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Soliton tunneling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a numerical simulation of the scattering of a topological soliton off finite size attractive impurities, repulsive impurities and a combination of both. The attractive and attractive-repulsive cases show similar features to those found for δ\delta function type of impurities. For the repulsive case, corresponding to a finite width barrier, the soliton behaves completely classically. No tunneling occurs for sub-barrier kinetic energies despite the extended nature of the soliton.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9704208,
  title  = {Soliton tunneling},
  author = {G. Kälbermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9704208},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Latex source, 5 postscipt figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E, rapid communications

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