Thermodynamics of vortices in the plane

DOI10.1063/1.530633zbMATH Open0799.32019arXivhep-th/9307165OpenAlexW2002884980MaRDI QIDQ4300201FDOQ4300201

Authors: P. A. Shah, N. S. Manton 

Publication date: 31 July 1994

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The thermodynamics of vortices in the critically coupled abelian Higgs model, defined on the plane, are investigated by placing $N$ vortices in a region of the plane with periodic boundary conditions: a torus. It is noted that the moduli space for $N$ vortices, which is the same as that of $N$ indistinguishable points on a torus, fibrates into a $C{P}_{N-1}$ bundle over the Jacobi manifold of the torus. The volume of the moduli space is a product of the area of the base of this bundle and the volume of the fibre. These two values are determined by considering two 2-surfaces in the bundle corresponding to a rigid motion of a vortex configuration, and a motion around a fixed centre of mass. The partition function for the vortices is proportional to the volume of the moduli space, and the equation of state for the vortices is $P(A-4piN)=NT$ in the thermodynamic limit, where $P$ is the pressure, $A$ the area of the region of the plane occupied by the vortices, and $T$ the temperature. There is no phase transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9307165

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zbMATH Keywords

torusmoduli spacesolitonsAbelian Higgs model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81)

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