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Static Hopfion solutions of the extended Skyrme-Faddeev model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-11-06 v1

Abstract

We construct non-axially symmetric static soliton solutions, with non-zero topological charges, of an extension of the Skyrme-Faddeev model. The model has an extra quartic-derivative term and we choose its coupling to the Skyrme-term to be negative. We solve the full equations of motion to find numerical solutions with topological charge up to seven and find that the model favours large ring-like solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0926,
  title  = {Static Hopfion solutions of the extended Skyrme-Faddeev model},
  author = {David Foster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0926},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, 16 figures