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Preparation of Free-Surface Hyperbolic Water Vortices
Published on: July 28, 2023
Collision dynamics and rung formation of non-Abelian vortices
Michikazu Kobayashi1, Yuki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta
1Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Abstract:
We investigate the collision dynamics of two non-Abelian vortices and find that, unlike Abelian vortices, they neither reconnect themselves nor pass through each other, but create a rung between them in a topologically stable manner. Our predictions are verified using the model of the cyclic phase of a spin-2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate.
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