Standard model as the topological material

The study of the Weyl and Dirac topological materials (topological semimetals, insulators, superfluids and superconductors) opens the route for the investigation of the topological quantum vacua of relativistic fields. The symmetric phase of the standard model (SM), where both electroweak and chiral...

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Published inNew journal of physics Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 15009 - 15021
Main Authors Volovik, G E, Zubkov, M A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.01.2017
Institute of Physics: Open Access Journals
Subjects
Dirac fermions
Electroweak model
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Metalloids
Physics
standard model
Symmetry
Topological insulators
topological stability
Topology
Weyl fermions
topological insulator
superconductivity
symmetry breaking
symmetry: chiral
superfluid
vacuum: stability
vacuum state: quantum
electroweak interaction
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Summary:The study of the Weyl and Dirac topological materials (topological semimetals, insulators, superfluids and superconductors) opens the route for the investigation of the topological quantum vacua of relativistic fields. The symmetric phase of the standard model (SM), where both electroweak and chiral symmetry are not broken, represents the topological semimetal. The vacua of the SM (and its extensions) in the phases with broken electroweak symmetry represent the topological insulators of different types. We discuss in detail the topological invariants in both the symmetric and broken phases and establish their relation to the stability of vacuum.
Bibliography:NJP-105670.R1
ISSN:1367-2630
1367-2630
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/aa573d