Stability analysis of non-Abelian electric fields
arXiv:2207.05102 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.096019
Abstract
We study the stability of fluctuations around a homogeneous non-Abelian electric field background that is of a form that is protected from Schwinger pair production. Our analysis identifies the unstable modes and we find a limiting set of parameters for which there are no instabilities. We discuss potential implications of our analysis for confining strings in non-Abelian gauge theories.
arXiv comment8 pages, 5 figures
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