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Dynamics of superconducting strings with chiral currents

J. J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Alexander Vilenkin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.103513 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

We rederive, using an elementary formalism, the general solution to the equations of motion for a superconducting string with a chiral (null) neutral current, earlier obtained by Carter and Peter. We apply this solution to show that the motion of such string loops is strictly periodic and analyze cusp-like behavior and vorton solutions of arbitrary shape. We argue that this solution can be used to approximately describe the dynamics of superconducting strings with small non-chiral currents. We use this description to estimate the electromagnetic radiation power from such strings.

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