Dynamics of moving and spinning Skyrmions

May, 1993
35 pages
Published in:
  • Z.Phys.C 61 (1994) 479-494
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Report number:
  • DTP-93-29

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Abstract:
We study the intermediate- and long-range forces between moving and spinning Skyrmions, employing two different methods. One uses a relativised product ansatz for the Skyrme fields, the other models Skyrmions as triplets of scalar dipoles. The methods lead to the same finite-dimensional Lagrangian dynamical system which may be interpreted as a point-particle approximation to Skyrmion dynamics. We discuss in detail the dynamics in the so-called attractive channel and the interaction between well-separated and rapidly spinning Skyrmions, and point out the resemblance between the latter and the one-pion exchange potential in nuclear physics.
  • Skyrmion: interaction
  • interaction: Skyrmion
  • force: long-range
  • potential
  • Skyrmion: multiplet
  • multiplet: Skyrmion
  • approximation: moduli space
  • kinematics