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A monopole solution from noncommutative multi-instantons
We extend the relation between instanton and monopole solutions of the
selfduality equations in SU(2) gauge theory to noncommutative space-times.
Using this approach and starting from a noncommutative multi-instanton solution
we construct a U(2) monopole configuration which lives in 3 dimensional
ordinary space. This configuration resembles the Wu-Yang monopole and satisfies
the selfduality (Bogomol'nyi) equations for a U(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs system.Comment: 19 pages; title and abstract changed, brane interpretation corrected.
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Effect of nanosize BaZrO3 inclusions on vortex parameters in YBaCuO
We report on the field dependence of the microwave complex resistivity data
in YBaCuO/BaZrO films grown by PLD at various BaZrO
content. The data, analyzed within a recently developed general framework for
the mixed-state microwave response of superconductors, yield the field
dependence of the fluxon parameters such as the vortex viscosity and the
pinning constant. We find that pinning undergoes a change of regime when the
BaZrO content in the target increases from 2.5 mol.% to 5 mol.%.
Simultaneously, the vortex viscosity becomes an increasing function of the
applied magnetic field. We propose a scenario in which flux lines are pinned as
bundles, and a crossover from dilute point pins to dense c-axis correlated
defects takes place between 2.5 and 5 mol.% in the BZO concentration. Our data
are inconsistent with vortices occupying mainly the BaZrO sites at low
fields, and suggest instead that vortices occupy both BaZrO sites and
interstitials in the YBaCuO matrix, even at low fields.Comment: Presented at EUCAS 2009, to be published in J. Phys.:Conf. Serie
Radiative corrections in bumblebee electrodynamics
We investigate some quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics in flat
spacetimes. The bumblebee field is a vector field that leads to a spontaneous
Lorentz symmetry breaking. For a smooth quadratic potential, the massless
excitation (Nambu-Goldstone boson) can be identified as the photon, transversal
to the vacuum expectation value of the bumblebee field. Besides, there is a
massive excitation associated with the longitudinal mode and whose presence
leads to instability in the spectrum of the theory. By using the
principal-value prescription, we show that no one-loop radiative corrections to
the mass term is generated. Moreover, the bumblebee self-energy is not
transverse, showing that the propagation of the longitudinal mode can not be
excluded from the effective theory.Comment: Revised version: contains some more elaborated interpretation of the
results. Conclusions improve
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