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The world of two-dimensional crystals is of great significance for the design and study of structural and functional materials with novel properties. The world of two-dimensional crystals is of great significance for the design and study of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Simiso Mkhonta , Ken Elder , Zhi-Feng Huang

Two-dimensional colloidal suspensions exposed to periodic external fields exhibit a variety of molecular crystalline phases. There two or more colloids assemble at lattice sites of potential minima to build new structural entities, referred…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreja Sarlah , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

The O(3) sigma model and abelian Higgs model in two space dimensions admit topological (Bogomol'nyi) lower bounds on their energy. This paper proposes lattice versions of these systems which maintain the Bogomol'nyi bounds. One consequence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. S. Ward

Using a particle-based model we examine the depinning motion of solitons in skyrmion chains in quasi-one dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) systems containing embedded 1D interfaces. The solitons take the form of a particle or hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 N. P. Vizarim , J. C. Bellizotti Souza , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , M. V. Milosevic , P. A. Venegas

We introduce topologically stable three-dimensional skyrmions in the cyclic and biaxial nematic phases of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate. These skyrmions exhibit exceptionally high mapping degrees resulting from the versatile symmetries…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-15 K. Tiurev , T. Ollikainen , P. Kuopanportti , M. Nakahara , D. S. Hall , M. Möttönen

Three dimensional (3D) relativistic electromagnetic sub-cycle solitons were observed in 3D Particle-in-Cell simulations of an intense short laser pulse propagation in an underdense plasma. Their structure resembles that of an oscillating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Timur Esirkepov , Katsunobu Nishihara , Sergei V. Bulanov , Francesco Pegoraro

We perform full two-dimensional (2D) numerical relaxations of isospinning soliton solutions in the baby Skyrme model in which the global $O(3)$ symmetry is broken by the 2D analogue of the pion mass term in the Skyrme model. In our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-04 Richard A. Battye , Mareike Haberichter

Magnetic skyrmions are stable topological solitons with complex non-coplanar spin structures. Their nanoscopic size and the low electric currents required to initiate and control their motion has opened a new field of research, skyrmionics,…

Magnetic skyrmions are intriguing topological spin textures that have attracted great attention due to their potential for future spintronic devices. Skyrmions have so far been explored in different magnetic materials, such as ferromagnets,…

Skyrmions are disk-like objects that typically form triangular crystals in two dimensional systems. This situation is analogous to the so-called "pancake vortices" of quasi-two dimensional superconductors. The way in which skyrmion disks or…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-15 Shi-Zeng Lin , Cristian D. Batista

We study the baby Skyrme model in a pure AdS background without a mass term. The tail decays and scalings of massless radial solutions are demonstrated to take a similar form to those of the massive flat space model, with the AdS curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-22 Matthew Elliot-Ripley , Thomas Winyard

A gauged (2+1)-dimensional version of the Skyrme model is investigated. The gauge group is $U(1)$ and the dynamics of the associated gauge potential is governed by a Maxwell term. In this model there are topologically stable soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-09 J. Gladikowski , B. M. A. G. Piette , B. J. Schroers

In this work we analize how the inclusion of extra mesonic degrees of freedom affect the finite density solitons crystals of the Skyrme model. In particular, the first analytic examples of hadronic crystals at finite baryon density in both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Gonzalo Barriga , Fabrizio Canfora , Marcela Lagos , Matías Torres , Aldo Vera

Topologically nontrivial field configurations called "baby skyrmions" behave like particles and give origins to the field of skyrmionics that promises racetrack memory and other technological applications. Unraveling the non-equilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-30 Paul J. Ackerman , Timothy Boyle , Ivan I. Smalyukh

We investigate topological phases in two-dimensional Bi/Sb honeycomb crystals considering planar, buckled, freestanding and deposited on a substrate structures. We use the multi-orbital tight-binding model and compare results with density…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-26 N. Nouri , M. Bieniek , M. Brzezinska , M. Modarresi , S. Zia Borujeni , Gh. Rashedi , A. Wojs , P. Potasz

The Skyrme model is considered quantum mechanically ab initio in various irreducible representations of the SU(2) group. The canonical quantization procedure yields negative mass correction ensuring existence of stabile soliton solution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Acus , E. Norvaišas

We introduce and systematically investigate a new class of topological magnetic textures, skyrmionium meta-matter, composed of skyrmioniums (Skm, $Q=0$) and skyrmions (Sk, $Q=-1$) arranged in periodic lattices mimicking the richness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Andrey O. Leonov , Kaito Nakamura

Skyrmions, originally from condensed matter physics, have been widely explored in various physical systems, including soft matter. A crucial challenge in manipulating topological solitary waves like skyrmions is controlling their flow on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiahao Chen , Wentao Tang , Xingzhou Tang , Yang Ding , Jie Ni , Yuxi Chen , Bingxiang Li , Rui Zhang , Juan de Pablo , Yanqing Lu

This article gives the construction and complete classification of all three-dimensional spherical manifolds, and orders them by decreasing volume, in the context of multiconnected universe models with positive spatial curvature. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Evelise Gausmann , Roland Lehoucq , Jean-Pierre Luminet , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Jeffrey Weeks

We investigate the existence of self-dual configurations in the restricted gauged baby Skyrme model enlarged with a $Z_2$--symmetry, which introduces a real scalar field. For such a purpose, we implement the Bogomol'nyi procedure that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 C. A. I. Florián , Rodolfo Casana , André C. Santos