Wednesday, July 31, 2013

1307.7839 (Kenny Wong)

A non-abelian vortex lattice in strongly-coupled systems    [PDF]

Kenny Wong
The AdS/CFT correspondence predicts that background non-abelian magnetic fields induce instabilities in strongly-coupled systems with non-abelian global symmetries. These instabilities lead to the formation of vortex lattices in which the non-abelian currents "antiscreen" the applied magnetic field. From the bulk perspective, this behaviour can be traced to a well-known instability of Yang-Mills theory. We analyse the phase structure of the instability and comment on aspects of the vortex lattice.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7839

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