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Inspired by magnetic impurity considerations some broad classes of Abelian Higgs and Chern-Simons-Higgs BPS vortex equations are derived and analyzed.
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Han, X., Yang, Y. Magnetic impurity inspired Abelian Higgs vortices. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 46 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)046
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