Quantum-mechanical stability of fermion-soliton systems

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.04.090zbMATH Open1247.81261arXivhep-th/0405140OpenAlexW2047829315MaRDI QIDQ452779FDOQ452779

Authors: Narendra Sahu, Urjit A. Yajnik Edit this on Wikidata

Publication date: 17 September 2012

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

Abstract: Topological objects resulting from symmetry breakdown may be either stable or metastable depending on the pattern of symmetry breaking. However, if they acquire zero-energy modes of fermions, and in the process acquire non-integer fermionic charge, the metastable configurations also get stabilized. In the case of Dirac fermions the spectrum of the number operator shifts by 1/2. In the case of majorana fermions it becomes useful to assign negative values of fermion number to a finite number of states occupying the zero-energy level, constituting a extit{majorana pond}. We determine the parities of these states and prove a superselection rule. Thus decay of objects with half-integer fermion number is not possible in isolation or by scattering with ordinary particles. The result has important bearing on cosmology as well as condensed matter physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405140

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zbMATH Keywords

fermion-soliton systemsmetastable configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

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