Multilayered Vortices

TL;DR

This paper investigates how vortex structures in a Maxwell-Higgs model are affected when confined to limited regions, relevant for understanding nanoscale vortex behavior in nonlinear systems.

Contribution

It introduces a study of vortex profiles within a Maxwell-Higgs framework with enhanced symmetries, focusing on confinement effects at small scales.

Findings

Vortex profiles are significantly altered by spatial confinement.

Enhanced symmetries influence vortex stability and structure.

Results are relevant for nanoscale vortex applications.

Abstract

Vortices are localized planar structures that attain topological stability and can be used to describe collective behavior in a diversity of situations of current interest in nonlinear science. In high energy physics, vortices engender integer winding number and appear under the presence of a local Abelian symmetry. In this work we study vortices in a Maxwell-Higgs model, in which the gauge symmetry is enhanced to accommodate additional symmetries, responsible to generate localized structures to be used to constrain the vortex structure in a given region in the plane. The main aim is to examine how the vortex profile changes when it inhabits a limited region, an issue of current interest to the study of vortices at the nanometric scale.