Apparently superluminal superfluids

We consider the superfluid phase of a specific renormalizable relativistic quantum field theory. We prove that, within the regime of validity of perturbation theory and of the superfluid effective theory, there are consistent and regular vortex solutions where the superfluid’s velocity field as trad...

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Main Authors: Kourkoulou, Ioanna, Landry, Michael J., Nicolis, Alberto, Parmentier, Klaas
其他作者: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
格式: Article
語言:English
出版: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2024
在線閱讀:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153397
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總結:We consider the superfluid phase of a specific renormalizable relativistic quantum field theory. We prove that, within the regime of validity of perturbation theory and of the superfluid effective theory, there are consistent and regular vortex solutions where the superfluid’s velocity field as traditionally defined smoothly interpolates between zero and arbitrarily large superluminal values. We show that this solution is free of instabilities and of superluminal excitations. We show that, in contrast, a generic vortex solution for an ordinary fluid does develop an instability if the velocity field becomes superluminal. All this questions the characterization of a superfluid velocity field as the actual velocity of “something”.