Scattering of Vortices at near-critical coupling

Details Scattering of Vortices at near-critical coupling Scattering of Vortices at near-critical coupling

1994-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9402075v2

Nucl.Phys. B429 (1994) 259-276

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

18 pages (9 figures). Clarifications of the validity of the approximations made are included, minor typos corrected, and ackno

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(94)00250-9

The scattering of vortices at a critical value of the coupling constant in the Lagrangian can be approximated by a geodesic motion in the moduli space of classical static configurations of vortices. In this paper we give a scheme for generalising this idea to couplings that are near to the critical value. By perturbing a critically coupled field, we show that scattering of vortices at near-critical coupling can be approximated by motion in the original moduli space with a perturbed metric, and a potential. We apply this method to the scattering of two vortices, and compare our results to recent numerical simulations, and find good agreement where the scattering is not highly sensitive to radiation into other field modes. We also investigate the possibility of bound stable orbits of two vortices in the quantum field theory.

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