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Title: Creating Kinks from Particles

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 (United States)

We study the creation of solitons from particles, using the {lambda}{phi}{sup 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.

OSTI ID:
21179722
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.121601; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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