TY - JOUR
T1 - BPS Alice strings
AU - Chatterjee, Chandrasekhar
AU - Nitta, Muneto
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science (MEXT)-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities “Topological Science” (Grant No. S1511006). C. C. acknowledges support as an International Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (Grant No: 16F16322). The work of M. N. is supported in part by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI Grant No. 25400268), and by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Topological Materials Science” (KAKENHI Grant No. 15H05855) and “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations” (KAKENHI Grant No. 15H00841) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science (MEXT) of Japan.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - When a charged particle encircles around an Alice string, it changes the sign of the electric charge. In this paper we find a BPS-saturated Alice string in U(1)×SO(3) gauge theory with charged complex scalar fields belonging to the vector representation. After performing BPS completion we solve the BPS equations numerically. We further embed the Alice string into an N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theory to show that it is half BPS.
AB - When a charged particle encircles around an Alice string, it changes the sign of the electric charge. In this paper we find a BPS-saturated Alice string in U(1)×SO(3) gauge theory with charged complex scalar fields belonging to the vector representation. After performing BPS completion we solve the BPS equations numerically. We further embed the Alice string into an N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theory to show that it is half BPS.
KW - Gauge Symmetry
KW - Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
KW - Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
KW - Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP09(2017)046
DO - 10.1007/JHEP09(2017)046
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029583431
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1126-6708
IS - 9
M1 - 46
ER -