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Superconducting and Spinning Non-Abelian Flux Tubes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We find new non-Abelian flux tube solutions in a model of NfN_f scalar fields in the fundamental representation of SU(N)xU(1) with NNfN \leq N_f (the ``extended non-Abelian Higgs model''), and study their main properties. Among the solutions there are spinning strings as well as superconducting ones. The solutions exist only in a non trivial domain of the parameter space defined by the ratio between the SU(N) and U(1) coupling constants, the scalar self-interaction coupling constants, the magnetic fluxes (Abelian as well as non-Abelian) and the ``twist parameter'' which is a non-trivial relative phase of the Higgs fields.

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@article{arxiv.0711.1112,
  title  = {Superconducting and Spinning Non-Abelian Flux Tubes},
  author = {Y. Brihaye and Y. Verbin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1112},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Revised version. To be published in Phys. Rev. D