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Domain walls and their experimental signatures in s+is superconductors
Arguments were recently advanced that hole-doped BaKFeAs
exhibits state at certain doping. Spontaneous breaking of time reversal
symmetry in state, dictates that it possess domain wall excitations.
Here, we discuss what are the experimentally detectable signatures of domain
walls in state. We find that in this state the domain walls can have
dipole-like magnetic signature (in contrast to the uniform magnetic signature
of domain walls superconductors). We propose experiments where
quench-induced domain walls can be stabilized by geometric barriers and be
observed via their magnetic signature or their influence on the magnetization
process, thereby providing an experimental tool to confirm state.Comment: Replaced with a version in print in Physical Review Letters; Minor
changes; 8 pages, 9 figure
Skyrmions induced by dissipationless drag in U(1)xU(1) superconductors
Rather generically, multicomponent superconductors and superfluids have
intercomponent current-current interaction. We show that in superconductors
with substantially strong intercomponent drag interaction, the topological
defects which form in external field are characterized by a skyrmionic
topological charge. We then demonstrate that they can be distinguished from
ordinary vortex matter by a very characteristic magnetization process due to
the dipolar nature of inter-skyrmion forces. The results provide an
experimental signature to confirm or rule out the formation -wave state with
reduced spin stiffness in -wave superconductors.Comment: Replaced with a version in print in Physical Review B; Improved and
extended as compared to the first version; 13 pages; 12 figure
Stable topological modes in two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau models with trapping potentials
Complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) models of laser media (with the cubic-quintic
nonlinearity) do not contain an effective diffusion term, which makes all
vortex solitons unstable in these models. Recently, it has been demonstrated
that the addition of a two-dimensional periodic potential, which may be induced
by a transverse grating in the laser cavity, to the CGL equation stabilizes
compound (four-peak) vortices, but the most fundamental "crater-shaped"
vortices (CSVs), alias vortex rings, which are, essentially, squeezed into a
single cell of the potential, have not been found before in a stable form. In
this work we report families of stable compact CSVs with vorticity S=1 in the
CGL model with the external potential of two different types: an axisymmetric
parabolic trap, and the periodic potential. In both cases, we identify
stability region for the CSVs and for the fundamental solitons (S=0). Those
CSVs which are unstable in the axisymmetric potential break up into robust
dipoles. All the vortices with S=2 are unstable, splitting into tripoles.
Stability regions for the dipoles and tripoles are identified too. The periodic
potential cannot stabilize CSVs with S>=2 either; instead, families of stable
compact square-shaped quadrupoles are found
Effective Field Theory of the Zero-Temperature Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet: A Monte Carlo Study
Using a Monte Carlo coarse-graining technique introduced by Binder et al., we
have explicitly constructed the continuum field theory for the zero-temperature
triangular Ising antiferromagnet. We verify the conjecture that this is a
gaussian theory of the height variable in the interface representation of the
spin model. We also measure the height-height correlation function and deduce
the stiffness constant. In addition, we investigate the nature of defect-defect
interactions at finite temperatures, and find that the two-dimensional Coulomb
gas scenario applies at low temperatures.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figure
Object orientation and visualization of physics in two dimensions
We present a generalized framework for cellular/lattice based visualizations
in two dimensions based on state of the art computing abstractions. Our
implementation takes the form of a library of reusable functions written in C++
which hides complex graphical programming issues from the user and mimics the
algebraic structure of physics at the Hamiltonian level. Our toolkit is not
just a graphics library but an object analysis of physical systems which
disentangles separate concepts in a faithful analytical way. It could be
rewritten in other languages such as Java and extended to three dimensional
systems straightforwardly. We illustrate the usefulness of our analysis with
implementations of spin-films (the two-dimensional XY model with and without an
external magnetic field) and a model for diffusion through a triangular
lattice.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figure
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