A new non-Abelian Higgs model on R^3 supports attractive and repulsive monopole phases stabilized by a Higgs analogue of the Chern-Pontryagin charge rather than the standard topological bound.
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We construct monopole solutions in SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, carrying magnetic charge n. For vanishing and small Higgs selfcoupling, these multimonopole solutions are gravitationally bound. Their mass per unit charge is lower than the mass of the n=1 monopole. For large Higgs selfcoupling only a repulsive phase exists.
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Attractive and repulsive Yang-Mills--Higgs magnetic monopoles on $\mathbb{R}^3$
A new non-Abelian Higgs model on R^3 supports attractive and repulsive monopole phases stabilized by a Higgs analogue of the Chern-Pontryagin charge rather than the standard topological bound.