Interaction between kinks and antikinks with double long-range tails
Abstract
We explore a class of models with kink and antikink solutions that have long-range tails on both sides, specializing to the cases with and . A recently developed method of an accelerating kink ansatz is used to estimate the force between the kink and the antikink. We use state-of-the-art numerical methods to initialize the system in a kink-antikink configuration with a finite initial velocity and to evolve the system according to the equations of motion. Among these methods, we propose a computationally efficient way to initialize the velocity field of the system. Interestingly, we discover that, for this class of models, with , the kink-antikink annihilation behaves differently from the archetypal model or even the kinks with one long-range tail because there is neither long-lived bion formation nor resonance windows and the critical velocity is ultrarelativistic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.01956,
title = {Interaction between kinks and antikinks with double long-range tails},
author = {João G. F. Campos and Azadeh Mohammadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01956},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures