Light Nuclei of Even Mass Number in the Skyrme Model (2009)
Battye, Richard A., Manton, Nicholas S., Sutcliffe, Paul M., Wood, Stephen W.
We consider the semiclassical rigid-body quantization of Skyrmion solutions of mass numbers B = 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. We determine the allowed quantum states for each Skyrmion, and find that they often...
Light Nuclei as Quantized Skyrmions: Energy Spectra and Form Factors (2008)
Manton, Nicholas S., Wood, Stephen W.
We review the SU(2) Skyrme model and describe its topological soliton solutions, which are called Skyrmions. Skyrmions provide a model of nuclei in which the conserved topological charge is...
Scaling Identities for Solitons beyond Derrick's Theorem (2008)
New integral identities satisfied by topological solitons in a range of classical field theories are presented. They are derived by considering independent length rescalings in orthogonal directions,...
One-vortex moduli space and Ricci flow (2008)
The metric on the moduli space of one abelian Higgs vortex on a surface has a natural geometrical evolution as the Bradlow parameter, which determines the vortex size, varies. It is shown by various...
Light Nuclei as Quantized Skyrmions (2007)
Manko, Olga V., Manton, Nicholas S., Wood, Stephen W.
We consider the rigid body quantization of Skyrmions with topological charges 1 to 8, as approximated by the rational map ansatz. Novel, general expressions for the elements of the inertia tensors,...
On the Spin of the B=7 Skyrmion (2006)
Manko, Olga V., Manton, Nicholas S.
We investigate the collective coordinate quantization of the icosahedrally symmetric B=7 Skyrmion, which is known to have a ground state with spin 7/2 and isospin 1/2. We find a particular quantum...
Reparametrising the Skyrme Model using the Lithium-6 Nucleus (2006)
Manton, Nicholas S., Wood, Stephen W.
The minimal energy B=6 solution of the Skyrme model is a static soliton with $D_{4d}$ symmetry. The symmetries of the solution imply that the quantum numbers of the ground state are the same as those...
Angularly localized Skyrmions (2005)
Manko, Olga V., Manton, Nicholas S.
Quantized Skyrmions with baryon numbers $B=1,2$ and 4 are considered and angularly localized wavefunctions for them are found. By combining a few low angular momentum states, one can construct a...
Reduced dynamics of Ward solitons (2004)
Dunajski, Maciej, Manton, Nicholas S.
The moduli space of static finite energy solutions to Ward's integrable chiral model is the space $M_N$ of based rational maps from $\CP^1$ to itself with degree $N$. The Lagrangian of Ward's model...