Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1807 - 1810 (1988)New mechansim for superconductivity in cosmic strings |
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Allen E. Everett
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155
Received 12 February 1988
We point out the existence of reasonable models in which cosmic strings contain charged-vector-boson fields, and show that these give rise to vector-meson superconductivity analogous to Witten’s scalar-boson superconductivity. In addition, in such models the electromagnetic field is distorted within the string in such a way that it couples to the otherwise neutral Higgs field, giving a new mechanism for scalar superconductivity.
©1988 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v61/p1807
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1807
PACS: 98.80.Cq, 11.15.Ex, 11.15.Kc
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