Gauged vortices in a background
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Publication:5703433
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/41/020zbMATH Open1079.82005arXivhep-th/0503014OpenAlexW2008966863MaRDI QIDQ5703433
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Publication date: 8 November 2005
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Abstract: We discuss the statistical mechanics of a gas of gauged vortices in the canonical formalism. At critical self-coupling, and for low temperatures, it has been argued that the configuration space for vortex dynamics in each topological class of the abelian Higgs model approximately truncates to a finite-dimensional moduli space with a Kaehler structure. For the case where the vortices live on a 2-sphere, we explain how localisation formulas on the moduli spaces can be used to compute explicitly the partition function of the vortex gas interacting with a background potential. The coefficients of this analytic function provide geometrical data about the Kaehler structures, the simplest of which being their symplectic volume (computed previously by Manton using an alternative argument). We use the partition function to deduce simple results on the thermodynamics of the vortex system; in particular, the average height on the sphere is computed and provides an interesting effective picture of the ground state.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503014
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