Standard model as the topological material

G. E. Volovik; M. A. Zubkov

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa573d

Standard model as the topological material

G. E. Volovik^*
, M. A. Zubkov

^*Corresponding author for this work

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Le Studium
Université de Tours

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Abstract

The study of the Weyl and Dirac topological materials (topological semimetals, insulators, superfluids and superconductors) opens the route for the investigation of the topological quantum vacua of relativistic fields. The symmetric phase of the standard model (SM), where both electroweak and chiral symmetry are not broken, represents the topological semimetal. The vacua of the SM (and its extensions) in the phases with broken electroweak symmetry represent the topological insulators of different types. We discuss in detail the topological invariants in both the symmetric and broken phases and establish their relation to the stability of vacuum.

Original language	English
Article number	015009
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa573d
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Dirac fermions
standard model
topological stability
Weyl fermions

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