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Diamagnetic vortices in Chern-Simons theory

Yannis Burnier, Eray Sabancilar

We find a new type of topological vortex solution in the U(1)(Z) xU(1)(A) Chern-Simons gauge theory in the presence of a U(1)(A) magnetic field background. In this theory U(1)(Z) is broken spontaneously by the U(1)(A) magnetic field. These vortices exhibit ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Insight into the eigenmodes of plasmonic nanoclusters based on the Green's tensor method

Olivier Martin, Shourya Dutta Gupta

Assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles possess exotic properties that are used in numerous applications. Their efficiency for specific applications strongly depends on the modes supported by the structure. In this paper, we extend the Green's tensor formali ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

The composite twin Higgs scenario

Riccardo Rattazzi, Andrea Wulzer, Davide Greco

Based on an explicit model, we propose and discuss the generic features of a possible implementation of the Twin Higgs program in the context of composite Higgs models. We find that the Twin Higgs quadratic divergence cancellation argument can be uplifted ...

Springer2015

On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation

Sergey Sibiryakov, Andrey Shkerin

We study Coleman-De Luccia tunneling of the Standard Model Higgs field during inflation in the case when the electroweak vacuum is metastable. We verify that the tunneling rate is exponentially suppressed. The main contribution to the suppression is the sa ...

Elsevier2015

Confined vortices in topologically massive U(1) x U(1) theory

Yannis Burnier, Eray Sabancilar

We report on a new topological vortex solution in U(1) x U(1) Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory. The existence of the vortex is envisaged by analytical means, and a numerical solution is obtained by integrating the equations of motion. These vortices have a long ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

La coupe du roi and other methods to halve objects

Dieter Schwarzenbach

The symmetry theory of halving objects into two identical fragments is developed and illustrated by examples. La coupe du roi is a fascinating way to slice an apple into chiral fragments with the same handedness. It may be applied to any object with point ...

De Gruyter2015

One-loop effects from spin-1 resonances in Composite Higgs models

Roberto Contino

We compute the 1-loop correction to the electroweak observables from spin-1 resonances in SO(5)/SO(4) composite Higgs models. The strong dynamics is modeled with an effective description comprising the Nambu-Goldstone bosons and the lowest-lying spin-1 res ...

Springer2015

Magnetohydrodynamics of chiral relativistic fluids

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

We study the dynamics of a plasma of charged relativistic fermions at very high temperature T >> m, where m is the fermion mass, coupled to the electromagnetic field. In particular, we derive a magnetohydrodynamical description of the evolution of such a p ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Orbital textures and charge density waves in transition metal dichalcogenides

Helmuth Berger

Low-dimensional electron systems, as realized in layered materials, often tend to spontaneously break the symmetry of the underlying nuclear lattice by forming so-called density waves(1); a state of matter that at present attracts enormous attention(2-6). ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Compositional behavior of Raman-active phonons in Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 ceramics

Dragan Damjanovic, Li Jin

A systematic study of the Raman spectra of Pb(Zr1-xTix)O-3 (PZT) ceramics has been performed in a broad temperature interval (10-600 K) and a broad Ti/Zr concentration range around the morphotropic phase boundary (x = 0.25-0.70). The number of the spectral ...

2015