Formation of Topological Defects with Explicit Symmetry Breaking

Details Formation of Topological Defects with Explicit Symmetry Breaking Formation of Topological Defects with Explicit Symmetry Breaking

1995-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9509263v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 583-586

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Latex file, 8 pages, 6 uuencoded postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.583

We demonstrate a novel mechanism for the formation of topological defects in a first order phase transition for theories in the presence of small explicit symmetry breaking terms. We carry out numerical simulations of collisions of two bubbles in 2+1 dimensions for a field theory where U(1) global symmetry is spontaneously as well as explicitly broken. In the coalesced region of bubble walls, field oscillations result in the decay of the coalesced portion in a large number of defects (e.g. ten vortices and anti-vortices). We discuss the implications of our results for axionic strings in the early Universe, for baryon formation in quark-gluon plasma, and for electric or magnetic field.

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