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Domain walls formed during a phase transition in a simple field theory model with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in a periodic box have been demonstrated to annihilate as fast as causality allows and their area density scales $\propto t^{-1}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-13 Richard A. Battye , Steven J. Cotterill , Eva Sabater Andres , Adam K. Thomasson

Magnetic solitons are nonlinear, local excitations in magnetic systems. In this study, we theoretically and numerically investigate the properties and generation of one-dimensional (1D) topologically trivial magnetic solitons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Kai-Tao Huang , X. S. Wang

In this work we show a class of oscillating configurations for the evolution of the domain walls in Euclidean space. The solutions are obtained analytically. Phase transitions are achieved from the associated fluctuation determinant, by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-03 R. A. C. Correa , P. H. R. S. Moraes , Roldao da Rocha

We use the evolution operator method to find the one-loop effective action of scalar and spinor QED in electric field backgrounds in terms of the Bogoliubov coefficient between the ingoing and the outgoing vacua. We obtain the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee , Yongsung Yoon

The Cho-Faddeev-Niemi-Shabanov decomposition of the SU(2) Yang-Mills field is employed for the calculation of the corresponding Wilsonian effective action to one-loop order with covariant gauge fixing. The generation of a mass scale is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Holger Gies

We will show that 2-dimensional N=2-extended supersymmetric theory can have solitonic solution using the Hamilton-Jacobi method of classical mechanics. Then it is shown that the Bogomol'nyi mass bound is saturated by these solutions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Nobuyuki Motoyui , Shogo Tominaga , Mitsuru Yamada

We describe a method to create effective gauge potentials for stationary-light polaritons in two or three spatial dimensions. When stationary light is created in the interaction with a uniformly rotating ensemble of coherently driven double…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 J. Otterbach , J. Ruseckas , R. G. Unanyan , G. Juzeliunas , M. Fleischhauer

Based on the quantum mechanical scattering model, the dynamical assist effect and the multiple-slit interference effect in electron-positron pair production from vacuum are generalized to vacuum pair production of charged scalar bosons. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Zi-Liang Li , Ding Lu , Bai-Song Xie

Coupled double well (phi4) one-dimensional potentials abound in both condensed matter physics and field theory. Here we provide an exhaustive set of exact periodic solutions of a coupled $\phi^4$ model in an external field in terms of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

We report on the experimental observation of a new type of dark soliton in a fiber laser made of all normal group velocity dispersion fibers. It was shown that the soliton is formed due to the cross coupling between two different wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Han Zhang , Dingyuan Tang , Luming Zhao , Xuan Wu

Using the in-out formalism, we derive the exact one-loop QED effective actions for spinor field in a uniform electric field in two-dimensional global (anti-)de Sitter (A)dS$_2$ spacetime. The one-loop effective action probed by a scalar or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Chiang-Mei Chen , Sang Pyo Kim , Cristian Andres Rivera Medina

We present a systematic and unifying treatment of the problem of spontaneous nucleation of particle-antiparticle pairs in a (2+1)-dimensional system due to a static and uniform electromagnetic-like field, in the presence of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Roberto Iengo , Giancarlo Jug

We study the UV properties, and derive the explicit form of the one-loop effective action, for a noncommutative complex scalar field theory in 2+1 dimensions with a Grosse-Wulkenhaar term, at the self-dual point. We also consider quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , G. A. Moreno

Using techniques of effective field theory, we consider the thermodynamical properties of a dilute two-dimensional plasma interacting via a $1/r$ potential. The first one-loop correction to the partition function is already logarithmically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Manuel A. Valle Basagoiti

Ferroelectric domain structures, separated by domain walls, often display unconventional physics and hold significant potential for applications in nano-devices. Most naturally growth domain walls are charge-neutral to avoid increased…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-17 Yunfei Hong , Junkai Deng , Yang Yang , Ri He , Zhicheng Zhong , Xiangdong Ding , Jun Sun , Jefferson Zhe Liu

We show that the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking can trap a field theoretic system in a highly non-trivial state containing a lattice of domain walls. In one large compact space dimension, a lattice is inevitably formed. In two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nuno D. Antunes , Tanmay Vachaspati

Coupled triple well (phi6) one-dimensional potentials occur in both condensed matter physics and field theory. Here we provide a set of exact periodic solutions in terms of elliptic functions (domain wall arrays) and obtain single domain…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

We report on the generation, subsequent oscillation and interaction of a pair of matter wave dark solitons. These are created by releasing a Bose-Einstein condensate from a double well potential into a harmonic trap in the crossover regime…

We formulate a quantum coherent state picture for topological and non-topological solitons. We recognize that the topological charge arises from the infinite occupation number of zero momentum quanta flowing in one direction. Thus, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-17 Gia Dvali , Cesar Gomez , Lukas Gruending , Tehseen Rug

We compute the one-loop holomorphic effective action of the massless Cartan sector of N=2 SYM theory in the Coulomb branch, taking into account the contributions both from the charged hypermultiplets and off-diagonal components of the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Eremin , E. Ivanov