Peculiar charged vortices in Higgs models with pure Chern-Simons term

Abstract

We show that abelian as well as nonabelian Higgs models in (2 + 1) dimensions with the pure Chern-Simons term possess peculiar charged vortex solutions of finite energy. For all of them the magnetic field vanishes not only at infinity but also at the origin. Such objects can also be shown to exist in an abelian Higgs model without the Chern-Simons term but with non-minimal coupling.