Abelian Higgs Model Effective Potential in the Presence of Vortices

Rudnei O. Ramos, J. F. Medeiros Neto, Daniel G. Barci +1

We determine the contribution of nontrivial vacuum (topological) excitations, more specifically vortex--strings of the Abelian Higgs model in 3+1 dimensions, to the functional part…