Q Seminar - Michael Freedman

Event Date: 

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Event Location: 

  • 2250 Elings Hall

Event Price: 

Free

Event Contact: 

Sean Fraer

Email: seanfr@microsoft.com
Phone: 805-893-8818
Website: Click to Visit

Title: Ginzburg-Landau superconductivity with exotic covariant derivatives

Abstract:

In (very preliminary) joint work with Roman Lutchyn we consider a U(1) gauge theory coupled to a p-wave order parameter r in which the connection used to define the covariant derivative DA(r) is allowed to spill slightly outside U(1) take values in sl(2,R). I will explain some mathematical reasons that this should have interesting consequences, why it might be physical, and finally, speculate about phenomenological signatures.