Dec 3 – 6, 2019
KEK
Japan timezone

Topological order in the color-flavor locked phase of (3+1)-dimensional U(N) gauge-Higgs system

Dec 4, 2019, 3:45 PM
15m
Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu-Honkan bldg. 1F (KEK)

Kobayashi Hall, Kenkyu-Honkan bldg. 1F

KEK

Speaker

Dr Ryo Yokokura

Description

We study a (3+1)-dimensional U(N) gauge theory with N-flavor fundamental scalar fields, whose color-flavor locked (CFL) phase has topologically stable non-Abelian vortices. The U(1) charge of the scalar fields must be Nk+1 for some integer k in order for them to be in the representation of U(N) gauge group. This theory has a Z_{Nk+1} one-form symmetry, and it is spontaneously broken in the CFL phase, i.e., the CFL phase is topologically ordered if k is not 0. We also find that the world sheet of topologically stable vortices in CFL phase can generate this one-form symmetry.

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