Confinement of Half-quantized Vortices in Coherently Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates: Simulating Quark Confinement in QCD

Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta

We demonstrate that the confinement of half-quantized vortices (HQVs) in coherently coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) simulates certain aspects of the confinement in $SU(2)$…