A Non-Abelian Vortex Lattice in Strongly Coupled Systems
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-16 v2 Quantum Gases
Abstract
The AdS/CFT correspondence predicts that background non-abelian magnetic fields induce instabilities in strongly-coupled systems with non-abelian global symmetries. These instabilities lead to the formation of vortex lattices in which the non-abelian currents "antiscreen" the applied magnetic field. From the bulk perspective, this behaviour can be traced to a well-known instability of Yang-Mills theory. We analyse the phase structure of the instability and comment on aspects of the vortex lattice.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.7839,
title = {A Non-Abelian Vortex Lattice in Strongly Coupled Systems},
author = {Kenny Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7839},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages. Version to appear in JHEP