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Multilayered Vortices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-30 v2

Abstract

Vortices are localized planar structures that attain topological stability and can be used to describe collective behavior in a diversity of situations of current interest in nonlinear science. In high energy physics, vortices engender integer winding number and appear under the presence of a local Abelian symmetry. In this work we study vortices in a Maxwell-Higgs model, in which the gauge symmetry is enhanced to accommodate additional symmetries, responsible to generate localized structures to be used to constrain the vortex structure in a given region in the plane. The main aim is to examine how the vortex profile changes when it inhabits a limited region, an issue of current interest to the study of vortices at the nanometric scale.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07871,
  title  = {Multilayered Vortices},
  author = {D. Bazeia and M. A. Liao and M. A. Marques and R. Menezes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07871},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, 11 figures; v2, new results and references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. Research