A Global Analog of Cheshire Charge
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v2 Condensed Matter
Abstract
It is shown that a model with a spontaneously broken global symmetry can support defects analogous to Alice strings, and a process analogous to Cheshire charge exchange can take place. A possible realization in superfluid He-3 is pointed out.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9401120,
title = {A Global Analog of Cheshire Charge},
author = {Patrick McGraw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9401120},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
24 pages (figures 1-4 included as uu-encoded tar files), CALT-68-1865 (Revised version: an expression (eq. 17) for global charge density is corrected; some typos and sign mismatches are removed.)