Statistical mechanics of vortices from D-branes and T-duality Original Research Article

We propose a novel and simple method to compute the partition function of statistical mechanics of local and semi-local BPS vortices in the Abelian–Higgs model and its non-Abelian extension on a torus. We use a D-brane realization of the vortices and T-duality relation to domain walls. We use a special limit where domain walls reduce to gas of hard (soft) on