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Remarks on Decay of Defects with Internal Degrees of Freedom

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Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields

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We consider the examples of the chiral magnetic effect and the similar processes related to the decays of the extended objects in different theories. The examples involve the decay of an axion wall in an external magnetic field, pionic walls, metastable walls in dense QCD.

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I thanks to M. Voloshin for the collaboration on these issues.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117259, Russia

    A. Gorsky

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  1. Department of Physics, Stony Brook University, Nicolls Rd 100, Stony Brook, 11794, New York, USA

    Dmitri Kharzeev

  2. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Nicolas Cabrera 13-15, Madrid, 28049, Spain

    Karl Landsteiner

  3. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Haupstr. 8, Wien, 1040, Austria

    Andreas Schmitt

  4. Physics Department (MC 273), University of Illinois at Chicago, West Taylor Street 845Rm 2236, Chicago, 60607, Illinois, USA

    Ho-Ung Yee

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Gorsky, A. (2013). Remarks on Decay of Defects with Internal Degrees of Freedom. In: Kharzeev, D., Landsteiner, K., Schmitt, A., Yee, HU. (eds) Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 871. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37305-3_12

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