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The Aharonov-Bohm effect for a knotted magnetic solenoid
Roman V. Buniy, Thomas W. Kephart
We show that the linking of a semiclassical path of a charged particle with a knotted magnetic solenoid results in the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The phase shift in the wave function is…
Creating kinks from particles
Sourish Dutta, D. A. Steer, Tanmay Vachaspati
We study the creation of solitons from particles, using the model as a prototype. We consider the scattering of small, identical, wave pulses, that are equivalent to a seque…
What is the entropy of the universe?
Paul Frampton, Stephen D. H. Hsu, Thomas W. Kephart +1
Standard calculations suggest that the entropy of our universe is dominated by black holes, whose entropy is of order their area in Planck units, although they comprise only a tiny…
Conceptual Explanation for the Algebra in the Noncommutative Approach to the Standard Model
Ali H. Chamseddine, Alain Connes
The purpose of this letter is to remove the arbitrariness of the ad hoc choice of the algebra and its representation in the noncommutative approach to the Standard Model, which was…
Quantum Gravity Boundary Terms from Spectral Action of Noncommutative Space
Ali H. Chamseddine, Alain Connes
We study the boundary terms of the spectral action of the noncommutative space, defined by the spectral triple dictated by the physical spectrum of the standard model, unifying gra…
Higher order topological invariants from the Chern-Simons action
Roman V. Buniy, Thomas W. Kephart
It is well known that for a field theory with the Chern-Simons action, expectation values of Wilson line operators are topological invariants. The standard result is expressed in t…