Motion in a Bose condensate: IX. Crow instability of antiparallel vortex pairs

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DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/47/311zbMATH Open1053.82525arXivcond-mat/0106547OpenAlexW3104090397MaRDI QIDQ4533715FDOQ4533715


Authors: Natalia G. Berloff, Paul H. Roberts Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 11 June 2002

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

Abstract: The Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation admits a two-dimensional solitary wave solution representing two mutually self-propelled, anti-parallel straight line vortices. The complete sequence of such solitary wave solutions has been computed by Jones and Roberts (J. Phys. A, 15, 2599, 1982). These solutions are unstable with respect to three-dimensional perturbations (the Crow instability). The most unstable mode has a wavelength along the direction of the vortices of the same order as their separation. The growth rate associated with this mode is evaluated here, and it is found to increase very rapidly with decreasing separation. It is shown, through numerical integrations of the GP equation that, as the perturbations grow to finite amplitude, the lines reconnect to produce a sequence of almost circular vortex rings.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106547




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