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Main Authors: Albayrak, Omer, Vachaspati, Tanmay
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10115
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author Albayrak, Omer
Vachaspati, Tanmay
author_facet Albayrak, Omer
Vachaspati, Tanmay
contents We study global vortex production in (numerical) scattering experiments when the scatterer and the vortex degrees of freedom interact only due to intermediary quantum variables. We work in $2+1$ dimensions with a complex scalar field, $ϕ$, that supports global vortices, a real scalar field, $ψ$, that is the scatterer, and a quantum field, $ρ$, that couples to both $ϕ$ and $ψ$, acting as a mediator. We simulate the scattering of relativistic Gaussian wavepackets of $ψ$ and scan parameter space for regions where vortex-antivortex pairs are produced. The results show that vortex production is highly sensitive to the initial Gaussian parameters, and the parameter space is chaotic with ``holes" and isolated regions of vortex production.
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spellingShingle Production of global vortices with quantum mediation
Albayrak, Omer
Vachaspati, Tanmay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study global vortex production in (numerical) scattering experiments when the scatterer and the vortex degrees of freedom interact only due to intermediary quantum variables. We work in $2+1$ dimensions with a complex scalar field, $ϕ$, that supports global vortices, a real scalar field, $ψ$, that is the scatterer, and a quantum field, $ρ$, that couples to both $ϕ$ and $ψ$, acting as a mediator. We simulate the scattering of relativistic Gaussian wavepackets of $ψ$ and scan parameter space for regions where vortex-antivortex pairs are produced. The results show that vortex production is highly sensitive to the initial Gaussian parameters, and the parameter space is chaotic with ``holes" and isolated regions of vortex production.
title Production of global vortices with quantum mediation
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10115