Ribbons around Mexican hats.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90199-6MaRDI QIDQ1967541zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Bachas, T. N. Tomaras

Publication date 6 March 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9403034

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

Abstract: We analyze quasi-topological solitons winding around a mexican-hat potential in two space-time dimensions. They are prototypes for a large number of physical excitations, including Skyrmions of the Higgs sector of the standard electroweak model, magnetic bubbles in thin ferromagnetic films, and strings in certain non-trivial backgrounds. We present explicit solutions, derive the conditions for classical stability, and show that contrary to the naive expectation these can be satisfied in the weak-coupling limit. In this limit we can calculate the soliton properties reliably, and estimate their lifetime semiclassically. We explain why gauge interactions destabilize these solitons, unless the scalar sector is extended.

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