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As the longest lived transient, oscillons play a critical role in classical field theory simulations of many phenomena. However, beyond the classical approximation, it is well-known that quantum corrections open decay channels through which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Jarah Evslin , Katarzyna Slawińska , Tomasz Romańczukiewicz , Andrzej Wereszczyński

Oscillons are extremely long lived, oscillatory, spatially localized field configurations that arise from generic initial conditions in a large number of non-linear field theories. With an eye towards their cosmological implications, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-17 Mustafa A. Amin , David Shirokoff

The dynamical evolution of self-interacting scalars is of paramount importance in cosmological settings, and can teach us about the content of Einstein's equations. In flat space, nonlinear scalar field theories can give rise to localized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Taishi Ikeda , Chul-Moon Yoo , Vitor Cardoso

In this work, we report on the possibility of occurrence of oscillon configurations in the fourth state of matter. Oscillons are extremely long-lived, time-periodic, spatially-localised scalar field structures. Starting from a scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-21 R. A. C. Correa , W. de Paula , T. Frederico , O. Oliveira , F. E. M. Silveira

In string theory, the simultaneous existence of many Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are suggested over a vast mass range, and a variety of potentials have been developed in the context of inflation. In such potentials shallower than quadratic,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-04 Masahiro Kawasaki , Wakutaka Nakano , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Eisuke Sonomoto

Spherically symmetric oscillatons (also referred to as oscillating soliton stars) i.e. gravitationally bound oscillating scalar lumps are considered in theories containing a massive self-interacting real scalar field coupled to Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Gyula Fodor , Péter Forgács , Márk Mezei

We consider a (1+1) dimensional scalar field theory that supports oscillons, which are localized, oscillatory, stable solutions to nonlinear equations of motion. We study this theory in an expanding background and show that oscillons now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Farhi , N. Graham , A. H. Guth , N. Iqbal , R. R. Rosales , N. Stamatopoulos

Long-lived pseudo-solitonic objects, known as oscillons/oscillatons, which we collectively call real scalar stars, are ubiquitous in early Universe cosmology of scalar field theories. Typical examples are axions stars and moduli stars.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Francesco Muia , Michele Cicoli , Katy Clough , Francisco Pedro , Fernando Quevedo , Gian Paolo Vacca

Oscillons are massive, long-lived, localized excitations of a scalar field. We show that in a large class of well-motivated single-field models, inflation is followed by self-resonance, leading to copious oscillon generation and a lengthy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-09 Mustafa A. Amin , Richard Easther , Hal Finkel , Raphael Flauger , Mark P. Hertzberg

The sine-Gordon model in 3+1 dimensions is known to admit two oscillons of different energy and frequency but comparable lifetime. We show that the oscillon spectrum includes more spherically symmetric ``states''. We identify new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Fabio van Dissel , Oriol Pujolas , Evangelos Sfakianakis

Oscillons are spatially stationary, quasi-periodic solutions of nonlinear field theories seen in settings ranging from granular systems, low temperature condensates and early universe cosmology. We describe a new class of oscillon in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-23 Chang Liu , Richard Easther

The possibility that extremely long-lived, time-dependent, and localized field configurations (``oscillons'') arise during the collapse of asymmetrical bubbles in 2+1 dimensional phi^4 models is investigated. It is found that oscillons can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Artur B. Adib , Marcelo Gleiser , Carlos A. S. Almeida

Oscillons are long-lived nonlinear pseudo-solitonic configurations of scalar fields and many plausible inflationary scenarios predict an oscillon-dominated phase in the early universe. Many possible aspects of this phase remain unexplored,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Angela Xue , Kyle Chen , Baylee Verzyde , Peter Hayman , Richard Easther

In this work we study configurations in one-dimensional scalar field theory, which are time-dependent, localized in space and extremely long-lived called oscillons. It is investigated how the action of changing the minimum value of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-03 R. A. C. Correa , A. de Souza Dutra

Oscillons, extremely long-lived localized oscillations of a scalar field, are shown to be produced by evolving domain wall networks in quartic theory in two spatial dimensions. We study the oscillons in frequency space using the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Hindmarsh , Petja Salmi

Through a detailed numerical investigation in three spatial dimensions, we demonstrate that long-lived time-dependent field configurations emerge dynamically during symmetry breaking in an expanding de Sitter spacetime. We investigate two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-01 Marcelo Gleiser , Noah Graham , Nikitas Stamatopoulos

Oscillons in a simple, 1-dimensional scalar field theory with a cubic potential are discussed. The theory has a classical sphaleron, whose decay generates a version of the oscillon. A good approximation to the small-amplitude oscillon is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 N. S. Manton , T. Romańczukiewicz

In this paper, we study some interesting properties of a spherically symmetric oscillating soliton star made of a real time-dependent scalar field which is called an oscillaton. The known final configuration of an oscillaton consists of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

We use an information-theoretic measure of shape complexity known as configurational entropy (CE) to investigate numerically the remarkably long lifetimes of spherically-symmetric ``resonant oscillons'' in three-dimensional and of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Marcelo Gleiser , Max Krackow

We present a comprehensive, nonperturbative analytical method to investigate the dynamics of time-dependent oscillating scalar field configurations. The method is applied to oscillons in a double well Klein-Gordon model in two and three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-11 Marcelo Gleiser , David Sicilia