Self-dual Chern-Simons vortices

著者: R. Jackiw, Erick J. Weinberg - Physical Review Letters 1990 被引用: 679

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.