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We consider the generalization of the Kramers escape over a barrier problem to the case of a long chain molecule. It involves the motion of chain molecule of N segments across a region where the free energy per segment is higher, so that it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. L. Sebastian

We consider the interaction of solitons in a biharmonic, beam model analogue of the well-studied $\phi^4$ Klein-Gordon theory. Specifically, we calculate the force between a well separated kink and antikink. Knowing their accelerations as a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-13 Robert J. Decker , A. Demirkaya , N. S. Manton , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider a generalized discrete $\phi^4$ model and demonstrate that it can support exact moving kink solutions in the form of tanh with an arbitrarily large velocity. The constructed exact moving solutions are dependent on the specific…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey V. Dmitriev , Avinash Khare , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Avadh Saxena , Ljupco Hadzievski

We have investigated the head-on collision of a two-kink and a two-antikink pair that arises as a generalization of the $\phi^4$ model. We have evolved numerically the Klein-Gordon equation with a new spectral algorithm whose accuracy and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 T. S. Mendonça , H. P. de Oliveira

We study the effects of impurity scattering on the low energy edge state dynamic s for a broad class of quantum Hall fluids at filling factor $\nu =n/(np+1)$, for integer $n$ and even integer $p$. When $p$ is positive all $n$ of the edge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 C. L. Kane , M. P. A. Fisher

In this paper we study the dynamics of $\varphi^{4}$ kinks, generated by considering a particular argument of $\varphi^{4}$ field, in the presence of class of smooth space dependent potentials ie. barriers and wells. Various type of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-16 Jassem Al-Alawi

In the present work we construct kink solutions for different (parabolic and wave) variants of the fractional $\phi^4$ model, in both the sub-Laplacian and super-Laplacian setting. We establish existence and monotonicity results (for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Atanas G. Stefanov , P. G. Kevrekidis

In a classical, quartic field theory with $SU(N) \times Z_2$ symmetry, a class of kink solutions can be found analytically for one special choice of parameters. We construct these solutions and determine their energies. In the limit $N\to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Tanmay Vachaspati

In this paper we study gauge-invariant metric fluctuations from a Noncompact Kaluza-Klein (NKK) theory of gravity in a de Sitter expansion. We recover the well known result $\delta\rho/\rho \simeq 2\Phi$, obtained from the standard 4D…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Mariano Anabitarte , Mauricio Bellini

We analyze non-integrable deformations of two-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric quantum field theories with kink excitations. As example, we consider the multi-frequency Super Sine Gordon model. At weak coupling, this model is robust with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Giuseppe Mussardo

We study the radiation in kink collision via a model that varies between $\phi^6$ theory and $\phi^2$ theory with some discontinuities. Both numerical and analytical methods were used to investigate The kink-antikink(KAK) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-22 Xiang Li , Lingxiao Long

The purpose of this report is presentation of the main modifications of the standard Kibble-Zurek formalism caused by the existence of the unperfections in the system. We know that the distribution of kinks created during a second order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Dobrowolski

As a low-energy effective model emerging in disparate fields throughout all of physics, the ubiquitous $\varphi^4$-theory is one of the central models of modern theoretical physics. Its topological defects, or kinks, describe stable,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-03 Mariya Lizunova , Jasper van Wezel

We use a recently constructed linearized soliton sector perturbation theory to calculate the form factors relevant to the elastic scattering of ultrarelativistic mesons off of nonrelativistic kinks. Both localized kink wave packets and also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Jarah Evslin

In a (1+1)-dimensional scalar quantum field theory, we calculate the leading-order probability of meson multiplication, which is the inelastic scattering process: kink + meson $\rightarrow$ kink + 2 mesons. We also calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-23 Jarah Evslin , Hui Liu , Baiyang Zhang

This paper investigates a model containing $\phi^4$ kinks interacting with fermions. The fermion back-reaction is included in the equations of motion, which affects the kink-antikink collisions. We show that the fermion field generates a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-09 João G. F. Campos , Azadeh Mohammadi

For most discretisations of the $\phi^4$ theory, the stationary kink can only be centered either on a lattice site or midway between two adjacent sites. We search for exceptional discretisations which allow stationary kinks to be centered…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 I. V. Barashenkov , O. F. Oxtoby , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We identify persistent oscillations in a nonintegrable quantum Ising chain. In the integrable chain with nearest-neighbor interactions, the nature, origin, and decay of post-transition oscillations are tied to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Francis A. Bayocboc , Jacek Dziarmaga , Marek M. Rams , Wojciech H. Zurek

In recent years, three exceptional discretizations of the phi^4 theory have been discovered [J.M. Speight and R.S. Ward, Nonlinearity 7, 475 (1994); C.M. Bender and A. Tovbis, J. Math. Phys. 38, 3700 (1997); P.G. Kevrekidis, Physica D 183,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 O. F. Oxtoby , D. E. Pelinovsky , I. V. Barashenkov

It was recently proposed a novel discretization for nonlinear Klein-Gordon field theories in which the resulting lattice preserves the topological (Bogomol'nyi) lower bound on the kink energy and, as a consequence, has no Peierls-Nabarro…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. B. Adib , C. A. S. Almeida