Quantum field theory of vortices in superfluid films
Abstract
A quantum field theory, consisting of the effective action of sound waves linearly coupled to a Chern-Simons term, is proposed to describe the dynamics of vortices in a superfluid film at the absolute zero of temperature.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- May 1998
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9802241
- Bibcode:
- 1998PhLA..242...99K
- Keywords:
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- QUANTUM VORTICES;
- CHERN-SIMONS THEORY;
- PHONON-VORTEX SCATTERING;
- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. A