The Universal Floquet Modes of (Quasi)-Breathers and Oscillons

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Hauptverfasser: Evslin, Jarah, Romańczukiewicz, Tomasz, Slawińska, Katarzyna, Wereszczynski, Andrzej
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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