Membranes,higher Hopf maps,and phase interactions

By coupling an antisymmetric three-indexed gauge potential to a thick or solitonic membrane appearing in an SO(5) nonlinear σ model, we find that the physics describes the second Hopf map S⁷→S⁴. The resulting phase interaction between membranes provides an integral representation of the topological invariant. Using quarternionic fields, we can write the Hopf term in a local form. Remarkably, the three-indexed abelian gauge potential may be identified with the Chern-Simons form of an SU(2) gauge potential constructed out of the quanternion fields.     

Topological Solitons in the <Emphasis Type="Italic">CP</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis></Superscript> Model

We investigate the solitons in the CP ^N model in terms of the decomposition of gauge potential. Based on the φ-mapping topological current theory, the charge and position of solitons is determined by the properties of the typical component. Furthermore, the motion and the bifurcation of multi-soliton is discussed. And the knotted solitons in high dimension is explored also.     

Hopf Solitons and Area-Preserving Diffeomorphisms of the Sphere

We consider a (3+1)-dimensional local field theory defined on the sphere S ². The model possesses exact soliton solutions with nontrivial Hopf topological charges and an infinite number of local conserved currents. We show that the Poisson bracket algebra of the corresponding charges is isomorphic to that of the area-preserving diffeomorphisms of the sphere S ². We also show that the conserved currents under consideration are the Noether currents associated to the invariance of the Lagrangian under that infinite group of diffeomorphisms. We indicate possible generalizations of the model.     

Quantum mechanically induced Hopf term in the O(3) nonlinear sigma model

The Hopf term in the (2+ 1)-dimensional O(3) nonlinear sigma model, which is known to be responsible for fractional spin and statistics, is re-examined from the viewpoint of quantization ambiguity. It is confirmed that the Hopf term can be understood as a term induced quantum mechanically, in precisely the same manner as the θ-term in QCD. We present a detailed analysis of the topological aspect of the model based on the adjoint orbit parametrization of the spin vectors, which is not only very useful in handling topological (soliton and/or Hopf) numbers, but also plays a crucial role in defining the Hopf term for configurations of nonvanishing soliton numbers. The Hopf term is seen to arise explicitly as a quantum effect which emerges when quantizing an S¹ degree of freedom hidden in the configuration space.     

Supersymmetric skyrmions in four dimensions

Possible topological solitons (skyrmions) of four-dimensional supersymmetric nonlinear σ-models are investigated. The requirements of supersymmetry limit our study to the CP¹ model. A stable soliton seems possible, but in the absence of a demonstrated lower-bound for the mass, the stability of the soliton is unproved. The semi-classical spectrum of the CP¹ skyrmion, as well as its supersymmetric extension, is studied.     

On fractional quantum Hall solitons in ABJM-like theory

Using D-brane physics, we study fractional quantum Hall solitons (FQHS) in ABJM-like theory in terms of type IIA dual geometries. In particular, we discuss a class of Chern-Simons (CS) quivers describing FQHS systems at low energy. These CS quivers come from R-R gauge fields interacting with D6-branes wrapped on 4-cycles, which reside within a blown up CP³ projective space. Based on the CS quiver method and mimicking the construction of del Pezzo surfaces in terms of CP², we first give a model which corresponds to a single layer model of FQHS system, then we propose a multi-layer system generalizing the doubled CS field theory, which is used in the study of topological defect in graphene.     

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.     

