Stability analysis of non-Abelian electric fields

ORAL

Abstract

We study the stability of fluctuations around a homogeneous non-Abelian electric field background that is of a form that is protected from Schwinger pair production. Our analysis identifies the unstable modes and we find a limiting set of parameters for which there are no instabilities. We discuss the potential implications of our analysis for confining strings in non-Abelian gauge theories.

*2022 Summer Graduate Fellowship by the Department of Physics, Arizona State University

Publication: J. Pereira and T. Vachaspati, [arXiv:2207.05102 [hep-th]]

Presenters

  • Jude Pereira

    • Arizona State University

Authors

  • Jude Pereira

    • Arizona State University
  • Tanmay Vachaspati

    • Arizona State University