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Superconducting Josephson vortices have direct analogues in ultracold-atom physics as solitary-wave excitations of two-component superfluid Bose gases with linear coupling. Here we numerically extend the zero-velocity Josephson vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-20 Sophie S. Shamailov , Joachim Brand

Considering s-wave pairing in an electron-hole double layer of two chiral metals, we study the Josephson effect generated by a domain wall. The latter, which is caused by a jump of the order parameter phase, creates two independent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-22 Klaus Ziegler

The Josephson-plasma and vortex modes in layered superconductors have been studied theoretically for low magnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to layers. The two modes belong to the same lowest-frequency branch of collective-mode…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 E. B. Sonin

Nonlinear wave propagation plays a crucial role in the functioning of many physical and biophysical systems. In the propagation regime, disturbances due to the presence of local external perturbations, such as localised defects or boundary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-20 Juan F. Marín

Understanding the nature of vortices in type-II superconductors is crucial for comprehending exotic superconductors and advancing the application of superconducting materials in future electronic devices. This study uses spectroscopic…

Vortons are closed loops of superconducting cosmic strings carrying current and charge. In this paper we present the first numerical construction of vortons in the global version of Witten's U(1)xU(1) theory. An energy minimization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Richard Battye , Paul Sutcliffe

Yang-Mills instantons in a pure Yang-Mills theory in four Euclidean space can be promoted to particle-like topological solitons in d=4+1 dimensional space-time. When coupled to Higgs fields, they transform themselves in the Higgs phase into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-13 Muneto Nitta

In order to clarify the ``superradiant'' conditions for the moving Josephson vortices to excite in-phase AC electromagnetic fields over all junctions, we perform large scale simulations of realistic dimensions for intrinsic Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Machida , T. Koyama , A. Tanaka , M. Tachiki

We formulate a duality transformation for a bilayer XY model where the layers are coupled by second order Josephson effect, which favors inter-layer phase difference of either $0$ or $\pi$. The model may represent a bilayer superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Pye Ton How , Sungkit Yip

A two dimensional array of Josephson junctions in a magnetic field is considered. It is shown that the dynamics of the vortices in the array resembles that of electrons on a two--dimensional lattice put in a magnetic field perpendicular to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ady Stern

Experiments indicating the excitation of whispering gallery type electromagnetic modes by a vortex moving in an annular Josephson junction are reported. At relativistic velocities the Josephson vortex interacts with the modes of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wallraff , A. V. Ustinov , V. V. Kurin , I. A. Shereshevsky , N. K. Vdovicheva

In a recent article, Yefsah et al. [Nature 499, 426 (2013)] report the observation of an unusual excitation in an elongated harmonically trapped unitary Fermi gas. After phase imprinting a domain wall, they observe oscillations almost an…

In ultracold atoms, bosons tunneling in a double-well potential can produce a typical Josephson junction in real space. A major advancement in quantum matter and simulations is anticipated by the recently found momentum-space Josephson…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-14 Sunayana Dutta , Ofir E. Alon

Domain wall skyrmions are skyrmions trapped inside a domain wall. We investigate domain wall skyrmions in chiral magnets using a fully analytic approach. Treating the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction perturbatively, we construct the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Calum Ross , Muneto Nitta

Consideration of the balance of forces on superconducting condensate at low frequencies leads to the well-known Josephson Relation. Using the Ginzburg-Landau expression for the current, an expression relating the electric field to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-09-27 Pei-Jen Lin , P. Lipavský , Peter Matlock

In recent years there has been an intensive search for Majorana fermion states in condensed matter systems. Predicted to be localized on cores of vortices in certain non-conventional superconductors, their presence is known to render the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-30 Eytan Grosfeld , Ady Stern

In this note, we summarize recent progress in constructing and then semi-classically quantizing solitons, or non-abelian Q-balls, in the symmetric space sine-Gordon theories. We then consider the images of these solitons in the related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Timothy J. Hollowood , J. Luis Miramontes

Magnetic flux quanta, of value h/2e, in long Josephson junctions behave as (quasi) solitons. Fluxon dynamical states are well described by a perturbed sine-Gordon equation model, with boundary conditions determined by the junction geometry…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-09-25 R. D. Parmentier

Vortices are found in a fermion system with repulsive dipole-dipole interactions, trapped by a rotating quasi-two-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential. Such systems have much in common with electrons in quantum dots, where rotation is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-11 G. Eriksson , J. C. Cremon , M. Manninen , S. M. Reimann

We present field theory simulations of a model with Z_2xU(1) symmetry in (2+1)-dimensions. This model has two discrete vacua, allowing for domain walls, and also a conserved Noether charge. For initial conditions in which the field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-02 Richard A. Battye , Jonathan A. Pearson , Simon Pike , Paul M. Sutcliffe