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SELF-DUAL NON-ABELIAN VORTICES IN A $\PHI^2$ CHERN-SIMONS THEORY

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study a non-Abelian Chern-Simons gauge theory in 2+1 2+ 1 dimensions with the inclusion of an anomalous magnetic interaction. For a particular relation between the Chern-Simons (CS) mass and the anomalous magnetic coupling the equations for the gauge fields reduce from second- to first order differential equations of the pure CS type. We derive the Bogomol'nyi-type or self-dual equations for a \bphi2\bphi^2 scalar potential, when the scalar and topological masses are equal. The corresponding vortex solutions carry magnetic flux that is not quantized due to the non-toplogical nature of the solitons. However, as a consequence of the quantization of the CS term, both the electric charge and angular momentum are quantized.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505115,
  title  = {SELF-DUAL NON-ABELIAN VORTICES IN A $\PHI^2$ CHERN-SIMONS THEORY},
  author = {Armando Antillón and Joaquín Escalona and Gabriel Germán and Manuel Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505115},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, Latex file, no figures