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Monopoles and Knots in Skyrme Theory
We show that the Skyrme theory actually is a theory of monopoles which allows
a new type of solitons, the topological knots made of monopole-anti-monopole
pair,which is different from the well-known skyrmions. Furthermore, we derive a
generalized Skyrme action from the Yang-Mills action of QCD, which we propose
to be an effective action of QCD in the infra-red limit. We discuss the
physical implications of our results.Comment: 4 pages. Phys. Rev. Lett. in pres
Gravitationally Coupled Electroweak Monopole
We present a family of gravitationally coupled electroweak monopole solutions
in Einstein-Weinberg-Salam theory. Our result confirms the existence of
globally regular gravitating electroweak monopole which changes to the
magnetically charged black hole as the Higgs vacuum value approaches to the
Planck scale. Moreover, our solutions could provide a more accurate description
of the monopole stars and magnetically charged black holes
Finite Energy Electroweak Dyon
The recent MoEDAL experiment at LHC to detect the electroweak monopole makes
the theoretical prediction of the monopole mass an urgent issue. We discuss
different ways to estimate the mass of the electroweak monopole. We first
present a scaling argument which indicates that the mass of the electroweak
monopole to be around 4 TeV. To justify this we construct finite energy
analytic dyon solutions which could be viewed as the regularized Cho-Maison
dyon, modifying the coupling strengths of the electromagnetic interaction of
-boson in the standard model. Our result demonstrates that a genuine
electroweak monopole whose mass scale is much smaller than the grand
unification scale can exist, which can actually be detected at the present LHC.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/0210299,
arXiv:hep-th/970703
Kinetically-controlled thin-film growth of layered - and NaCoO cobaltate
We report growth characteristics of epitaxial -NaCoO and
-NaCoO thin films on (001) sapphire substrates grown by
pulsed-laser deposition. Reduction of deposition rate could change structure of
NaCoO thin film from -phase with island growth mode to
-phase with layer-by-layer growth mode. The
-NaCoO thin film exhibits spiral surface growth with
multiterraced islands and highly crystallized texture compared to that of the
-NaCoO thin film. This heterogeneous epitaxial film growth
can give opportunity of strain effect of physical properties and growth
dynamics of NaCoO as well as subtle nature of structural change.Comment: accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letter
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