Skyrmion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a particular class of topological soliton that can be used to model certain properties of a nucleon.

    "No conclusive results are available yet; the hope is that the skyrmion would be stabilized at R#92;approx#92;lambda#95;c, where the gradient expansion breaks down and yet the skyrmion may still carry the quark quantum numbers."

  2. 2
    A type of topological soliton that occurs in magnetic materials and magnetic thin films.

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magnetic skyrmion

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"No conclusive results are available yet; the hope is that the skyrmion would be stabilized at R#92;approx#92;lambda#95;c, where the gradient expansion breaks down and yet the skyrmion may still carry the quark quantum numbers."

Etymology

Blend of Skyrme + fermion, after British physicist Tony Skyrme (1922–1987), who proposed the mathematical structure as a model of the nucleon in 1961.

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