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Title
Multivortex states and dynamics in nonequilibrium polariton condensates
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Abstract
In strongly nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates described by the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation, vortex motion becomes self-accelerated while the long-range vortex-antivortex interaction appears to be repulsive. We numerically study the impact of these rather unusual vortex properties on the dynamics of multivortex systems. We show that at strong nonequilibrium the repulsion between vortices and antivortices leads to a dramatic slowdown of their annihilation. Moreover, in finite-size samples, relaxation of multivortex systems can lead to the formation of metastable vortex-antivortex clusters, whose shape and size depend, in particular, on the sample geometry, boundary conditions and deviations from equilibrium. We further demonstrate that at strong nonequilibrium the interaction of self-accelerated vortices with inhomogeneous condensate flows can lead to generation of new vortex-antivortex pairs.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of physics : A : mathematical and theoretical / Institute of Physics [London] - London
Publication
London : 2019
ISSN
1751-8113 [print]
1751-8121 [online]
DOI
10.1088/1751-8121/AB3ABC
Volume/pages
52 :39 (2019) , 19 p.
Article Reference
395303
ISI
000484249300003
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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