Flux dualization in broken SU(2)
Chandrasekhar Chatterjee, Amitabha Lahiri
TL;DR
This paper explores the dualization of a broken SU(2) gauge theory, revealing how magnetic monopoles and flux tubes emerge and are interconnected in the effective theory.
Contribution
It introduces a dualized effective theory describing magnetic flux tubes and monopoles in a broken SU(2) gauge framework.
Findings
Magnetic monopoles are attached to flux tubes.
Flux is confined within the tubes.
The dual theory provides a macroscopic description of the flux and monopoles.
Abstract
An SU(2) gauge theory is broken to U(1) by an adjoint scalar to produce magnetic monopoles. At a lower scale, this U(1) is further broken by a fundamental scalar to produce tubes of magnetic flux. We dualize the resulting theory to write an effective theory in terms of the macroscopic string variables. The monopoles are attached to the ends of the strings, and the flux is confined in the tubes.
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