Eigenstates of the Vorticity Operator: The Creation and Annihilation of Vortex States in Two Dimensions

1995/04/26 by A. D. Speliotopoulos, Speliotopoulos, A. D.
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #cond-mat #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9504100

25 pages, written in RevTeX, submitted to Physical Review B

arxiv created 1995/04/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

A quantum mechanical description of vortices in two dimensional superfluid ⁴He flims is presented. Single vortex creation and annihilation operators are defined and wavefunctions for these states are explicitly constructed. A hamitonian for these states is then proposed.

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