A multipole-expanded effective field theory for vortex ring-sound interactions

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)022zbMATH Open1387.83082arXiv1709.01927MaRDI QIDQ1748720FDOQ1748720

Authors: Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Ermis Mitsou, Alberto Nicolis 

Publication date: 14 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The low-energy dynamics of a zero temperature superfluid or of the compressional modes of an ordinary fluid can be described by a simple effective theory for a scalar field---the superfluid 'phase'. However, when vortex lines are present, to describe all interactions in a local fashion one has to switch to a magnetic-type dual two-form description, which comes with six degrees of freedom (in place of one) and an associated gauge redundancy, and is thus considerably more complicated. Here we show that, in the case of vortex $rings$ and for bulk modes that are much longer than the typical ring size, one can perform a systematic multipole expansion of the effective action and recast it into the simpler scalar field language. In a sense, in the presence of vortex rings the non-single valuedness of the scalar can be hidden inside the rings, and thus out of the reach of the multipole expansion. As an application of our techniques, we compute by standard effective field theory methods the sound emitted by an oscillating vortex ring.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01927

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupduality in gauge field theorieseffective field theorieslong strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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