Charge-Swapping Q-balls
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-05-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Soft Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
Q-balls are non-topological solitonic solutions to a wide class of field theories that possess global symmetries. Here we show that in these same theories there also exists a tower of novel composite Q-ball solutions where, within one composite Q-ball, positive and negative charges co-exist and swap at a frequency lower than the natural frequency of an individual Q-ball. These charge-swapping Q-balls are constructed by assembling Q-balls and anti-Q-balls tightly such that their nonlinear cores overlap. We explain why charge-swapping Q-balls can form and why they swap charges.
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@article{arxiv.1409.3232,
title = {Charge-Swapping Q-balls},
author = {Edmund J. Copeland and Paul M. Saffin and Shuang-Yong Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3232},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures