Standard Model as the topological material
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2017-09-12 v3 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
Study of the Weyl and Dirac topological materials (topological semimetals, insulators, superfluids and superconductors) opens the route for the investigation of the topological quantum vacua of relativistic fields. The symmetric phase of the Standard Model (SM), where both electroweak and chiral symmetry are not broken, represents the topological semimetal. The vacua of the SM (and its extensions) in the phases with broken Electroweak symmetry represent the topological insulators of different types. We discuss in details the topological invariants in both symmetric and broken phases and establish their relation to the stability of vacuum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.07777,
title = {Standard Model as the topological material},
author = {G. E. Volovik and M. A. Zubkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07777},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
14 pages, no figures, submitted to New Journal of Physics