Vortex interaction on curved surfaces

Abstract

The vortex-excitation energy on a sphere can be obtained by using the stereographic projection. By applying this method, we calculate the energy needed to create a vortex on a surface with a constant negative curvature. It is found that the energy is a linear function of the radius of the vortex. In accordance with this result, the interaction energy between a pair of vortices is also found to change linearly with the vortex separation distance. Explicit vortex configurations are obtained numerically with this interaction.

19 pages; 6 figures

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