Core Phase Transitions for Embedded Topological Defects
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Vortices in superfluid 3He-B have been observed to undergo a core transition. We discuss the analog phenomenon in relativistic field theories which admit embedded global domain walls, vortices and monopoles with a core phase structure. They are present in scalar field theories with approximate global symmetries which are broken both spontaneously and in parts explicitly. For a particular range of parameters their symmetric core exhibits an instability and decays into the nonsymmetric phase.
Talk presented at the "Formation of Topological Defects" ESF Network Meeting, Grenoble, France, September 1997
Talk presented at the "Formation of Topological Defects" ESF Network Meeting, Grenoble, France, September 1997