Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory
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A transient color flux across null infinity in classical Yang-Mills theory is considered. It is shown that a pair of test "quarks" initially in a color singlet generically acquire net color as a result of the flux. A nonlinear formula is derived for the relative color rotation of the quarks. For a weak color flux, the formula linearizes to the Fourier transform of the soft gluon theorem. This color memory effect is the Yang-Mills analog of the gravitational memory effect.
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From a four-dimensional perspective, the color charge would therefore appear to change because of a burst of radiation, in agreement with [19].
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- Pate, M., Raclariu, A.-M., & Strominger, A.
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- Harvard University (US)
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- Physical Review Letters
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- 2017-12-28
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- 119
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- 26
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- 261602-261602
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- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W2783156025
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0007870)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
- Keywords
- Yang-Mills theory, gravitational memory, classical gauge theory
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