Dynamical instability of symmetric vortices

  • Luís Almeida

    Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
  • Yan Guo

    Brown University, Providence, USA

Abstract

Using the Maxwell-Higgs model we prove that linearly unstable symmetric vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau theory are dynamically unstable in the norm (which is the natural norm for the problem).

Cite this article

Luís Almeida, Yan Guo, Dynamical instability of symmetric vortices. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 17 (2001), no. 2, pp. 409–419

DOI 10.4171/RMI/299