Creating kinks from particles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v3 Other Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the creation of solitons from particles, using the model as a prototype. We consider the scattering of small, identical, wave pulses, that are equivalent to a sequence of particles, and find that kink-antikink pairs are created for a large region in parameter space. We also find that scattering at {\it low} velocities is favorable for creating solitons that have large energy compared to the mass of a particle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0803.0670,
title = {Creating kinks from particles},
author = {Sourish Dutta and D. A. Steer and Tanmay Vachaspati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0670},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. Animations at http://www.hep.vanderbilt.edu/~duttas/kkbar.html .Included acknowledgments and fixed (minor) typos. Clarifying remarks added. Version accepted for PRL