Nudged Elastic Bands and Lightly Bound Skyrmions

• Published in: Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Date: 2023
• Main Authors: Speight, James Martin, Winyard, Thomas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2023
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212011
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Nudged Elastic Bands and Lightly Bound Skyrmions. James Martin Speight and Thomas Winyard. SIGMA 19 (2023), 073, 26 pages

It has become clear in recent years that the configuration space of the nuclear Skyrme model has, in each topological class, many almost degenerate local energy minima and that the number of such minima grows with the degree (or baryon number) . Rigid body quantization, in which one quantizes motion...