Semitopological solitons in planar ferromagnets
N Papanicolaou; P N Spathis; N Papanicolaou; Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece and Research Centre of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; P N Spathis; Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece and Research Centre of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Журнал:
Nonlinearity
Дата:
1999-03-01
Аннотация:
We establish the existence of a finite-energy solitary wave in a two-dimensional planar ferromagnet which moves rigidly at any constant velocity v that is smaller than the magnon velocity c. The shape of the calculated soliton depends crucially on the relative magnitude of v and c. For v<<c, the soliton describes a widely separated vortex-antivortex pair undergoing Kelvin motion at a relative distance . There exists a crossover velocity v<sub>0</sub> at which the vortex-antivortex character is lost and the energy-momentum dispersion develops a cusp. For v<sub>0</sub><v<c, the soliton becomes a lump with no apparent topological features and solves the modified KP equation in the limit . We also describe briefly a similar calculation of a vortex ring in a three-dimensional planar ferromagnet. These results together with the analytically known one-dimensional kink provide an interesting set of semitopological solitons whose physical significance is yet to be explored.
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