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Fermion zero modes in a chromomagnetic vortex lattice

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-03-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We prove the existence of zero modes of massless quarks in a background of spaghetti vacuum of chromomagnetic vortices in QCD. We find a general solution for the zero modes and show that the modes can be localized at pairs of vortices.

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@article{arxiv.1401.5974,
  title  = {Fermion zero modes in a chromomagnetic vortex lattice},
  author = {M. N. Chernodub and Tigran Kalaydzhyan and Jos Van Doorsselaere and Henri Verschelde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5974},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, v2: edited to match published version and improved figure quality

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