and requires new techniques. Our approach involves a disintegration argument and a delicate analysis of correlations to effectively control the unbounded Higgs component.