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Some time ago, Atiyah and Manton observed that computing the holonomy of Yang-Mills instantons yields good approximations to static Skyrmion solutions of the Skyrme model. This paper provides an extension and explanation of this result, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-22 Paul Sutcliffe

A key challenge for the realization of future skyrmion devices comprises the controlled creation, annihilation and detection of these topologically non-trivial magnetic spin textures. In this study, we report an all-optical approach for…

A method for compiling quantum algorithms into specific braiding patterns for non-Abelian quasiparticles described by the so-called Fibonacci anyon model is developed. The method is based on the observation that a universal set of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Hormozi , G. Zikos , N. E. Bonesteel , S. H. Simon

A zero mode quantization of the minimal energy SU(2) Skyrmions for nucleon numbers four to nine and seventeen is described. This involves quantizing the rotational and isorotational modes of the configurations. For nucleon numbers four, six…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Irwin

The possible boundary value problems of the skyrmions are reexamined in the original Skyrme model with two new viewpoints. The first one suggests to replace the infinity boundary point by the finite radius R, which is related to the density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-09 Viet Ai Nguyen , Khanh Duy Nguyen

We describe a way to obtain a two-dimensional quasiperiodic tiling with eight-fold symmetry using cold atoms. A series of such optical tilings, related by scale transformations, is obtained for a series of specific values of the chemical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-29 Nicolas Macé , Anuradha Jagannathan , Michel Duneau

One of the traditional ways of introducing bosons and fermions is through creation-annihilation algebras. Historically, these have been associated with emission and absorption processes at the quantum level and are characteristic of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Nicolás Medina Sánchez , Borivoje Dakić

We develop a quantum theory of magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions in a spin-1/2 Heisenberg magnet with frustrating next-nearest neighbor interactions. Using exact diagonalization we show numerically that a quantum skyrmion exists as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-01 Vivek Lohani , Ciarán Hickey , Jan Masell , Achim Rosch

Quantized Skyrmions with baryon numbers $B=1,2$ and 4 are considered and angularly localized wavefunctions for them are found. By combining a few low angular momentum states, one can construct a quantum state whose spatial density is close…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Olga V. Manko , Nicholas S. Manton

The free energy and the entropy of magnetic skyrmions with respect to the collinear state are calculated for a (Pt$_{0.95}$Ir$_{0.05}$)/Fe bilayer on Pd(111) via atomistic spin model simulations. The simulations are carried out starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-16 Daniel Schick , Markus Weißenhofer , Levente Rózsa , Ulrich Nowak

Skyrmions are important in topological quantum field theory for being soliton solutions of a nonlinear sigma model and in information technology for their attractive applications. Skyrmions are believed to be circular and stripy spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 X. R. Wang , X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu

We present candidates for the global minimum energy solitons of charge one to nine in the Skyrme model, generated using sophisticated numerical algorithms. Assuming the Skyrme model accurately represents the low energy limit of QCD, these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard Battye , Paul Sutcliffe

We consider multiskyrmion configurations in 2D ferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction and the magnetic field, using the stereographic projection method. In the absence of DM interaction, $D$, and the field, $B$, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 V. E. Timofeev , A. O. Sorokin , D. N. Aristov

Recently, there has been an increased interest in the application of machine learning (ML) techniques to a variety of problems in condensed matter physics. In this regard, of particular significance is the characterization of simple and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-22 F. A. Gómez Albarracín , H. D. Rosales

In a wide class of holographic models, like the one proposed by Sakai and Sugimoto, baryons can be approximated by instantons of non-abelian gauge fields that live on the world-volume of flavor D-branes. In the leading order, those are just…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Vadim Kaplunovsky , Dmitry Melnikov , Jacob Sonnenschein

By analogy with heavy ion collisions, which can be modelled by a classical hydrodynamics, it is proposed that the differential cross section for collisions of smaller nuclei can be calculated from the classical, numerical scattering data…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-20 N. S. Manton

Magnetic skyrmions and their anti-particles, the antiskyrmions, are stable magnetic solitons existing down to the nanometer scale. Their stability and size as well as the possibility to propel them by, e.g., electric currents make them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Pia Siegl , Martin Stier , Alexander F. Schäffer , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Thore Posske , Roland Wiesendanger , Michael Thorwart

We present GPU accelerated simulations to calculate the annihilation energy of magnetic skyrmions in an atomistic spin model considering dipole-dipole, exchange, uniaxial-anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Paul Heistracher , Claas Abert , Florian Bruckner , Christoph Vogler , Dieter Suess

We discuss the Atiyah-Drinfeld-Hitchin-Manin (ADHM) construction of U(N) instantons in noncommutative (NC) space and prove the one-to-one correspondence between moduli spaces of the noncommutative instantons and the ADHM data, together with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-22 Masashi Hamanaka , Toshio Nakatsu

Quantum Hall skyrmions are quantized solitons of a ferromagnetic O(3) sigma-model. The reference, classical, solutions depend upon the interaction between the electrons and exhibit completely different asymptotic profiles for the physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. H. Rezayi , S. L. Sondhi