Tom Weidig 1999 Nonlinearity 12 1489 doi:10.1088/0951-7715/12/6/303
Tom Weidig
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We analyse the structure of minimal-energy solutions of the baby Skyrme model for any topological charge n; the baby multi-skyrmions. Unlike in the (3+1)D nuclear Skyrme model, a potential term must be present in the (2+1)D baby Skyrme model to ensure stability. The form of this potential term has a crucial effect on the existence and structure of baby multi-skyrmions. The simplest holomorphic baby Skyrme model has no known stable minimal-energy solution for n greater than one. The other baby Skyrme model studied in the literature possesses non-radially-symmetric minimal-energy configurations that look like `skyrmion lattices' formed by skyrmions with n = 2. We discuss a baby Skyrme model with a potential that has two vacua. Surprisingly, the minimal-energy solution for every n is radially symmetric and the energy grows linearly for large n. Further, these multi-skyrmions are tighter bound, have less energy and the same large r behaviour than in the model with one vaccum. We rely on numerical studies and approximations to test and verify this observation.
Issue 6 (November 1999)
Received 3 December 1998, in final form 29 June 1999
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