The Meissner effect for superconductors in spacetimes with tor-sion is revisited.Two new physical interpretations are presented.The first considers the Landau-Ginzburg theory yields a new symmetry-breaking vacuum depending on torsion.In the second interpretation a gravitational Meissner torsional effect where when the Higgs field vanishes, torsion and electromagnetic fields need not vanish and ...

A description of confinement in QCD requires the presence of magnetic monopoles[1]. The resulting effective theory can be interpretted as producing dual Meissner effect [2] responsible for confinement. Lattice QCD studies indicate that monopoles cover the physical vacuum in the confining phase[3]. Confinement is in the infrared regime where the QCD coupling is large so that one has to use non-p...

Recent research has demonstrated that verbal overshadowing occurs when a witness is forced to provide details of the culprit that are not readily available, but the effect does not occur when the witness is warned to provide only the information they are absolutely sure of (Meissner et al., 2001). The present study attempts to replicate this effect and to further examine the instructional manip...

We investigate the dual superconductivity hypothesis in pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory. We focus on the dual Meissner effect by analyzing the distribution of the color fields due to a static quark-antiquark pair. We find evidence of the dual Meissner effect both in the maximally Abelian gauge and without gauge fixing. We measure the London penetration length. Our results suggest that the Londo...

We perform lattice Monte-Carlo simulations of pure SU(2) QCD using the multi-level method. We find Abelian dominance in local unitary gauges such as those diagonalizing a plaquette. A static potential described by Abelian link fields alone gives us the same string tension as that of a non-Abelian potential. Abelian dominance of the string tension and Abelian flux tube profiles are observed also...

We map out the phase boundary separating the vortex solid and liquid phases in YBa2Cu3O72d ~YBCO! single crystals with irradiation-induced columnar defects. These randomly distributed, extended defects are expected to localize vortices into a ‘‘Bose glass’’ phase. The transition from the vortex liquid into the Bose glass is predicted to exhibit two fundamental signatures: a vanishing of the lin...