A zero-mode quantization of the Skyrmion
arXiv:hep-th/0509098 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.093
Abstract
In the semi-classical approach to the Skyrme model, nuclei are approximated by quantum mechanical states on a finite-dimensional space of field configurations; in zero-mode quantization this space is generated by rotations and isorotations. Here, simulated annealing is used to find the axially symmetric Skyrme configuration which extremizes the zero-mode quantized energy for the nucleon.
8 pages, typos corrected, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B