Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory

Pate, Monica; Raclariu, Ana-Maria; Strominger, Andrew

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261602

Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory

Journal Article · Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261602· OSTI ID:1598789

Pate, Monica ^[1]; Raclariu, Ana-Maria ^[2]; Strominger, Andrew ^[2]

Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature; Harvard University
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature

A transient color flux across null infinity in classical Yang-Mills theory is considered here. It is shown that a pair of test `quarks' initially in a color singlet generically acquire net color as a result of the flux. A nonlinear formula is derived for the relative color rotation of the quarks. For weak color flux the formula linearizes to the Fourier transform of the soft gluon theorem. Furthermore, this color memory effect is the Yang-Mills analog of the gravitational memory effect.

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Research Organization:: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0007870

OSTI ID:: 1598789

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1416438
OSTI ID: 1541261

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 26 Vol. 119; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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