Symmetry Breaking of Vortex Patterns in a Rotating Harmonic Potential
arXiv:0802.3960 · doi:10.1143/JPSJ.77.054003
Abstract
We numerically study the symmetry breaking instabilities of vortex patterns in a rotating harmonic potential using a type of Ginzburg-Landau equation. The configurations of vortex lattices change markedly by the symmetry-breaking instabilities, and then, some vortices move away from the confinement potential, which leads to the annihilation of vortices. The symmetry-breaking instabilities and the instabilities of vortex nucleation determine the parameter region of stable vortex patterns. We verify that the symmetry-breaking instabilities also occur in a type of complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
10 pages, 9 figures