Monopole-antimonopole solution of the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs model

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作者
Kleihaus, B [1 ]
Kunz, J
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[1] Natl Univ Ireland, Dept Math Phys, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland
[2] Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Fachbereich Phys, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2000年 / 61卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.61.025003
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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As shown by Taubes, in the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield limit the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs model possesses smooth finite energy solutions, which do not satisfy the first order Bogomol'nyi equations. We construct numerically such a non-Bogomol'nyi solution, corresponding to a monopole-antimonopole pair, and extend the construction to a finite Higgs potential.
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