First order vortex dynamics

Jan, 1997
22 pages
Published in:
  • Annals Phys. 256 (1997) 114-131
e-Print:
Report number:
  • DAMTP-96-111

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Abstract:
A non-dissipative model for vortex motion in thin superconductors is considered. The Lagrangian is a Galilean invariant version of the Ginzburg--Landau model for time-dependent fields, with kinetic terms linear in the first time derivatives of the fields. It is shown how, for certain values of the coupling constants, the field dynamics can be reduced to first order differential equations for the vortex positions. Two vortices circle around one another at constant speed and separation in this model.
Note:
  • 22pages, no figures, tex file Report-no: DAMTP 96-111
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • Higgs model
  • dimension: 3
  • Landau-Ginzburg model
  • model: superconductivity
  • Chern-Simons term
  • field equations: vortex