Aspects of topology of condensates and knotted solitons in condensed matter systems
Abstract
The knotted solitons introduced by Faddeev and Niemi is presently a subject of great interest in particle and mathematical physics. In this paper we give a condensed matter interpretation of the recent results of Faddeev and Niemi.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2000
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0009438
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0009438
- Bibcode:
- 2000cond.mat..9438B
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- v2: Added a reference to the paper E. Babaev, L.D. Faddeev and A.J. Niemi cond-mat/0106152 where an exact equivalence was shown between the two-condensate Ginzburg-Landau model and a version of Faddeev model. Miscelaneous links related to knotted solitons are available at the author homepage at http://www.teorfys.uu.se/PEOPLE/egor/ . Animations of knotted solitons by Hietarinta and Salo are available at http://users.utu.fi/h/hietarin/knots/c45_p2.mpg