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cond-mat.supr-con2012★ 106 cited
Chiral CP^2 skyrmions in three-band superconductors
Julien Garaud, Johan Carlstrom, Egor Babaev +1
It is shown that under certain conditions, three-component superconductors (and in particular three-band systems) allow stable topological defects different from vortices. We demon…
hep-th2010★ 16 cited
Hopf solitons and elastic rods
Derek Harland, Martin Speight, Paul Sutcliffe
Hopf solitons in the Skyrme-Faddeev model are string-like topological solitons classified by the integer-valued Hopf charge. In this paper we introduce an approximate description o…
hep-th2005
Fermionic quantization of Hopf solitons
Steffen Krusch, Martin Speight
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…