Charged vacuum condensate near a superconducting cosmic string

J. R.S. Nascimento; Inyong Cho; Alexander Vilenkin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.60.083505

Charged vacuum condensate near a superconducting cosmic string

J. R.S. Nascimento, Inyong Cho, Alexander Vilenkin

School of Natural Sciences

Tufts University

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A charged superconducting cosmic string produces an extremely large electric field in its vicinity. This leads to vacuum instability and to the formation of a charged vacuum condensate which screens the electric charge of the string. We analyze the structure of this condensate using the Thomas-Fermi method.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	60
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.083505
State	Published - 1999

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