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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-th2010★ 39 cited
Easy plane baby skyrmions
Juha Jäykkä, Martin Speight
The baby Skyrme model is studied with a novel choice of potential, . This "easy plane" potential vanishes at the equator of the target two-sphere. Hence, in contrast t…