Approximate analytical solutions of the baby Skyrme model

We show that many properties of the baby skyrmions, which have been determined numerically, can be understood in terms of an analytic approximation. In particular, we show that the approximation captures properties of the multiskyrmion solutions (derived numerically) such as their stability towards decay into various channels, and that it is more accurate for the “new baby Skyrme model” describing anisotropic physical systems in terms of multiskyrmion fields with axial symmetry. Some universal characteristics of configurations of this kind are demonstrated that are independent of their topological number.     

The Skyrme model with a U*(1) gauged Wess‐Zumino term in a noncommutative spacetime

The Skyrme model is generalized for a noncommutative spacetime with the Weyl‐operators of SU(2) matrices and the corresponding star‐product. The unitary condition and the topological current can be extended to star‐exponential matrices. The Wess‐Zumino term which breaks unphysical symmetries of the Skyrme action is gauged with the U_*(1) group to allow for electromagnetic processes in a noncommutative spacetime. Apart from corrections to the anomalous decay γ→π⁰π⁺π^– in commuting spacetime, the additional anomalous process γ→π⁰π⁰π⁰ is found in the U_*(1) gauged Wess‐Zumino action for a noncommutative spacetime.     

Solitons on Tori and Soliton Crystals

Necessary conditions for a soliton on a torus \({M = \mathbb{R}^m/\Lambda}\) to be a soliton crystal, that is, a spatially periodic array of topological solitons in stable equilibrium, are derived. The stress tensor of the soliton must be L ² orthogonal to \({\mathbb{E}}\) , the space of parallel symmetric bilinear forms on TM, and, further, a certain symmetric bilinear form on \({\mathbb{E}}\) , called the hessian, must be positive. It is shown that, for baby Skyrme models, the first condition actually implies the second. It is also shown that, for any choice of period lattice Λ, there is a baby Skyrme model which supports a soliton crystal of periodicity Λ. For the three-dimensional Skyrme model, it is shown that any soliton solution on a cubic lattice which satisfies a virial constraint and is equivariant with respect to (a subgroup of) the lattice symmetries automatically satisfies both tests. This verifies, in particular, that the celebrated Skyrme crystal of Castillejo et  al., and Kugler and Shtrikman, passes both tests.     

Multisolitons in a two-dimensional Skyrme model

The Skyrme model can be generalised to a situation where static fields are maps from one Riemannian manifold to another. Here we study a Skyrme model where physical space is two-dimensional euclidean space and the target space is the two-sphere with its standard metric. The model has topological soliton solutions which are exponentially localised. We describe a superposition procedure for solitons in our model and derive an expression for the interaction potential of two solitons which only involves the solitons' asymptotic fields. If the solitons have topological degree 1 or 2 there are simple formulae for their interaction potentials which we use to prove the existence of solitons of higher degree. We explicitly compute the fields and energy distributions for solitons of degrees between one and six and discuss their geometrical shapes and binding energies.     

The Interaction Energy of Well-Separated Skyrme Solitons

We prove that the asymptotic field of a Skyrme soliton of any degree has a non-trivial multipole expansion. It follows that every Skyrme soliton has a well-defined leading multipole moment. We derive an expression for the linear interaction energy of well-separated Skyrme solitons in terms of their leading multipole moments. This expression can always be made negative by suitable rotations of one of the Skyrme solitons in space and iso-space. We show that the linear interaction energy dominates for large separation if the orders of the Skyrme solitons multipole moments differ by at most two. In that case there are therefore always attractive forces between the Skyrme solitons.     

Isospin effects of the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

We improve the isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamical model by including isospin effects in the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction to obtain an isospin dependent Skyrme potential and an isospin dependent momentum interaction. We investigate the isospin effects of Skyrme potential and momentum dependent interaction on the isospin fractionation ratio and the dynamical mechanism in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. It is found that the isospin dependent Skyrme potential and the isospin dependent momentum interaction produce some important isospin effects in the isospin fractionation ratio.     

