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Noncommuting Flux Sectors in a Tabletop Experiment

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-06-26 v1
Authors: Alexei Kitaev , Gregory W. Moore , Kevin Walker
Comments: 17 pp. harvmac b-mode; 10 figures
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Abstract

We show how one can use superconductors and Josephson junctions to create a laboratory system which can explore the groundstates of the free electromagnetic field in a 3-manifold with torsion in its cohomology.

Keywords

josephson junctions

Cite

@article{arxiv.0706.3410,
  title  = {Noncommuting Flux Sectors in a Tabletop Experiment},
  author = {Alexei Kitaev and Gregory W. Moore and Kevin Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.3410},
  year   = {2007}
}

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