The decay of Hopf solitons in the Skyrme model

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA86C2MaRDI QIDQ4589382zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 10 November 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01571

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinearskyrmionHopfion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Soliton solutions (35C08) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: It is understood that the Skyrme model has a topologically interesting baryonic excitation which can model nuclei. So far no stable knotted solutions, of the Skyrme model, have been found. Here we investigate the dynamics of Hopf solitons decaying to the vacuum solution in the Skyrme model. In doing this we develop a matrix-free numerical method to identify the minimum eigenvalue of the Hessian of the corresponding energy functional. We also show that as the Hopf solitons decay, they emit a cloud of isospinning radiation.

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