Giga fine-structure constant in photonic solitons

TL;DR

This paper explores the properties of photonic solitons characterized by a giga fine-structure constant in mesoscopic instantons within doped Nb metal, revealing complex topological and quantum features with potential applications in quantum computing.

Contribution

It introduces a new classification of photonic solitons into six flavours based on topological sectors and explores their unique properties and potential applications.

Findings

Identification of a giga fine-structure constant NI*alpha in solitons

Classification of solitons into six flavours across two topological sectors

Observation of high Q-factor chiral superfluid and superconducting phases

Abstract

We report on the flavour physics of mesoscopic instantons found primarily in a pure Nb metal, doped magnetically by long-lived Mossbauer 93mNb gamas. A giga fine-structure constant NI*alpha characterizes various properties of the soliton, in which NI ~ 3 * 10^10 is the instanton number. A hierarchy of photonic solitons is classified into six flavours, i.e., three generations in each of two homotopy classes. The underdoped metallic heterostructure contains two topologically distinct sectors. When the gama-dopant filling factor > 0.88, the nontrivial sector becomes a chiral superfluid at T >> 300 K to provide a gama-clock Q-factor > 10^27 for some decades, while the trivial sector becomes a superconductor below 9.3 K. Distinct soliton flavours carrying Kopnin masses > 14 PeV, Majorana mass < 36 aeV, and nuclear B > 35000 T imply a range of possible applications, e.g., topological quantum computation and the detection of invisible particles.