Meron (physics)
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A meron or half-instanton is a Euclidean space-time solution of the Yang–Mills field equations. It is a singular non-self-dual solution of topological charge 1/2. The instanton is believed to be composed of two merons.[1]
A meron can be viewed as a tunneling event between two Gribov vacua.[2] In that picture, the meron is an event which starts from vacuum, then a Wu–Yang monopole emerges, which then disappears again to leave the vacuum in another Gribov copy.
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[edit | edit source]- Gauge Fields, Classification and Equations of Motion, Moshe Carmeli, Kh. Huleilil and Elhanan Leibowitz, World Scientific Publishing
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