Speaker
Dennis Sivers
(Portland Physics Institute and University of Michigan)
Description
We present a field-strength description for a simple system of SU(2) charges with spherical symmetry and confining boundary conditions. The static Yang-Mills Maxwell equations admit three types of solutions for this system. Type-0 solutions have no topological structure. Type-1 and Type-2 solutions involve a topologically charge domain wall consisting of a surface volume with CP-odd field strength density. Type-1 solutions display an exterior volume resembling a magnetic condensate while type-2 solutions have an exterior field-free volume with vacuum quantum numbers. In analogy to the kink-solution in the 1+1 dimensional Abelian Higgs model we argue that type-2 solutions should contain a mass gap.
Primary author
Dennis Sivers
(Portland Physics Institute and University of Michigan)
