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Instanton
About: Instanton is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8937 publications have been published within this topic receiving 291907 citations. The topic is also known as: pseudoparticle.
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TL;DR: In this article, the color gauge theory of strong interactions without arbitrary adjustment of parameters is analyzed and several possibilities are identified, including one which would give a remarkable new kind of very light, long-lived pseudoscalar boson.
Abstract: The requirement that P and T be approximately conserved in the color gauge theory of strong interactions without arbitrary adjustment of parameters is analyzed. Several possibilities are identified, including one which would give a remarkable new kind of very light, long-lived pseudoscalar boson.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied four dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories with matter multiplets and derived the exact metric on the moduli space of quantum vacua and the exact spectrum of the stable massive states.
2,550 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors find regular solutions of the four dimensional euclidean Yang-Mills equations and show that these solutions minimize locally the action integrals, which is finite in this case.
2,315 citations
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TL;DR: The generalization of field theory to space-time with noncommuting coordinates has been studied intensively in the last few years and many qualitatively new phenomena have been discovered, on both the classical and quantum level as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This article reviews the generalization of field theory to space-time with noncommuting coordinates, starting with the basics and covering most of the active directions of research. Such theories are now known to emerge from limits of M theory and string theory and to describe quantum Hall states. In the last few years they have been studied intensively, and many qualitatively new phenomena have been discovered, on both the classical and the quantum level.
2,306 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed quantitative calculation is carried out of the tunneling process described by the Belavin-Polyakov-Schwarz-Tyupkin field configuration, where a certain chiral symmetry is violated as a consequence of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly.
Abstract: A detailed quantitative calculation is carried out of the tunneling process described by the Belavin-Polyakov-Schwarz-Tyupkin field configuration. A certain chiral symmetry is violated as a consequence of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly. The collective motions of the pseudoparticle and all contributions from single loops of scalar, spinor, and vector fields are taken into account. The result is an effective interaction Lagrangian for the spinors.
2,171 citations