Induced vacuum current and magnetic field in the background of a vortex

DOI10.1142/S0217751X16500172zbMATH Open1337.81127arXiv1505.02356OpenAlexW3104552697MaRDI QIDQ2806244FDOQ2806244

Yu A. Sitenko, Iryna V. Ivanchenko, Volodymyr M. Gorkavenko

Publication date: 17 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A topological defect in the form of the Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen vortex is considered as a gauge-flux-carrying tube that is impenetrable for quantum matter. Charged scalar matter field is quantized in the vortex background with the perfectly reflecting (Dirichlet) boundary condition imposed at the side surface of the vortex. We show that a current circulating around the vortex and a magnetic field directed along the vortex are induced in the vacuum, if the Compton wavelength of the matter field exceeds considerably the transverse size of the vortex. The vacuum current and magnetic field are periodic in the value of the gauge flux of the vortex, providing a quantum-field-theoretical manifestation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The total flux of the induced vacuum magnetic field attains noticeable finite values even for the Compton wavelength of the matter field exceeding the transverse size of the vortex by just three orders of magnitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02356

zbMATH Keywords

currentmagnetic vortexvortexvacuum polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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• Vacuum energy induced by a singular magnetic vortex
• Electric/magnetic flux tube on the background of magnetic/electric field

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