Stability analysis of non-Abelian electric fields

Jude Pereira; Tanmay Vachaspati

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.096019

Stability analysis of non-Abelian electric fields

Jude Pereira, Tanmay Vachaspati

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We study the stability of fluctuations around a homogeneous non-Abelian electric field background that is of a form that is protected from Schwinger pair production. Our analysis identifies the unstable modes and we find a limiting set of parameters for which there are no instabilities. We discuss potential implications of our analysis for confining strings in non-Abelian gauge theories.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	096019
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	106
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.096019
State	Published - Nov 1 2022

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