Incarnations of Skyrmions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-10-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Skyrmions can be transformed into lumps or baby-Skyrmions by being trapped inside a domain wall. Here we find that they can also be transformed into sine-Gordon kinks when confined by vortices, resulting in confined Skyrmions. We show this both by an effective field theory approach and by direct numerical calculations. The existence of these trapped and confined Skyrmions does not rely on higher-derivative terms when the host solitons are flat or straight. We also construct a Skyrmion as a twisted vortex ring in a model with a sixth-order derivative term.
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@article{arxiv.1407.7210,
title = {Incarnations of Skyrmions},
author = {Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Muneto Nitta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7210},
year = {2014}
}
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RevTeX: 27 pages, 8 figures; V2: reference added