The Interactions and Excitations of Nonabelian Vortices
Jan, 1990
10 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 64 (1990) 1632,
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 65 (1990) 668 (erratum)
DOI:
Report number:
- HUTP-89-A051,
- IASSNS-HEP-89-69
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Abstract: (APS)
We examine bosonic zero modes of vortices formed in the gauge breaking G→H. For non-Abelian G, zero modes are generic. Their solutions depend on global symmetry structure. Vortices render the embedding H⊂G space dependent, with a dynamically determined subgroup H̃ single valued. They Aharonov-Bohm scatter gauge bosons associated with multivalued generators. Alice strings (H=O(2), H̃=openZ2) attract charges and scatter SO(2) ‘‘photons,’’ and a two-string system has zero modes with unlocalizable ‘‘Cheshire’’ charge. The resulting superconductivity has novel electrodynamics.- vortex: nonabelian
- vortex: interaction
- interaction: vortex
- boson: zero mode
- symmetry breaking: gauge
- symmetry: O(2)
- symmetry: Z(2)
- symmetry: SO(2)
- Aharonov-Bohm effect
- scattering: gauge boson vortex
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