2014/11/10 by Ariel Zhitnitsky, Ariel R. Zhitnitsky, Zhitnitsky, Ariel R.
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #gr-qc #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.2606
Prepare for the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP-2014), Kolymbari, Crete, 2014, 14 pages, 4 figures
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We argue that the local violation of P invariance in heavy ion collisions is a consequence of the long range topological order which is inherent feature of strongly coupled QCD. A similar phenomenon is known to occur in some topologically ordered condensed matter systems with a gap. We also discuss possible cosmological applications of this long range order in strongly coupled gauge theories. In particular, we argue that the de Sitter behaviour might be dynamically generated as a result of the long range order. In this framework the inflaton is an auxiliary field which effectively describes the dynamics of topological sectors in a gauge theory in the expanding universe, rather than a new dynamical degree of freedom.