Scattering of kinks in Frankensteinian potentials: Kinks as bubbles of exotic mass and phase transitions in oscillon production
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| author | Rafaj, Lukáš Karpíšek, Ondřej Nicolas Blaschke, Filip |
| author_facet | Rafaj, Lukáš Karpíšek, Ondřej Nicolas Blaschke, Filip |
| contents | We present a dynamical picture of kink-anti-kink scattering in a pair of special, Frankensteinian potentials made of piece-wise quadratic and linear pieces. Specifically, we focus on models that support kinks without skin and core regions. We propose an intuitive interpretation for these models as being essentially free massive theories with a built-in particle-pair like production mechanism that enters into the dynamics above certain field-value thresholds. We present results concerning the kink's characteristics depending on these thresholds and the distribution of bouncing windows. We show that the second model exhibits a phase-transition-like property in which the nature of collisions switches from disintegration into a massive wave to production of oscillons for large segments of initial velocities when the field threshold is low enough. |
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| spellingShingle | Scattering of kinks in Frankensteinian potentials: Kinks as bubbles of exotic mass and phase transitions in oscillon production Rafaj, Lukáš Karpíšek, Ondřej Nicolas Blaschke, Filip High Energy Physics - Theory Pattern Formation and Solitons We present a dynamical picture of kink-anti-kink scattering in a pair of special, Frankensteinian potentials made of piece-wise quadratic and linear pieces. Specifically, we focus on models that support kinks without skin and core regions. We propose an intuitive interpretation for these models as being essentially free massive theories with a built-in particle-pair like production mechanism that enters into the dynamics above certain field-value thresholds. We present results concerning the kink's characteristics depending on these thresholds and the distribution of bouncing windows. We show that the second model exhibits a phase-transition-like property in which the nature of collisions switches from disintegration into a massive wave to production of oscillons for large segments of initial velocities when the field threshold is low enough. |
| title | Scattering of kinks in Frankensteinian potentials: Kinks as bubbles of exotic mass and phase transitions in oscillon production |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Pattern Formation and Solitons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04101 |