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Formation of Non-Abelian Monopoles Connected by Strings

Yifung Ng, T. W. B. Kibble, Tanmay Vachaspati

We study the formation of monopoles and strings in a model where SU(3) is spontaneously broken to U(2)=[SU(2)\times U(1)]/\ZZ_2, and then to U(1). The first symmetry breaking gener…