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Stability analysis of non-Abelian electric fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the stability of fluctuations around a homogeneous non-Abelian electric field background that is of a form that is protected from Schwinger pair production. Our analysis identifies the unstable modes and we find a limiting set of parameters for which there are no instabilities. We discuss potential implications of our analysis for confining strings in non-Abelian gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.2207.05102,
  title  = {Stability analysis of non-Abelian electric fields},
  author = {Jude Pereira and Tanmay Vachaspati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05102},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures

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