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Oscillons are classical oscillatory solutions with very long but finite lifetimes in real scalar field theories with appropriate potentials. An interesting feature is that resonances appear in the lifetimes of the oscillon for the initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Takaki Matsumoto , Kanta Nakano , Ryosuke Suda , Kentaroh Yoshida

The evolution of spherically symmetric unstable scalar field configurations (``bubbles'') is examined for both symmetric (SDWP) and asymmetric (ADWP) double-well potentials. Bubbles with initial static energies $E_0\la E_{{\rm crit}}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Marcelo Gleiser

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 models of real scalar fields with degenerate double-well potentials, spherically symmetric, large amplitude fluctuations away from the vacuum are unstable. Neglecting interactions with an external environment, the evolution of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Marcelo Gleiser , Richard Haas

A recent study demonstrated the existence of oscillons -- extremely long-lived localized configurations that undergo regular oscillations in time -- in spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theory with a fundamental Higgs particle whose mass is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Graham

Oscillons are long-lived, spatially localized field configurations, which are supported by attractive non-linearities in the scalar potential. We study oscillons comprised of multiple interacting fields, each having an identical potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Fabio van Dissel , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

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

Motivated by the observation of localized circular excitations (`oscillons') in vertically vibrated granular layers (P.B. Umbanhowar, F. Melo and H.L. Swinney, Nature 382 (1996) 793), we numerically investigate an extension of a…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-09-08 Catherine Crawford , Hermann Riecke

We present a novel type of soliton dubbed soft oscillons. In contrast with conventional oscillons the soft counterparts come in a continuum of unboundedly large sizes. They are peculiar also in that the oscillation frequency is set by their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Fabio van Dissel , Oriol Pujolàs

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

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

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

The cosmological remnants of a first-order phase transition generally depend on the perturbations that the walls of expanding bubbles originate in the plasma. Several of the formation mechanisms occur when bubbles collide and lose their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

We investigate the decay dynamics of oscillons through interactions with an external scalar field. To examine how robust the decay dynamics of oscillons via parametric resonance we previously found in Li et al. 2025 are to the specific form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Siyao Li

We study I-balls/oscillons, which are long-lived, quasi-periodic, and spatially localized solutions in real scalar field theories. Contrary to the case of Q-balls, there is no evident conserved charge that stabilizes the localized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-21 Kyohei Mukaida , Masahiro Takimoto , Masaki Yamada

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

Many classical scalar field theories possess remarkable solutions: coherently oscillating, localized clumps, known as oscillons. In many cases, the decay rate of classical small amplitude oscillons is known to be exponentially suppressed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-30 Mark P. Hertzberg

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

The non-linear dynamics of driven oscillations in the size of a spherical bubble are mapped to the dynamics of a Newtonian particle in a potential within the incompressible liquid regime. The compressible liquid regime, which is important…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-30 Uri Shimon , Ady Stern

Analytical arguments suggest that a large class of scalar field potentials permit the existence of oscillons -- pseudo-stable, non-topological solitons -- in three spatial dimensions. In this paper we numerically explore oscillon solutions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Mustafa A. Amin , Richard Easther , Hal Finkel