TY - JOUR
T1 - Non-Abelian quasigapless modes localized on mass vortices in superfluid He3-B
AU - Nitta, Muneto
AU - Shifman, Mikhail
AU - Vinci, Walter
PY - 2013/4/25
Y1 - 2013/4/25
N2 - Kelvin waves, or Kelvons, have been known for a long time as gapless excitations propagating along superfluid vortices. These modes can be interpreted as the Nambu-Goldstone excitations arising from the spontaneous breaking of the translational symmetry. Recently a different type of gapless excitation localized on strings - the so-called non-Abelian mode - attracted much attention in high-energy physics. We discuss their relevance in condensed matter physics. Non-Abelian rotational quasigapless excitations could appear on the mass vortices in the B phase of the superfluid He3, due to the fact that the order parameter in He3-B is tensorial. While the U(1) rotational excitations are well established in vortices with asymmetric cores, the non-Abelian rotational excitations belonging to the same family were not considered.
AB - Kelvin waves, or Kelvons, have been known for a long time as gapless excitations propagating along superfluid vortices. These modes can be interpreted as the Nambu-Goldstone excitations arising from the spontaneous breaking of the translational symmetry. Recently a different type of gapless excitation localized on strings - the so-called non-Abelian mode - attracted much attention in high-energy physics. We discuss their relevance in condensed matter physics. Non-Abelian rotational quasigapless excitations could appear on the mass vortices in the B phase of the superfluid He3, due to the fact that the order parameter in He3-B is tensorial. While the U(1) rotational excitations are well established in vortices with asymmetric cores, the non-Abelian rotational excitations belonging to the same family were not considered.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.081702
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.081702
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84877148884
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 87
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 8
M1 - 081702
ER -