The Universal Floquet Modes of (Quasi)-Breathers and Oscillons
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| author | Evslin, Jarah Romańczukiewicz, Tomasz Slawińska, Katarzyna Wereszczynski, Andrzej |
| author_facet | Evslin, Jarah Romańczukiewicz, Tomasz Slawińska, Katarzyna Wereszczynski, Andrzej |
| contents | Just as linearized perturbations of time-independent configurations can be decomposed into normal modes, those of periodic systems can be decomposed into Floquet modes, which each evolve by a fixed phase over one period. We show that in the case of a (1+1)-dimensional relativistic field theory with a single scalar of mass $m$, all breathers, quasi-breathers and oscillons of length $1/ε$ have identical nonrelativistic Floquet modes at leading order in an $ε/m$ expansion. More precisely, these Floquet modes depend only on $ε$ and $m$, and are independent of the potential of the theory. In particular, there is a continuum of Floquet modes corresponding to each real momentum plus four discrete modes corresponding to space translations, time translations, boosts and amplitude changes. There are no discrete shape modes. We provide simple, explicit formulas for these universal leading-order, nonrelativistic Floquet modes. |
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| spellingShingle | The Universal Floquet Modes of (Quasi)-Breathers and Oscillons Evslin, Jarah Romańczukiewicz, Tomasz Slawińska, Katarzyna Wereszczynski, Andrzej High Energy Physics - Theory Just as linearized perturbations of time-independent configurations can be decomposed into normal modes, those of periodic systems can be decomposed into Floquet modes, which each evolve by a fixed phase over one period. We show that in the case of a (1+1)-dimensional relativistic field theory with a single scalar of mass $m$, all breathers, quasi-breathers and oscillons of length $1/ε$ have identical nonrelativistic Floquet modes at leading order in an $ε/m$ expansion. More precisely, these Floquet modes depend only on $ε$ and $m$, and are independent of the potential of the theory. In particular, there is a continuum of Floquet modes corresponding to each real momentum plus four discrete modes corresponding to space translations, time translations, boosts and amplitude changes. There are no discrete shape modes. We provide simple, explicit formulas for these universal leading-order, nonrelativistic Floquet modes. |
| title | The Universal Floquet Modes of (Quasi)-Breathers and Oscillons |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03961 |