New mechansim for superconductivity in cosmic strings
Allen E. Everett
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1807 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
We point out the existence of reasonable models in which cosmic strings contain charged-vector-boson fields, and show that these give rise to vector-meson superconductivity analogous to Witten’s scalar-boson superconductivity. In addition, in such models the electromagnetic field is distorted within the string in such a way that it couples to the otherwise neutral Higgs field, giving a new mechanism for scalar superconductivity.
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