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Creating kinks with quantum mediation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-02-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the creation of kink-antikink pairs of a scalar field ϕ\phi by the scattering of classical wavepackets of a second scalar field, ψ\psi, when there are no direct interactions between ϕ\phi and ψ\psi. The creation becomes possible only due to a quantum field that interacts with both ϕ\phi and ψ\psi. We scan parameter space and find it favorable for kink production when the initial wavepackets have large total energy and wide spatial extent but scatter at low velocities.

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@article{arxiv.2308.01962,
  title  = {Creating kinks with quantum mediation},
  author = {Omer Albayrak and Tanmay Vachaspati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01962},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures with subfigures. v2: expanded introduction, added references, further discussed the quantum nature of the system

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