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hep-th2026

Chiral Soliton Lattices under Magnetic Fields and Rotation: a Holographic Analysis

Markus A. G. Amano, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta +1

We study the chiral soliton lattice (CSL) in rotating QCD matter under a background magnetic field within holographic QCD. We show that rotation can be incorporated as a background…

hep-th2026

Revisiting the Wess-Zumino-Witten Term in Nuclear and Quark Matter under Magnetic Fields and Rotation

Markus A. G. Amano, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta +1

We study anomalous Wess-Zumino-Witten terms associated with the chiral anomaly in dense QCD matter under magnetic fields and rotation. By introducing electromagnetic, baryon number…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Holographic QCD Matter: Chiral Soliton Lattices in Strong Magnetic Field

Markus A. G. Amano, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta +1

We investigate the chiral soliton lattice (CSL) in the framework of holographic QCD in magnetic field. Under appropriate boundary conditions for the gauge field and the quark mass…

hep-th2025

Dislocations and crystallization dynamics of chiral soliton lattices

Minoru Eto, Kentaro Nishimura, Muneto Nitta

Dislocations, as topological defects in crystal lattices, are fundamental to understanding plasticity in materials. Similar periodic structures also arise in continuum field theori…

hep-th2024

Holographic Global Vortices with Novel Boundary Conditions

Markus A. G. Amano, Minoru Eto

The AdS/CFT correspondence has significantly impacted the study of strongly coupled systems, providing insights into various condensed matter phenomena through its holographic dual…

hep-th2024

Topological solitons stabilized by a background gauge field and soliton-anti-soliton asymmetry

Yuki Amari, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta

We study topological lumps supported by the second homotopy group in a gauged model without any potential term coupled with a (non)dynamical $U…

hep-th2023

Composite topological solitons consisting of domain walls, strings, and monopoles in models

Minoru Eto, Yu Hamada, Muneto Nitta

We study various composites of global solitons consisting of domain walls, strings, and monopoles in linear models with and . Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of…

hep-th2022★ 23 cited

Quantum nucleation of topological solitons

Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta

The chiral soliton lattice is an array of topological solitons realized as ground states of QCD at finite density under strong magnetic fields or rapid rotation, and chiral magnets…

hep-th2021

The moduli space of non-Abelian vortices in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons-Higgs theory

Sven Bjarke Gudnason, Minoru Eto

We determine the dimension of the moduli space of non-Abelian vortices in Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons-Higgs theory in 2+1 dimensions for gauge groups $G=({\rm U}(1)\times G')/\mathbb{Z…

hep-th2021

SM gauge fields localized on non-Abelian vortices in 6 dimensions

Masato Arai, Filip Blaschke, Minoru Eto +2

A brane-world GUT model with global non-Abelian vortices is constructed in six-dimensional spacetime. We find a solution with a vortex associated to separated from…

hep-th2020★ 6 cited

Dynamics of global and local vortices with orientational moduli

Minoru Eto, Adam Peterson, Fidel I. Schaposnik Massolo +1

The dynamics of both global and local vortices with non-Abelian orientational moduli is investigated in detail. Head-on collisions of these vortices are numerically simulated for p…

hep-th2020★ 15 cited

Topological structure of Nambu monopole in Two Higgs doublet models -- Fiber bundle, Dirac's quantization and dyon --

Minoru Eto, Yu Hamada, Muneto Nitta

We find a topologically non-trivial structure of the Nambu monopole in two Higgs doublet model (2HDM), which is a magnetic monopole attached by two topologically stable strings…

hep-th2020★ 2 cited

1/2-BPS vortex strings in supersymmetric gauge theories

Sven Bjarke Gudnason, Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta

Strings in supersymmetric gauge theories with hypermultiplets are studied in the generic setting of an arbitrary Fayet-Iliopoulos triplet of para…

hep-th2020★ 9 cited

Exhausting all exact solutions of BPS domain wall networks in arbitrary dimensions

Minoru Eto, Masaki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta +1

We obtain full moduli parameters for generic non-planar BPS networks of domain walls in an extended Abelian-Higgs model with complex scalar fields, and exhaust all exact soluti…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

Exact solutions of domain wall junctions in arbitrary dimensions

Minoru Eto, Masaki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta +1

Exact analytic solutions of static, stable, non-planar BPS domain wall junctions are obtained in extended Abelian-Higgs models in -dimensional spacetime. For specific choice…

hep-th2019★ 6 cited

Localization of gauge bosons and the Higgs mechanism on topological solitons in higher dimensions

Minoru Eto, Masaki Kawaguchi

We provide complete and self-contained formulas about localization of massless/massive Abelian gauge fields on topological solitons in generic dimensions via a field dependent…

hep-th2018★ 8 cited

Massless bosons on domain walls: Jackiw-Rebbi-like mechanism for bosonic fields

Masato Arai, Filip Blaschke, Minoru Eto +1

It is important to obtain (nearly) massless localized modes for the low-energy four-dimensional effective field theory in the brane-world scenario. We propose a mechanism for boson…

hep-th2018★ 1 cited

Domain Wall and Three Dimensional Duality

Minoru Eto, Toshiaki Fujimori, Muneto Nitta

We discuss 1/2 BPS domain walls in the 3d supersymmetric gauge theory which is self-dual under the 3d mirror symmetry. We find that if a BF-type coupling is introduc…

hep-th2018★ 8 cited

Localized non-Abelian gauge fields in non-compact extra-dimensions

Masato Arai, Filip Blaschke, Minoru Eto +1

Dynamical localization of non-Abelian gauge fields in non-compact flat dimensions is worked out. The localization takes place via a field-dependent gauge kinetic term when a fi…

hep-th2017★ 9 cited

Non-Abelian Gauge Field Localization on Walls and Geometric Higgs Mechanism

Masato Arai, Filip Blaschke, Minoru Eto +1

Combining the semi-classical localization mechanism for gauge fields with domain wall background in a simple gauge theory in five space-time dimensions we investigate t…

hep-th2017★ 19 cited

Grand Unified Brane World Scenario

Masato Arai, Filip Blaschke, Minoru Eto +1

We present a field theoretical model unifying grand unified theory (GUT) and brane world scenario. As a concrete example, we consider GUT in 4+1 dimensions where our 3+1 di…

hep-th2016★ 1 cited

BPS Boojums in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories II

Masato Arai, Filip Blaschke, Minoru Eto

We continue our study of 1/4 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) composite solitons of vortex strings, domain walls and boojums in N=2 supersymmetric Abelian gauge theories in fou…

hep-th2016★ 6 cited

Stabilizing semilocal strings by polarization

Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta, Kohei Sakurai

Semilocal strings are vortices in the extended Abelian-Higgs model with two complex Higgs scalar fields among which a global symmetry acts. They are known to be stable (uns…

hep-th2016★ 13 cited

Head butting sheep: Kink Collisions in the Presence of False Vacua

Jennifer Ashcroft, Minoru Eto, Mareike Haberichter +2

We investigate numerically kink collisions in a dimensional scalar field theory with multiple vacua. The domain wall model we are interested in involves two scalar fields and…