Structure of a Single-Quantum Vortex in 3He-A

Riku Rantanen*, Erkki Thuneberg, Vladimir Eltsov

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Abstract

We have performed numerical calculations of the structure of the single-quantum vortex in superfluid 3He-A. The GPU-accelerated large-scale numerical simulation is performed in the Ginzburg-Landau model and resolves length scales of both coherence-length-sized hard core and dipolar-length-sized soft core of the vortex. The calculations support previously suggested qualitative structure of the vortex, recently named as eccentric fractional skyrmion, and provide numerical values for the vortex energy, sizes and locations of the hard and soft cores and highly-asymmetric flow profile of the vortex.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104505
Pages (from-to)88-103
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume220
Issue number1
Early online date2025
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2025
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • Ginzburg-Landau
  • Quantized vortices
  • Superfluid 3He-A

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