Resonance structures in kink-antikink scattering in a quantum vacuum
Resonance structures in kink-antikink scattering in a quantum vacuum
Mainak Mukhopadhyay,T. Vachaspati
2023 · DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.116017
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Abstract
We investigate kink-antikink scattering in the λϕ4 model in the presence of an additional scalar field, ψ, that is in its quantum vacuum and interacts with ϕ via a ξϕ2ψ2 term where ξ is the coupling. The final state of such a scattering is either a bound state with eventual annihilation or a reflection of the kink-antikink pair. Without the ψ field, the outcome is known to depend fractally on the initial velocity of the kink-antikink pair. In the quantum vacuum of the ψ field, the fractal dependence gets modified and disappears above a critical interaction strength, ξ≈0.1.
