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Perturbed Electroweak Strings and Fermion Zero Modes
Hong Liu, Tanmay Vachaspati
The effect of perturbations of electroweak strings on quark zero modes is studied in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. As first discovered by Naculich, it is found that the bosonic perturbat…
Aspects of He and the Standard Electroweak Model
G. E. Volovik, Tanmay Vachaspati
We describe certain aspects of and compare them to related aspects of the standard electroweak model of particle physics. We note various similarities in the order paramet…
An Attempt to Construct the Standard Model with Monopoles
Tanmay Vachaspati
We construct a model in which stable magnetic monopoles have magnetic charges that are identical to the electric charges on leptons and quarks and the colored monopoles are confine…
Topological Incarnations of Electroweak Defects
Thomas W. Kephart, Tanmay Vachaspati
We propose a criterion to classify hybrid defects occurring in field theoretic models such as the standard electroweak model. This criterion leads us to consider the minimal extens…
Defect Production in Slow First Order Phase Transitions
Julian Borrill, T. W. B. Kibble, Tanmay Vachaspati +1
We study the formation of vortices in a U(1) gauge theory following a first-order transition proceeding by bubble nucleation, in particular the effect of a low velocity of expansio…