Creating kinks from particles.
We study the creation of solitons from particles, using the lambdaphi(4) model as a prototype. We consider the scattering of small, identical, wave pulses, which are equivalent to a sequence of particles, and find that kink-antikink pairs are created for a large region in parameter space. We also find that scattering at low velocities is favorable for creating solitons that have large energy compared to the mass of a particle.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Sourish
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Dutta
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Steer
Tanmay
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Vachaspati