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Solitons in relativistic field theories are not necessarily topologically charged. In particular, non-topological solitons -- known as Q-balls -- arise naturally in nonlinear field theories endowed with attractive interactions and internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Shuang-Yong Zhou

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

We study the dynamics of $U(1)$ gauged Q-balls using fully non-linear numerical evolutions in axisymmetry. Focusing on two models with logarithmic and polynomial scalar field potentials, we numerically evolve perturbed gauged Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Michael P. Kinach , Matthew W. Choptuik

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 generalize the concept of Borel resummability and renormalons to a quantum field theory with an arbitrary number of fields and couplings, starting from the known notion based on the running coupling constants. An approach to identify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessio Maiezza , Juan Carlos Vasquez

Nonlinear field theories produce unstable but long-lived configurations known as oscillons. These structures have been studied with asymmetric and symmetric double-well potentials and extended to other forms of potentials. In the present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 T. S. Mendonça , H. P. de Oliveira

We study the excited states of the Q-balls by performing stationary perturbation on the spherical Q-balls. We find the exact solution of the stationary perturbation of the global Q-ball with thin wall approximation. For local Q-balls we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsuya Shiromizu , Tomoko Uesugi , Mayumi Aoki

Oscillons, extremely long-living localized oscillations of a scalar field, are studied in theories with quartic and sine-Gordon potentials in two spatial dimensions. We present qualitative results concentrating largely on a study in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Hindmarsh , Petja Salmi

Complex scalars in U(1)-symmetric potentials can form stable Q-balls, non-topological solitons that correspond to spherical bound-state solutions. If the U(1) charge of the Q-ball is large enough, it can support a tower of unstable radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-09 Yahya Almumin , Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We study a particular version of the theory of cosmological $\alpha$-attractors with $\alpha=1/3$, in which both the dilaton (inflaton) field and the axion field are light during inflation. The kinetic terms in this theory originate from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-10 Ana Achúcarro , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Dong-Gang Wang , Yvette Welling

We investigate Q-balls in a 1+1 dimensional complex scalar field theory. We find that the relaxation of a squashed Q-ball is dominated by the decay of a normal mode through nonlinear coupling to scattering modes and a long-lasting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Dominik Ciurla , Patrick Dorey , Tomasz Romańczukiewicz , Yakov Shnir

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

The entanglement renormalization flow of a (1+1) free boson is formulated as a path integral over some auxiliary scalar fields. The resulting effective theory for these fields amounts to the dilaton term of non-critical string theory in two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-29 Javier Molina-Vilaplana

We demonstrate the existence of non-abelian non-topological solitons such as Q-balls in the spectrum of Wess-Zumino models with non-abelian global symmetries. We conveniently name them Q-superballs and identify them for short as Q-sballs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Axenides , E. Floratos , A. Kehagias

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

Relativistic scalar field theories with a conserved global charge Q possess often (meta)stable spherically symmetric soliton solutions, called Q-balls. We elaborate on the perfect formal analogy which exists between Q-balls, and spherically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Enqvist , M. Laine

This dissertation discusses solutions to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials, focusing on the collapse and collision of bubbles and critical phenomena found therein. A new method is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ethan Honda

We present results from a study of the fine structure of oscillon dynamics in the 3+1 spherically symmetric Klein-Gordon model with a symmetric double-well potential. We show that in addition to the previously understood longevity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ethan P. Honda , Matthew W. Choptuik

We study linear perturbations of classically stable Q-balls in theories admitting analytic solutions. Although the corresponding boundary value problem is non-Hermitian, the analysis of perturbations can also be performed analytically in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 A. Kovtun , E. Nugaev , A. Shkerin

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