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Nonminimal Maxwell-Chern-Simons-O(3)-sigma vortices: asymmetric potential case

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In this work we study a nonlinear gauged O(3)-sigma model with both minimal and nonminimal coupling in the covariant derivative. Using an asymmetric scalar potential, the model is found to exhibit both topological and non-topological soliton solutions in the Bogomol'nyi limit.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609064,
  title  = {Nonminimal Maxwell-Chern-Simons-O(3)-sigma vortices: asymmetric potential case},
  author = {M. S. Cunha and R. R. Landim and C. A. S. Almeida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609064},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures. Some typos corrected, two references changed. To appear in Physical Review D