Twisted vortices in a gauge field theory

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01655-6zbMATH Open0994.81074arXivhep-th/0106102OpenAlexW3099894362MaRDI QIDQ1348828FDOQ1348828

Authors: M. Lübcke, S. M. Nasir, Antti J. Niemi, K. Torokoff 

Publication date: 14 May 2002

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We inspect a particular gauge field theory model that describes the properties of a variety of physical systems, including a charge neutral two-component plasma, a Gross-Pitaevskii functional of two charged Cooper pair condensates, and a limiting case of the bosonic sector in the Salam-Weinberg model. It has been argued that this field theory model also admits stable knot-like solitons. Here we produce numerical evidence in support for the existence of these solitons, by considering stable axis-symmetric solutions that can be thought of as straight twisted vortex lines clamped at the two ends. We compute the energy of these solutions as a function of the amount of twist per unit length. The result can be described in terms of a energy spectral function. We find that this spectral function acquires a minimum which corresponds to a nontrivial twist per unit length, strongly suggesting that the model indeed supports stable toroidal solitons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106102

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zbMATH Keywords

charge neutral two-component plasmacharged Cooper pair condensate Gross-Pitaevskii functionalSalam-Weinberg model bosonic sector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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