Large and exact quantum degeneracy in a skyrmion magnet

We identify a large family of ground states of a topological C P N − 1 skyrmion magnet whose classical degeneracy persists to all orders in a semiclassical expansion. This goes along with an exceptional robustness of the concomitant ground-state configurations, which are not at all dressed by quantu...

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Main Authors: Douçot, B, Kovrizhin, D, Moessner, R
Format: Journal article
Published: American Physical Society 2016