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Anomalous energetics and dynamics of moving vortices

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-12-16 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the general problem of moving topological defects in an otherwise ordered state and specifically, by the anomalous dynamics observed in vortex-antivortex annihilation and coarsening experiments in freely-suspended smectic-C films by Clark, et al., I study the deformation, energetics and dynamics of moving vortices in an overdamped xy-model and show that their properties are significantly and qualitatively modified by the motion.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02686,
  title  = {Anomalous energetics and dynamics of moving vortices},
  author = {Leo Radzihovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02686},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures