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The baby Skyrme models and their multi-skyrmions

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.


PACS

21.60.-n Nuclear structure models and methods

MSC

81V35 Nuclear physics

Subjects

Nuclear physics

Dates

Issue 6 (November 1999)

Received 3 December 1998, in final form 29 June 1999



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