  Semitopological Vortices (Q-Rings) are identified to be classical soliton
configurations whose stability is attributed to both topological and
nontopological charges. We discuss some recent work on the simplest possible
realization of such a configuration in a scalar field theory with an unbroken
U(1) global symmetry. We show that Q-Rings correspond to local minima of the
energy, exhibit numerical solutions of their field configurations and derive
virial theorems demonstrating their stability.
