TY - JOUR
T1 - Josephson junction of non-Abelian superconductors and non-Abelian Josephson vortices
AU - Nitta, Muneto
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 23740198 ) and by the “Topological Quantum Phenomena” Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 23103515 ) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.
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PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - A Josephson junction is made of two superconductors sandwiching an insulator, and a Josephson vortex is a magnetic vortex (flux tube) absorbed into the Josephson junction, whose dynamics can be described by the sine-Gordon equation. In a field theory framework, a flexible Josephson junction was proposed, in which the Josephson junction is represented by a domain wall separating two condensations and a Josephson vortex is a sine-Gordon soliton in the domain wall effective theory. In this paper, we propose a Josephson junction of non-Abelian color superconductors and show that a non-Abelian vortex (color magnetic flux tube) absorbed into it is a non-Abelian Josephson vortex represented as a non-Abelian sine-Gordon soliton in the domain wall effective theory, that is the U(N) principal chiral model.
AB - A Josephson junction is made of two superconductors sandwiching an insulator, and a Josephson vortex is a magnetic vortex (flux tube) absorbed into the Josephson junction, whose dynamics can be described by the sine-Gordon equation. In a field theory framework, a flexible Josephson junction was proposed, in which the Josephson junction is represented by a domain wall separating two condensations and a Josephson vortex is a sine-Gordon soliton in the domain wall effective theory. In this paper, we propose a Josephson junction of non-Abelian color superconductors and show that a non-Abelian vortex (color magnetic flux tube) absorbed into it is a non-Abelian Josephson vortex represented as a non-Abelian sine-Gordon soliton in the domain wall effective theory, that is the U(N) principal chiral model.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.027
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938719056
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 899
SP - 78
EP - 90
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
ER -