Topological charge and chiral anomalies in Fermi superfluids

Journal Article · Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 1987 · Ann. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-4916(87)80014-3· OSTI ID:6118754

Stone, M; Gaitan, F

We review some of the topological properties of Fermi superfluids, in particular the persistent currents in superfluid /sup 3/He. We show that the topological charge formalism developed by Garg et al. is related to the chiral anomaly viewpoint of Volovik and co-workers through the Callan--Harvey effect. We stress that the question of the existence of a ''twist'' term in the current induced by a texture is a history-dependent phenomenon which depends on how the textures are envisaged as being created. copyright 1987 Academic Press, Inc.

• Research Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics, Loomis Laboratory, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
• OSTI ID: 6118754
• Journal Information: Ann. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States), Vol. 178:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SUPERFLUIDITY
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