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Resonance structures in kink-antikink collisions in a deformed sine-Gordon model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-13 v1

Abstract

We study kink-antikink collisions in a model which interpolates smoothly between the completely integrable sine-Gordon theory, the ϕ4\phi^4 model, and a ϕ6\phi^6-like model with three degenerate vacua. We find a rich variety of behaviours, including integrability breaking, resonance windows with increasingly irregular patterns, and new types of windows near the ϕ6\phi^6-like regime. False vacua, extra kink modes and kink fragmentation play important roles in the explanations of these phenomena. Our numerical studies are backed up by detailed analytical considerations.

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@article{arxiv.2106.09560,
  title  = {Resonance structures in kink-antikink collisions in a deformed sine-Gordon model},
  author = {Patrick Dorey and Anastasia Gorina and Ilya Perapechka and Tomasz Romańczukiewicz and Yakov Shnir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09560},
  year   = {2021}
}

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40 pages, 31 figures