Resonance structures in kink-antikink scattering in a quantum vacuum
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-06-28 v2 Other Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We investigate kink-antikink scattering in the model in the presence of an additional scalar field, , that is in its quantum vacuum and interacts with via a term where is the coupling. The final state of such a scattering is either a bound state with eventual annihilation or a reflection of the kink-antikink pair. Without the field, the outcome is known to depend fractally on the initial velocity of the kink-antikink pair. In the quantum vacuum of the field, the fractal dependence gets modified and disappears above a critical interaction strength, .
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@article{arxiv.2303.03415,
title = {Resonance structures in kink-antikink scattering in a quantum vacuum},
author = {Mainak Mukhopadhyay and Tanmay Vachaspati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03415},
year = {2023}
}
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11 pages, 9 figures, published version