TY - JOUR
T1 - Fractional Skyrmions and their molecules
AU - Gudnason, Sven Bjarke
AU - Nitta, Muneto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/4/27
Y1 - 2015/4/27
N2 - We study a Skyrme-type model with a quadratic potential for a field with S2 vacua. We consider two flavors of the model, the first is the Skyrme model and the second has a sixth-order derivative term instead of the Skyrme term; both with the added quadratic potential. The model contains molecules of half Skyrmions, each of them is a global (anti)monopole with baryon number 1/2. We numerically construct solutions with baryon numbers one through six, and find stable solutions which look like beads on rings. We also construct a molecule with fractional Skyrmions having the baryon numbers 1/3+2/3, by adding a linear potential term.
AB - We study a Skyrme-type model with a quadratic potential for a field with S2 vacua. We consider two flavors of the model, the first is the Skyrme model and the second has a sixth-order derivative term instead of the Skyrme term; both with the added quadratic potential. The model contains molecules of half Skyrmions, each of them is a global (anti)monopole with baryon number 1/2. We numerically construct solutions with baryon numbers one through six, and find stable solutions which look like beads on rings. We also construct a molecule with fractional Skyrmions having the baryon numbers 1/3+2/3, by adding a linear potential term.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.085040
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.085040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84929206708
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 91
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 8
M1 - 085040
ER -