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The symmetric dynamics of two kinks and one antikink in classical (1+1)-dimensional $\phi^4$ theory is investigated. Gradient flow is used to construct a collective coordinate model of the system. The relationship between the discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 N. S. Manton , H. Merabet

We study the scattering processes of kink-antikink and kink-kink pairs in a field theory model with non-differentiable potential at its minima. The kink-antikink scattering includes cases of capture and escape of the soliton pair separated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 F. M. Hahne , P. Klimas

We study the non-integrable $\phi^{6}$ model on the half-line. The model has two topological sectors. We chose solutions from just one topological sector to fix the initial conditions. The scalar field satisfies a Neumann boundary condition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Fred C. Lima , Fabiano C. Simas , K. Z. Nobrega , Adalto R. Gomes

The resonant interaction of the $\phi^4$ kink with a periodic $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric perturbation is observed in the frame of the continuum model and with the help of a two degree of freedom collective variable model derived in PRA 89,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-15 Danial Saadatmand , Denis I. Borisov , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Kun Zhou , Sergey V. Dmitriev

In contrast to the complex $\phi^4$ model, vortex-antivortex collisions in the complex $\phi^6$ theory reveal a resonant structure due to the existence of a remarkably stable, long-lived, large amplitude oscillon in the broken vacuum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 D. Canillas Martínez , A. González-Parra , D. Miguélez-Caballero , A. Wereszczynski

We study collisions of kinks in the one-space and one-time dimensional noncanonical nonintegrable scalar $\phi^{6}$ model. We examine the energy density of the kink, and we find that, as a function of the parameters that control the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 I. Takyi , S. Gyampoh , B. Barnes , J. Ackora-Prah , G. A. Okyere

In this paper the scattering between a wobbling kink and a wobbling antikink in the standard $\phi^4$ model is numerically investigated. The dependence of the final velocities, wobbling amplitudes and frequencies of the scattered kinks on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-03 A. Alonso-Izquierdo , L. M. Nieto , J. Queiroga-Nunes

We explore a {\phi}^4 model with an added external parabolic potential term. This term dramatically alters the spectral properties of the system. We identify single and multiple kink solutions and examine their stability features;…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 R. M. Ross , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. K. Campbell , R. Decker , A. Demirkaya

In this work we examine kink-antikink collisions in two distinct hyperbolic models. The models depend on a deformation parameter, which controls two main characteristics of the potential with two degenerate minima: the height of the barrier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 D. Bazeia , Adalto R. Gomes , K. Z. Nobrega , Fabiano C. Simas

The radiation from oscillating kink in (1+1) dimensional relativistic $\phi^4$ model is considered. Both analytical and numerical approaches are presented and the comparison between these methods is discussed. Acceleration of the kink in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Romanczukiewicz

We study kink-antikink scattering in the sine-Gordon model in the presence of interactions with an additional scalar field, $\psi$, that is in its quantum vacuum. In contrast to the classical scattering, now there is quantum radiation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis , Tanmay Vachaspati , George Zahariade

We examine various recently proposed discretizations of the well-known $\phi^4$ field theory. We compare and contrast the properties of their fundamental solutions including the nature of their kink-type solitary waves and the spectral…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-11-26 Ishani Roy , Sergey V. Dmitriev , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Avadh Saxena

In this paper, kink scattering in the dimensional reduction of the bosonic sector of a one-parameter family of generalized Wess-Zumino models with three vacuum points is discussed. The value of the model parameter determines the specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-08 A. Alonso-Izquierdo , M. A. Gonzalez Leon , J. Martin Vaquero , M. de la Torre Mayado

We show that the decay of strongly excited oscillons in a single vacuum model reveals a chaotic, fractal-like pattern very much like one found in kink-antikink collision in the $\phi^4$ model. This structure can be attributed to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-14 F. Blaschke , T. Romańczukiewicz , K. Sławińska , A. Wereszczyński

We propose a toy model to reproduce the fractal structure of kink and antikink collisions on one topological sector of $\phi^6$ theory. Using the toy model, we investigate the missing bounce windows observed in the fractal structure, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-09 Lingxiao Long , Xiang Li , Yunguo Jiang

We study kink-antikink collisions in a particular case of the double sine-Gordon model depending on only one parameter $r$. The scattering process of large kink-antikink shows the changing of the topological sector. For some parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Fabiano C. Simas , Fred C. Lima , K. Z. Nobrega , Adalto R. Gomes

We present a numerical study of the process of the kink-antikink collisions in the coupled one-dimensional two-component $\phi^4$ model. Our results reveal two different soliton solutions which represent double kink configuration and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Halavanau , T. Romanczukiewicz , Ya. Shnir

In this paper the scattering between the non-topological kinks arising in a family of two-component scalar field theory models is analyzed. A winding charge is carried by these defects. As a consequence, two different classes of kink…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-03 Alberto Alonso-Izquierdo

In this work we investigate a $Z_2$ symmetric model of one scalar field $\phi$ in $(1,1)$ dimension. The model is characterized by a continuous transition from a potential $V(\phi)$ with two vacua to the vacuumless case. The model has kink…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 F. C. Simas , Adalto R. Gomes , K. Z. Nobrega

Higher-order scalar field models in two dimensions, including the $\phi^8$ model, have been researched. It has been shown that for some special cases of the minima positions of the potential, the explicit kink solutions can be found.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-26 Aliakbar Moradi Marjaneh , Fabiano C. Simas , D. Bazeia