Extensive Finite-Momentum Instabilities of the Uniformly Frustrated SU(2) Vacuum on the Diamond Lattice in Granular Entropic Physics
We compute the full momentum-dependent Hessian K(p) of the Wilson plaquette action for SU(2) gauge field fluctuations above the uniformly frustrated vacuum on the GEP diamond lattice. The Bloch-folded 9x9 Hessian reproduces the published zero-momentum spectrum exactly and reveals extensive negative eigenvalues across the entire Brillouin zone. At the most unstable wavevector, five of nine eigenvalues are negative, with lambda_min = -6.02. A control test with the trivial vacuum (phi = 0) confirms zero instability everywhere, establishing that the negative modes originate specifically from geometric frustration. The dominant unstable mode is a rank-3 colour-space mixed collective reorganization with characteristic wavelength of approximately 3-4 lattice spacings. These results strongly suggest that the uniformly frustrated vacuum is not the ground state and that any stable vacuum configuration is likely non-uniform and spatially structured.
Authors
- Štěpán Sekanina
Institutions
- Home Office (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-05-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20274594
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- preprint