2005/09/30 by Conor Houghton, Shane Magee · 24 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Axial symmetry #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Configuration space #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Mode (computer interface) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantization (signal processing) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Skyrmion #Zero (linguistics) #Zero mode #Zero-point energy #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.093
published in Physics Letters B 632(4), 593-596 (Elsevier BV) · 8 pages, typos corrected, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
arxiv created 2005/11/03 · openalex publication_date 2005/11/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In the semi-classical approach to the Skyrme model, nuclei are approximated by quantum mechanical states on a finite-dimensional space of field configurations; in zero-mode quantization this space is generated by rotations and isorotations. Here, simulated annealing is used to find the axially symmetric Skyrme configuration which extremizes the zero-mode quantized energy for the nucleon.