QUANTUM HALL SKYRMIONS WITH HIGHER TOPOLOGICAL CHARGE

We have investigated quantum Hall Skyrmions at filling factor v=1 carr ying more than one unit of topological, and hence electric, charge. Us ing a combination of analytic and numerical methods we find the counte rintuitive result that when the Zeeman energy is tuned to values much smaller than the interaction energy [g mu(B)/(e(2)/epsilon l)<8.4x10(- 5)], the creation energy of a charge two Skyrmion becomes less than tw ice the creation energy of a charge one Skyrmion, i.e., Skyrmions bind in pairs. The doubly charged Skyrmions are stable to further accretio n of charge and exhibit a 10% larger spin per unit charge than charge one Skyrmions which would, in principle, signal this pairing.