Landscape of QCD vacuum
We found new solutions of the sourceless Yang-Mills equation describing the superposition of chromomagnetic vortices of oppositely oriented magnetic fluxes. These gauge field configurations have constant energy densities and are separated by potential barriers forming a complicated landscape. It is suggested that the solutions describe the condensate of chromomagnetic vortices and represent a dual analog of the Cooper pairs condensate in a superconductor. In the presence of an Abelian field and in a particular limit the solutions reduce to flat connections of zero energy density and are forming a complicated potential landscape of the QCD vacuum. A possible tunnelling transition between these superfluxon flat configurations and the flat configurations with non-vanishing Chern-Pontryagin index will wash out the CP violating θ angle to zero, dynamically restoring CP symmetry.
Authors
- George Savvidy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0699-570X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics Letters B
- Published
- 2025-02-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139337
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87