Emergent Majorana mass and axion couplings in superfluids
Axions (in the general sense) may acquire qualitatively new couplings inside superfluids. Their conventional couplings to fermions, in empty space, involve purely imaginary masses; the new couplings involve emergent Majorana masses. A generalized concept of Majorana mass is proposed, which allows co...
Main Author: | Frank Wilczek |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2014-01-01
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Series: | New Journal of Physics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/8/082003 |
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