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Main Authors: Krusch, Steffen, Rees, Morgan, Winyard, Thomas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04164
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author Krusch, Steffen
Rees, Morgan
Winyard, Thomas
author_facet Krusch, Steffen
Rees, Morgan
Winyard, Thomas
contents We consider head-on collisions at critical coupling of vortices modelled by the Abelian-Higgs model. We investigate the 2-vortex scattering, whereby the vortices are excited by the shape mode causing fluctuations in the gauge-invariant quantities. When the vortices are excited with a sufficiently large amplitude the moduli space approximation fails, and we observe an interesting behaviour in which the vortices can become trapped in a quasi-bound state with multiple bounces. We perform a detailed investigation on the behaviour of these excited vortices and sample a phase space of solutions. Interestingly, we find a fractal structure dependent on the initial phase of the mode and velocity of the vortices.
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spellingShingle Scattering of Vortices with Excited Normal Modes
Krusch, Steffen
Rees, Morgan
Winyard, Thomas
Mathematical Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
We consider head-on collisions at critical coupling of vortices modelled by the Abelian-Higgs model. We investigate the 2-vortex scattering, whereby the vortices are excited by the shape mode causing fluctuations in the gauge-invariant quantities. When the vortices are excited with a sufficiently large amplitude the moduli space approximation fails, and we observe an interesting behaviour in which the vortices can become trapped in a quasi-bound state with multiple bounces. We perform a detailed investigation on the behaviour of these excited vortices and sample a phase space of solutions. Interestingly, we find a fractal structure dependent on the initial phase of the mode and velocity of the vortices.
title Scattering of Vortices with Excited Normal Modes
topic Mathematical Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04164