The Collapse of Exotic Textures

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1997-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9701351v2

Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 6454-6465

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

28 pages plus 10 figures. Additional figures and mpeg movies accessible from http://itp.ucsb.edu/~carroll/textures.html

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.55.6454

The ordering of scalar fields after a phase transition in which a group $G$ of global symmetries is spontaneously broken to a subgroup $H$ provides a possible explanation for the origin of structure in the universe, as well as leading to observable effects in condensed matter systems. The field dynamics can depend in principle on the geometry and topology of the vacuum manifold G/H; for example, texture configurations which collapse and unwind will exist if the third homotopy group $\pi_3(G/H)$ is nontrivial. We numerically simulate the evolution of texture-like configurations in a number of different models, in order to determine the extent to which the geometry and topology of the vacuum manifold influences the field evolution. We find that the dynamics is affected by whether or not the theory supports strings or monopoles [characterized by $\pi_1(G/H)$ and $\pi_2(G/H)$, respectively]. In some of the theories studied, configurations with initially spherically symmetric energy densities are unstable to nonspherical collapse; these theories are also found to nucleate defects during the collapse. Models that do not support monopoles or strings behave similarly to each other, regardless of the specific vacuum manifold.

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