Helical buckling of Skyrme-Faddeev solitons
arXiv:1202.3988 · doi:10.1098/rspa.2012.0132
Abstract
Solitons in the Skyrme-Faddeev model on R^2xS^1 are shown to undergo buckling transitions as the circumference of the S^1 is varied. These results support a recent conjecture that solitons in this field theory are well-described by a much simpler model of elastic rods.
24 pages, 9 figures