Interactions and excitations of non-Abelian vortices

M. G. Alford, Katherine Benson, Sidney Coleman, John March-Russell, Frank Wilczek

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Abstract

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 H single valued. They Aharonov-Bohm scatter gauge bosons associated with multivalued generators. Alice strings (H=O(2), H=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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1632-1635
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume64
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 1990
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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