Short range intervortex forces

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Main Authors: Speight, Martin, Winyard, Thomas
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Published: 2025
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Winyard, Thomas
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Winyard, Thomas
contents An explicit formula for the interaction energy of $n$ vortices in the abelian Higgs (or Ginzburg-Landau) model is derived, valid in the regime where all vortices are close to one another. An immediate consequence of this formula is that the interaction energy of a vortex pair with separation $d$ varies as $d^4$, not $d^2$. The formula contains $n-1$ real coefficients which are fixed by certain spectral data of the Jacobi operator of the cocentred $n$-vortex. The coefficients are computed numerically for $n=2$ and $n=3$ for couplings $0.1\leq λ\leq 2.5$. The resulting short range interaction potentials are compared with the results of full field theory simulations for $λ=0.5$ and $λ=2$, with excellent agreement at small to moderate vortex separation.
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Speight, Martin
Winyard, Thomas
High Energy Physics - Theory
Superconductivity
An explicit formula for the interaction energy of $n$ vortices in the abelian Higgs (or Ginzburg-Landau) model is derived, valid in the regime where all vortices are close to one another. An immediate consequence of this formula is that the interaction energy of a vortex pair with separation $d$ varies as $d^4$, not $d^2$. The formula contains $n-1$ real coefficients which are fixed by certain spectral data of the Jacobi operator of the cocentred $n$-vortex. The coefficients are computed numerically for $n=2$ and $n=3$ for couplings $0.1\leq λ\leq 2.5$. The resulting short range interaction potentials are compared with the results of full field theory simulations for $λ=0.5$ and $λ=2$, with excellent agreement at small to moderate vortex separation.
title Short range intervortex forces
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10438