Stability of topological solitons in modified two-component Ginzburg-Landau model

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability of Hopfions in a modified two-component Ginzburg-Landau model, exploring new parameter regions and identifying conditions for stable topological solitons with parameter-independent energy at the boundary.

Contribution

It extends previous work by exploring uninvestigated parameter regions and mapping the stability boundary for Hopfions in the model.

Findings

Identified new parameter regions supporting stable Hopfions.

Mapped the approximate boundary between stable and unstable configurations.

Found that the energy at the stability boundary is independent of parameters.

Abstract

We study the stability of Hopfions embedded in a certain modification Ginzburg-Landau model of two equally charged condensates. It has been shown by Ward [Phys. Rev. D66, 041701(R) (2002)] that certain modification of the ordinary model results in system which supports stable topological solitons (Hopfions) for some values of the parameters of the model. We expand the search for stability into previously uninvestigated region of the parameter space, charting an approximate shape for the stable/unstable boundary and find that, within the accuracy of the numerical methods used, the energy of the stable knot at the boundary is independent of the parameters.