Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 300
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4872-z

Letter

Meissner effect and a stringlike interaction

¹ Department of Physics at Hiyoshi, and Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University, Hiyoshi 4-1-1, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 223-8521, Japan
² S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block JD, Sector III, Kolkata, 700106, Salt Lake, India

^* e-mail: chandra@phys-h.keio.ac.jp
^** e-mail: chandra.chttrj@gmail.com

Received: 8 April 2017
Accepted: 27 April 2017
Published online: 10 May 2017

Abstract

We find that a recently proposed interaction involving the vorticity current of electrons, which radiatively induces a photon mass in dimensions in the low-energy effective theory, corresponds to confining strings (linear potential) between electrons.