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Dynamics of Baby Skyrmions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Baby Skyrmions are topological solitons in a (2+1)-dimensional field theory which resembles the Skyrme model in important respects. We apply some of the techniques and approximations commonly used in discussions of the Skyrme model to the dynamics of baby Skyrmions and directly test them against numerical simulations. Specifically we study the effect of spin on the shape of a single baby Skyrmion, the dependence of the forces between two baby Skyrmions on the baby Skyrmions' relative orientation and the forces between two baby Skyrmions when one of them is spinning.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9410256,
  title  = {Dynamics of Baby Skyrmions},
  author = {B. M. A. G. Piette and B. J. Schroers and W. J. Zakrzewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9410256},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28 pages (Latex), 9 figures available on request from BJS, DTP 94-25