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The Creation of Defects with Core Condensation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Defects in superfluid 3He, high-Tc superconductors, QCD colour superfluids and cosmic vortons can possess (anti)ferromagnetic cores, and their generalisations. In each case there is a second order parameter whose value is zero in the bulk which does not vanish in the core. We examine the production of defects in the simplest 1+1 dimensional scalar theory in which a second order parameter can take non-zero values in a defect core. We study in detail the effects of core condensation on the defect production mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0601130,
  title  = {The Creation of Defects with Core Condensation},
  author = {Nuno D. Antunes and Pedro Gandra and Ray J. Rivers and A. Swarup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0601130},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures, small corrections, 2 references added, final version to be published in PRD