Isospin effects of the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

We improve the isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamical model by including isospin effects in the Skyrme potential and the momentum dependent interaction to obtain an isospin dependent Skyrme potential and an isospin dependent momentum interaction. We investigate the isospin effects of Skyrme potential and momentum dependent interaction on the isospin fractionation ratio and the dynamical mechanism in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. It is found that the isospin dependent Skyrme potential and the isospin dependent momentum interaction produce some important isospin effects in the isospin fractionation ratio.     

SU(3) symmetry breaking for masses, magnetic moments and sizes of baryons

We use the SU(3) Skyrme model to investigate the effects of symmetry breaking imposed by different pseudoscalar meson masses on the structure of baryons. Specifically, we calculate their mass splittings, magnetic moments, charge radii, semileptonic decays as well as different strangeness contents of the proton. Since the Skyrme soliton is allowed to deform under the pressure of the symmetry breaking we find significant variations in baryon sizes with respect to strangeness.     

Quark structure and nuclear effective forces

We formulate the quark meson coupling model as a many-body effective Hamiltonian. This leads naturally to the appearance of many-body forces. We investigate the zero range limit of the model and compare its Hartree-Fock Hamiltonian to that corresponding to the Skyrme effective force. By fixing the three parameters of the model to reproduce the binding and symmetry energy of nuclear matter, we find that it allows a very satisfactory interpretation of the Skyrme force.     

2+1 Dimensional Noncommutative Dirac Oscillator and (Anti)-Jaynes-Cummings Models

We study Dirac oscillator in 2+1 dimensional noncommutative space. The model is solved exactly and the relationship with Jaynes-Cummings (JC) or anti-Jaynes-Cummings (AJC) models are investigated. We find that for a positive noncommutative parameter, there is an exact map from the 2+1 dimensional noncommutative Dirac oscillator to AJC model. However, for a negative noncommutative parameter, the noncommutative planar Dirac oscillator contains both AJC and JC terms simultaneously. Our investigation may afford a new way to study relativistic quantum mechanics models in noncommutative space by means of quantum optics method, and vice verse.     

Are vortex numbers preserved?

We study noncommutative vortex solutions that minimize the action functional of the Abelian Higgs model in 2-dimensional noncommutative Euclidean space. We first consider vortex solutions which are deformed from solutions defined on commutative Euclidean space to the noncommutative one. We construct solutions whose vortex numbers are unchanged under the noncommutative deformation. Another class of noncommutative vortex solutions via a Fock space representation is also studied.     

Gravitating Hopfions

We construct solutions of the 3 + 1 dimensional Faddeev–Skyrme model coupled to Einstein gravity. The solutions are static and asymptotically flat. They are characterized by a topological Hopf number. We investigate the dependence of the ADM masses of gravitating Hopfions on the gravitational coupling. When gravity is coupled to flat space solutions, a branch of gravitating Hopfion solutions arises and merges at a maximal value of the coupling constant with a second branch of solutions. This upper branch has no flat space limit. Instead, in the limit of a vanishing coupling constant, it connects to either the Bartnik–McKinnon or a generalized Bartnik–McKinnon solution. We further find that in the strong-coupling limit, there is no difference between the gravitating solitons of the Skyrme model and the Faddeev–Skyrme model.     

On noncommutative minisuperspace and the Friedmann equations

In this Letter we present a noncommutative version of scalar field cosmology. We find the noncommutative Friedmann equations as well as the noncommutative Klein–Gordon equation, interestingly the noncommutative contributions are only present up to second order in the noncommutative parameter. Finally we conclude that if we want a noncommutative minisuperspace with a constant noncommutative parameter as viable phenomenological model, the noncommutative parameter has to be very small.     

Homotopy of rational maps and the quantization of Skyrmions

The Skyrme model is a classical field theory which models the strong interaction between atomic nuclei. It has to be quantized in order to compare it to nuclear physics. When the Skyrme model is semi-classically quantized it is important to take the Finkelstein-Rubinstein constraints into account. The aim of this paper is to show how to calculate these FR constraints directly from the rational map ansatz using basic homotopy theory. We then apply this construction in order to quantize the Skyrme model in the simplest approximation, the zero mode quantization. This is carried out for up to 22 nucleons and the results are compared to experiment.     

