 Nielsen-Olesen vortex (source code)

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= Nielsen-Olesen vortex
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= Abelian Higgs vortex
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= Abelian Higgs vortices
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An Abelian Higgs vortex has quantized magnetic flux and a Higgs field whose phase winds at spatial infinity. Its vortex number is $N=(2\pi)^{-1}\int F$ under the convention $D=d-iA$.

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