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 by the scattering of classical wavepackets of a second scalar field, , when there are no direct interactions between and . The creation becomes possible only due to a quantum field that interacts with both and . 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