The Skyrme-TQRPA calculations of electron capture on hot nuclei in pre-supernova environment

We combine the thermal QRPA approach with the Skyrme energy density functional theory (Skyrme–TQRPA) for modelling the process of electron capture on nuclei in supernova environment. For a sample nucleus, ⁵⁶Fe, the Skyrme–TQRPA approach is applied to analyze thermal effects on the strength function of GT₊ transitions which dominate electron capture at E _e ≤ 30 MeV. Several Skyrme interactions are used in order to verify the sensitivity of the obtained results to the Skyrme force parameters. Finite-temperature cross sections are calculated and the results are comparedwith those of the other model calculations.     

Nonlinear chiral models: Soliton solutions and spatio-temporal chaos

Nonlinear effective Lagrangian models with a chiral symmetry have been used to describe strong interactions at low energy, for a long time. The Skyrme model and the chiral quark-meson model are two such models, which have soliton solutions which can be identified with the baryons. We describe the various kinds of soliton states in these nonlinear models and discuss their physical significance and uses in this review. We also study these models from the view point of classical nonlinar dynamical systems. We consider fluctuations around theB=1 soliton solutions of these models (B, being the baryon number) and solve the spherically symmetric, time-dependent systems. Numerical studies indicate that the phase space around the Skyrme soliton solution exhibits spatio-temporal chaos. It is remarkable that topological solitons signifying stability/order and spatio-temporal chaos coexist in this model. In contrast with this, the soliton of the quark-meson model is stable even for large perturbations.     

Thermodynamics of a Higher Dimensional Noncommutative Inspired Anti-de Sitter-Einstein-Born-Infeld Black Hole

We analyze noncommutative deformations of a higher dimensional anti-de Sitter-Einstein-Born-Infeld black hole. Two models based on noncommutative inspired distributions of mass and charge are discussed and their thermodynamical properties such as the equation of state are explicitly calculated. In the (3 + 1)-dimensional case the Gibbs energy function of each model is used to discuss the presence of phase transitions.     

Fermionic Quantization of Hopf Solitons

In this paper we show how to quantize Hopf solitons using the Finkelstein-Rubinstein approach. Hopf solitons can be quantized as fermions if their Hopf charge is odd. Symmetries of classical minimal energy configurations induce loops in configuration space which give rise to constraints on the wave function. These constraints depend on whether the given loop is contractible. Our method is to exploit the relationship between the configuration spaces of the Faddeev-Hopf and Skyrme models provided by the Hopf fibration. We then use recent results in the Skyrme model to determine whether loops are contractible. We discuss possible quantum ground states up to Hopf charge Q=7.     

Constant-cutoff approach to soliton polarizabilities

The static electromagnetic polarizabilities of nucleons and -particles are calculated in the simplified Skyrme model, where the quartic Skyrme stabilizing term is omitted and where the constant-cutoff stabilization method is used to stabilize the Skyrme soliton. The numerical results are of the same accuracy as those obtained using the complete Skyrme model, but the simplified Skyrme model offers simpler mathematical structure and easier calculations.     

Supersymmetric QCD and Noncommutative Geometry

We derive supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics from a noncommutative manifold, using the spectral action principle of Chamseddine and Connes. After a review of the Einstein?CYang?CMills system in noncommutative geometry, we establish in full detail that it possesses supersymmetry. This noncommutative model is then extended to give a theory of quarks, squarks, gluons and gluinos by constructing a suitable noncommutative spin manifold (i.e. a spectral triple). The particles are found at their natural place in a spectral triple: the quarks and gluinos as fermions in the Hilbert space, the gluons and squarks as the (bosonic) inner fluctuations of a (generalized) Dirac operator by the algebra of matrix-valued functions on a manifold. The spectral action principle applied to this spectral triple gives the Lagrangian of supersymmetric QCD, including supersymmetry breaking (negative) mass terms for the squarks. We find that these results are in good agreement with the physics literature.