Spin vortices in the Abelian-Higgs model with cholesteric vacuum structure

Adam J. Peterson; Mikhail Shifman; Gianni Tallarita

doi:10.1016/j.aop.2015.10.012

Spin vortices in the Abelian-Higgs model with cholesteric vacuum structure

Adam J. Peterson
, Mikhail Shifman
, Gianni Tallarita

Faculty of Liberal Arts

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Abstract

We continue the study of U(1) vortices with cholesteric vacuum structure. A new class of solutions is found which represent global vortices of the internal spin field. These spin vortices are characterized by a non-vanishing angular dependence at spatial infinity, or winding. We show that despite the topological Z2 behavior of SO(3) windings, the topological charge of the spin vortices is of the Z type in the cholesteric. We find these solutions numerically and discuss the properties derived from their low energy effective field theory in 1 + 1 dimensions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	515-532
Number of pages	18
Journal	Annals of Physics
Volume	363
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2015.10.012
State	Published - 1 Dec 2015

Keywords

Cholesteric liquid
Effective field theory
Spin vortex

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