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Coupled multi-component $\mathbb{C}P^N$ models with V-shaped potentials are analyzed. It is shown that the model has solutions being combinations of compact Q-balls and Q-shells. The compact nature of solutions permits the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 P. Klimas , L. C. Kubaski , N. Sawado , S. Yanai

Nodal, excited compactons in the $\mathbb{C}P^N$ models with V-shaped potentials are analyzed. It is shown that the solutions exist as compact $Q$-balls and $Q$-shells. The solutions have a discontinuity in the second derivative associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 P. Klimas , N. Sawado , S. Yanai

We study compact gravitating $Q$-ball, $Q$-shell solutions in a sigma model with the target space $\mathbb{C}P^N$. Models with odd integer $N$ and suitable potential can be parameterized by $N$-th complex scalar fields and they support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Pawel Klimas , Nobuyuki Sawado , Shota Yanai

We study $U(1)$ gauged gravitating compact $Q$-ball, $Q$-shell solutions in a nonlinear sigma model with the target space $\mathbb{C}P^N$. The models with odd integer $N$ and a special potential can be parameterized by $N$-th complex scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 Nobuyuki Sawado , Shota Yanai

We discuss Q-balls in the complex signum-Gordon model in d-dimensional space for d=1,2,3. The Q-balls have strictly finite radius. Their total energy is a power-like function of the conserved U(1) charge with the exponent equal to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Arodź , J. Lis

We consider a scalar field model with a self-interaction potential that possesses a discrete vacuum manifold. We point out that this model allows for both topological as well as non-topological solitons. In (1+1) dimensions both type of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Yves Brihaye , Adolfo Cisterna , Betti Hartmann , Gabriel Luchini

We study non-topological solitons, so called Q-balls, which carry a non-vanishing Noether charge and arise as lump solutions of self-interacting complex scalar field models. Explicit examples of new axially symmetric non-spinning Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We investigate spherically symmetric non topological solitons in electrodynamics with a scalar field self interaction U ~|\psi| taken from the complex signum-Gordon model. We find Q-balls for small absolute values of the total electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 H. Arodź , J. Lis

In this work we deal with non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in two space-time dimensions, in models described by a single complex scalar field that engenders global symmetry. The main novelty is the presence of stable Q-balls…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes , R. da Rocha

Complex scalar fields charged under a global U(1) symmetry can admit non-topological soliton configurations called Q-balls which are stable against decay into individual particles or smaller Q-balls. These Q-balls are interesting objects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Rebecca Riley , Christopher B. Verhaaren

While $CP^N$ models with analytic potentials are known to support finite-energy compact Q-ball and Q-shell solutions, their behavior in more complex Lagrangian frameworks remains a subject of active research. This work explores these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 E. L. Colaço , P. Klimas , L. R. Livramento , N. Sawado , S. Yanai

Scalars carrying a conserved global charge $Q$ can form stable localized field configurations composed of a large number of particles. These non-topological solitons are spherically symmetric and are called Q-balls. While usually analyzed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Dusty Aiello , Julian Heeck

Non-topological gauged soliton solutions called Q-balls arise in many scalar field theories that are invariant under a U(1) gauge symmetry. The related, but qualitatively distinct, Q-shell solitons have only been shown to exist for special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We present compact Q-balls in an (Anti-)de Sitter background in D dimensions, obtained with a V-shaped potential of the scalar field. Beyond critical values of the cosmological constant compact Q-shells arise. By including the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Betti Hartmann , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Isabell Schaffer

We discuss three different globally regular non-topological stationary soliton solutions in the theory of a complex scalar field in 3+1 dimensions, so-called Q-balls, Q-vortices and Q-walls. The charge, energy and profiles of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Ya Shnir

We investigate the presence of non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in (1, 1) spacetime dimensions. The model engenders the global U(1) symmetry and is of the k-field type, since it contains a new term, of the fourth-order power in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

This work deals with charged nontopological solutions that appear in relativistic models described by a single complex scalar field in two-dimensional spacetime. We study a model which supports novel analytical configurations of the Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 D. Bazeia , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

We study a multicomponent $CP^N$ model's scalar electrodynamics. The model contains $Q$-balls and $Q$-shells, which are nontopological compact solitons with time dependency $e^{i\omega t}$. Two coupled $CP^N$ models can decouple locally if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 P. Klimas , L. C. Kubaski , N. Sawado , S. Yanai

Q-balls are bound-state configurations of complex scalars stabilized by a conserved Noether charge Q. They are solutions to a second-order differential equation that is structurally identical to Euclidean vacuum-decay bounce solutions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-16 José Ramon Espinosa , Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili

In this work we deal with nontopological solutions of the Q-ball type in two spacetime dimensions. We study models of current interest, described by a Higgs-like and other, similar potentials which unveil the presence of exact solutions. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 D. Bazeia , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes
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