磁霍普夫子及其三维自旋动力学研究

磁霍普夫子是一类新兴的三维磁拓扑孤子,具有精妙的三维自旋拓扑结构,可以展现丰富新奇的物理特性。随着最近磁霍普夫子研究的兴起,三维拓扑孤子相关的研究也进入了一个新的阶段。文章将简要介绍如何在固体磁性系统中实现稳定的磁霍普夫子,同时针对一个最简单的霍普夫子自旋结构,讨论其有趣的三维自旋动力学特性,为今后进一步研究霍普夫子和推进三维拓扑自旋电子学的发展抛砖引玉。     

Possible heavy solitons in the strongly coupled Higgs sector

In a presumed dynamically broken, minimally coupled SU(2) model, a natural Higgs mass of order 1 TeV marks the onset of a strongly interacting Higgs sector probably rich in resonance structure and inaccessible to perturbation theory. In the spirit of the chiral dynamics approach to low-energy hadron physics, the heavy Higgs sector is here assumed to be well described up to one-loop effects by an SO(4) non-linear σ-model of the Skyrme type. Taken as an effective zeroth-order lagrangian, the latter is shown to admit two varieties of finite-energy, three-dimensional localized solitons which may exist in nature. They are given by the S³ → S³ Chern-Pontryagin maps and the S³ → S² twisted toroid Hopf maps, respectively. Upper and lower bounds on the masses of the hedgehog and twisted ring with kink-number one are found to lie in the few TeV range. By a topological theorem of Finkelstein et al., both types of solitons provide classical analogues of superheavy fermion states. The connection between these solitons with other extended objects predicted by Nambu and Huang, and their possible experimental signatures are sketched. Finally, the extension of our results to the more realistic SU(2) × U(1) Weinberg-Salam model is discussed.     

Model for Topological Fermions

 We introduce a model designed to describe charged particles as stable topological solitons of a field with values on the internal space S ³. These solitons behave like particles with relativistic properties like Lorentz contraction and velocity dependence of mass. This mass is defined by the energy of the soliton. In this sense this model is a generalization of the Sine-Gordon model¹(We do not chase the aim to give a four-dimensional generalization of Coleman’s isomorphism between the Sine-Gordon model and the Thirring model which was shown in 2-dimensional space-time) from 1 + 1-dimensions to 3 + 1-dimensions, from S ¹ to S ³. For large distances from the centre of solitons this model tends to a dual U(1)-theory with freely propagating electromagnetic waves. Already at the classical level it describes important effects, which usually have to be explained by quantum field theory, like particle-antiparticle annihilation and the running of the coupling. Received November 30, 1999; revised June 20, 2000; accepted for publication October 2, 2000     

Knotted Wave Dislocation with the Hopf Invariant

We study the wave dislocations with an induced gauge potential. The topological current characterized the wave dislocations is constructed with the dual of Abelian gauge field. And the topological charges and locations of the wave dislocations are determined by the φmapping topological current theory. Furthermore, it is shown that the knotted wave dislocations can be described with a Hopf invariant in the wave field. At last we discussed the evolution of the knotted wave dislocations. PACS 02.10.Kn, 02.40.-k, 11.15.-q     

Bogomol'nyi solitons and Hermitian symmetric spaces

We apply the coadjoint orbit method to construct relativistic nonlinear sigma models (NLSM) on the target space of coadjoint orbits coupled with the Chern-Simons (CS) gauge field and we study self-dual solitons. When the target space is given by a Hermitian symmetric space (HSS), we find that the system admits self-dual solitons whose energy is Bogomol'nyi bounded from below by a topological charge. The Bogomol'nyi potential on the Hermitian symmetric space is obtained in the case when the maximal torus subgroup is gauged, and the self-dual equation in the CP(N − 1) case is explored. We also discuss the self-dual solitons in the case of noncompact SU(1, 1) and present a detailed analysis for the rotationally symmetric solutions.     

Hopf -deformation of any Lie group

We use the Neroslavsky-Vlassov (1981) method to find a star product _h on a class of exact Poisson-Lie groups such that (C^∞(G)[[h]], _h, Δ) is a Hopf algebra. We show that we can find such a nontrivial star product on every Lie group.     

