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Gauge invariance plays an important role in forming topological defects. In this work, from the AdS/CFT correspondence, we realize the clusters of equal-sign vortices during the course of critical dynamics of a strongly coupled superconductor. This is the first time to achieve the equal-sign vortex clusters in strongly coupled systems. The appearance of clusters of equal-sign vortices is a typical character of flux trapping mechanism, distinct from Kibble-Zurek mechanism which merely presents vortex-antivortex pair distributions resulting from global symmetry breaking. Numerical results of spatial correlations and net fluxes of the equal-sign vortex clusters quantitatively support the positive correlations between vortices. The linear dependence between the vortex number and the amplitude of magnetic field at the ‘trapping’ time demonstrates the flux trapping mechanism very well.
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Li, ZH., Xia, CY., Zeng, HB. et al. Holographic topological defects and local gauge symmetry: clusters of strongly coupled equal-sign vortices. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 124 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)124
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