Collision dynamics and rung formation of non-Abelian vortices.
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.
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Michikazu
M
Kobayashi
Yuki
Y
Kawaguchi
Muneto
M
Nitta
Masahito
M
Ueda