Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4664567 Acta Mathematica Scientia 2009 26 Pages PDF
Abstract

In Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), skyrmions can be characterized by pairs of linking vortex rings coming from two-component wave functions. Here we construct skyrmions by studying critical points of Gross-Pitaevskii functionals with two-component wave functions. Using localized energy method, we rigorously prove the existence, and describe the configurations of skyrmions in such BECs.

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