Study on a General Hopf Hierarchy

By using a general symmetry theory related to invariant functions,strong symmetry operators and hereditary operators,we find a general integrable hopf heirarchy with infinitely many general symmetries and Lax pairs.For the first order Hopf equation,there exist infinitely many symmetries which can be expressed by means of an arbitrary function in arbitrary dimensions.The general solution of the first order Hopf equation is obtained via hodograph transformation.For the second order Hopf equation,the Hopf-diffusion equation,there are five sets of infinitely many symmetries.Especially,there exist a set of primary branch symmetry with which contains an arbitrary solution of the usual linear diffusion equation.Some special implicit exact group invariant solutions of the Hopf-diffusion equation are also given.     

Magnetic charge can locally stabilize Kaluza-Klein bubbles

We construct a new 2-parameter family of static topological solitons in 5D minimal supergravity which are endowed with magnetic charge and mass. The solitons are asymptotically R⁴×S¹, where the radius of the S¹ has a lower bound Rs?Rmin. Setting up initial data on a Cauchy slice at a moment of time symmetry, we demonstrate that if Rs>Rmin these solitons correspond to a perturbatively stable “small” static bubble as well as an unstable “large” static bubble, whereas if Rs<Rmin there are no static bubbles. The energetics and thermodynamics of the magnetic black string are then discussed and it is shown that the locally stable bubble is the end point of a phase transition for an appropriate range of black string parameters.     

Braided Hopf Algebras Obtained from Coquasitriangular Hopf Algebras

In this paper, we study the generalized quantum double construction for paired Hopf algebras with particular attention to the case when the generalized quantum double is a Hopf algebra with projection. Applying our theory to a coquasitriangular Hopf algebra (H, σ), we see that H has an associated structure of braided Hopf algebra in the category of Yetter-Drinfeld modules over , where H _σ is a subHopf algebra of H ⁰, the finite dual of H. Specializing to the quantum group H = SL _q (N), we find that H _σ is , so that the duality between these quantum groups is just the evaluation map. Furthermore, we obtain explicit formulas for the braided Hopf algebra structure of SL _q (N) in the category of left Yetter-Drinfeld modules over . The second author held a postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Allison University from 2005 to 2007 and would like to thank Mount Allison for their warm hospitality. Support for the first author’s research and partial support for the postdoctoral position of the second author came from an NSERC Discovery Grant. The second author now holds research support from Grant 434/1.10.2007 of CNCSIS.     

First (fuzzy) Hopf map from irreps of SU(2)

Using the spherical basis of the spin-ν operator, together with an appropriate normalized complex (2ν +1)-spinor on S ³ we obtain spin-ν representation of the U(1) Hopf fibration S ³ → S ² as well as its associated fuzzy version. Also, to realize the first Hopf map via the spherical basis of the spin-1 operator with even winding numbers, we present an appropriate normalized complex three-spinor. We put the winding numbers in one-to-one correspondence with the monopole charges corresponding to different associated complex vector bundles.     

The (2+1)-dimensional supersymmetric CPN−1 model and the central charge

The supersymmetry algebra is examined for the (2+1)-dimensional supersymmetric CP^N?1 model, on the basis of the observation of Witten and Olive in (1+1) and (3+1) dimensions. We then demonstrate that also in this (2+1)-dimensional model the usual supersymmetry algebra is modified by the appearance of the topological numbers of the solitons, which are nothing but the instantons in (1+1) dimensions, as central charges. To obtain the model, we begin by constructing the supersymmetric model in (3+1) dimensions. Then it is reduced to (2+1) dimensions by means of the dimensional reduction technique. We observe that the (2+1)-dimensional supersymmetric CP^N?1 model thus obtained admits an O(2) extended supersymmetry.     

Stationary precession topological solitons with nonzero Hopf invariant in a uniaxial ferromagnet

Three-dimensional stationary precession solitons with nonzero Hopf indices are found numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz equation. The structure and existence domain of the solitons are found.     

Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates with Time-Dependent Atomic Scattering Length in a Harmonic Trap

We obtain the integrable relation for the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations which describes the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensates with time-dependent scattering length in a harmonic potential. The exact one- and two-soliton solutions are constructed analytically by using the Hirota method. Then we further discuss the dynamics of the one soliton and the interactions between two solitons in currently experimental conditions.