Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-11-27
Nonlinearity Vol. 12, No. 6, November 1999, 1489-1503
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
new version, LaTeX, 16 pages, more pictures on http://dirac.phy.umist.ac.uk/~weidig/
Scientific paper
10.1088/0951-7715/12/6/303
We study the structure of minimal-energy solutions of the baby Skyrme models for any topological charge n; the baby multi-skyrmions. Unlike in the (3+1)D nuclear Skyrme model, a potential term must be present in the (2+1)D Skyrme model to ensure stability. The form of this potential term has a crucial effect on the existence and structure of baby multi-skyrmions. The simplest holomorphic model has no known stable minimal-energy solution for n greater than one. The other baby Skyrme model studied in the literature possesses non-radially symmetric minimal-energy configurations that look like `skyrmion lattices' formed by skyrmions with n=2. We discuss a baby Skyrme model with a potential that has two vacua. Surprisingly, the minimal-energy solution for every n is radially-symmetric and the energy grows linearly for large n. Further, these multi-skyrmions are tighter bound, have less energy and the same large r behaviour than in the model with one vacuum. We rely on numerical studies and approximations to test and verify this observation.
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