Quantum corrections to solitons composed of interacting fermions and bosons

To understand quark-confinement and hadron physics, many models have been proposed in attempts to describe hadrons as bound states of quarks through using solitons in an effective theory. Here we utilize a method of Green's function to study the quantum corrections to solitons at the one-loop level. We apply it first to investigate several two dimensional non-linear theories. We then generalize it to study in detail the one loop quantum corrections to nontopological solitons in the four dimensional Friedberg-Lee soliton model, which reduces to either the MIT or the SLAC bag model for appropriate limits of parameters in the theory. The derivative and inverse mass expansions to the non-local one loop energy are studied in detail. The behaviors of the model at finite temperature and baryon density are also studied