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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2001 Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages 182–185 (Mi jetpl4316)

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GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS

Reentrant violation of special relativity in the low-energy corner

G. E. Volovikab

a Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
b L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: In the effective relativistic quantum field theories the energy region, where the special relativity holds, can be sandwiched from both the high and low energies sides by domains where the special relativity is violated. An example is provided by $^3$He-A where the relativistic quantum field theory emerges as the effective theory. The reentrant violation of the special relativity in the ultralow energy corner is accompanied by the redistribution of the momentum-space topological charges between the fermionic flavors. At this ultralow energy an exotic massless fermion with the topological charge $N_3=2$ arises, whose energy spectrum mixes the classical and relativistic behavior. This effect can lead to neutrino oscillations if neutrino flavors are still massless at this energy scale.

PACS: 11.30.-j, 14.60.Pq, 67.57.-z

Received: 25.01.2001

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2001, 73:4, 162–165

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