Vortex Entanglement and Broken Symmetry
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
Based on the London approximation, we investigate numerically the stability of the elementary configurations of entanglement, the twisted-pair and the twisted-triplet, in the vortex-lattice and -liquid phases. We find that, except for the dilute limit, the twisted-pair is unstable and hence irrelevant in the discussion of entanglement. In the lattice phase the twisted-triplet constitutes a metastable, confined configuration of high energy. Loss of lattice symmetry upon melting leads to deconfinement and the twisted-triplet turns into a low-energy helical configuration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9504067,
title = {Vortex Entanglement and Broken Symmetry},
author = {Andreas Schönenberger and Vadim Geshkenbein and Gianni Blatter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9504067},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, RevTex, 2 figures on request