Isospinning hopfions

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/22/225402MaRDI QIDQ2839441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Derek Harland, Juha Jäykkä, Ya. Shnir, Martin Speight

Publication date 11 July 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2923

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantum chaos (81Q50) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

Abstract: The problem of constructing internally rotating solitons of fixed angular frequency $omega$ in the Faddeev-Skyrme model is reformulated as a variational problem for an energy-like functional, called pseudoenergy, which depends parametrically on $omega$. This problem is solved numerically using a gradient descent method, without imposing any spatial symmetries on the solitons, and the dependence of the solitons' energy on $omega$, and on their conserved total isospin $J$, studied. It is found that, generically, the shape of a soliton is independent of $omega$, and that its size grows monotonically with $omega$. A simple elastic rod model of time-dependent hopfions is developed which, despite having only one free parameter, accounts well for most of the numerical results.

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