Semilocal Topological Defects

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1992-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9206229v1

Nucl.Phys.B392:461-492,1993

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

28pp, DAMTP-HEP-92-24

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(93)90681-E

Semilocal defects are those formed in field theories with spontaneously broken symmetries, where the vacuum manifold $M$ is fibred by the action of the gauge group in a non-trivial way. Studied in this paper is the simplest such class of theories, in which $M\simeq S^{2N-1}$, fibred by the action of a local $U(1)$ symmetry. Despite $M$ having trivial homotopy groups up to $\pi_{2N-2}$, this theory exhibits a fascinating variety of defects: vortices, or semilocal strings; monopoles (on which the strings terminate); and (when $N=2$) textures, which may be stabilised by their associated magnetic field to produce a skyrmion.

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