Maxwell-$CP(2)$ vortices in the presence of magnetic impurities

Abstract: We consider a Maxwell-$CP(2)$ model extended to include a magnetic impurity. We focus our attention on the time-independent configurations with radial symmetry, from which we minimize the corresponding energy by following the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) prescription. We use the general first-order expressions in order to introduce modified scenarios in which the impurity plays a relevant role. We then solve the effective first-order equations numerically by means of a finite-difference scheme, from which we comment on the main changes on the shape of the final solutions caused by the presence of a localised impurity. We also discuss the limit when the impurity becomes a delta function.