Self-dual Chern-Simons vortices
- 7 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (19) , 2234-2237
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.2234
Abstract
We study vortex solutions in an Abelian Chern-Simons theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking. We show that for a specific choice of the Higgs potential the vortex satisfies a set of Bogomol’nyi-type, or ‘‘self-duality,’’ equations.Keywords
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