Spectral wall in collisions of excited Abelian Higgs vortices

Abstract

We find a spectral wall in collisions of two vortices in the Abelian Higgs model at the critical coupling. It occurs if the out-of-phase mode of initially separated vortices is excited.

6 pages, 4 figures and ancillary files (5 videos)

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