Published July 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

Interaction between kinks and antikinks with double long-range tails

  • 1. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, 1235, Recife, PE - 50670-901 (Brazil)

Description

We explore a class of ϕ4n models with kink and antikink solutions that have long-range tails on both sides, specializing to the cases with n=2 and n=3. 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, ϕ4n with n>1, the kink-antikink annihilation behaves differently from the archetypal ϕ4 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.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136361

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136361;
PII
S0370269321003014;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
818
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54083235
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANNIHILATION; CRITICAL VELOCITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; RELATIVISTIC RANGE
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; INTERACTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; VELOCITY

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Copyright (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.