482 research outputs found
Radiation and Relaxation of Oscillons
We study oscillons, extremely long-lived localized oscillations of a scalar
field, with three different potentials: quartic, sine-Gordon model and in a new
class of convex potentials. We use an absorbing boundary at the end of the
lattice to remove emitted radiation. The energy and the frequency of an
oscillon evolve in time and are well fitted by a constant component and a
decaying, radiative part obeying a power law as a function time. The power
spectra of the emitted radiation show several distinct frequency peaks where
oscillons release energy. In two dimensions, and with suitable initial
conditions, oscillons do not decay within the range of the simulations, which
in quartic theory reach 10^8 time units. While it is known that oscillons in
three-dimensional quartic theory and sine-Gordon model decay relatively
quickly, we observe a surprising persistence of the oscillons in the convex
potential with no sign of demise up to 10^7 time units. This leads us to
speculate that an oscillon in such a potential could actually live infinitely
long both in two and three dimensions.Comment: 16 pages, 28 eps figure
Numerical Investigations of Oscillons in 2 Dimensions
Oscillons, extremely long-living localized oscillations of a scalar field,
are studied in theories with quartic and sine-Gordon potentials in two spatial
dimensions. We present qualitative results concentrating largely on a study in
frequency space via Fourier analysis of oscillations. Oscillations take place
at a fundamental frequency just below the threshold for the production of
radiation, with exponentially suppressed harmonics. The time evolution of the
oscillation frequency points indirectly to a life time of at least 10 million
oscillations. We study also elliptical perturbations of the oscillon, which are
shown to decay. We finish by presenting results for boosted and collided
oscillons, which point to a surprising persistence and soliton-like behaviour.Comment: Matches the published version (12 pages, 34 figures
Oscillons and Domain Walls
Oscillons, extremely long-lived localized oscillations of a scalar field, are
shown to be produced by evolving domain wall networks in quartic theory in two
spatial dimensions. We study the oscillons in frequency space using the
classical spectral function at zero momentum, and obtain approximate
information of their velocity distribution. In order to gain some insight onto
the dilute oscillon 'gas' produced by the domain walls, we prepare a denser gas
by filling the simulation volume with oscillons boosted in random directions.
We finish the study by revisiting collisions between oscillons and between an
oscillon and a domain wall, showing that in the latter case they can pass
straight through with minimal distortion.Comment: 11 pages, 28 eps figure
Flat-top oscillons in an expanding universe
Oscillons are extremely long lived, oscillatory, spatially localized field
configurations that arise from generic initial conditions in a large number of
non-linear field theories. With an eye towards their cosmological implications,
we investigate their properties in an expanding universe. We (1) provide an
analytic solution for one dimensional oscillons (for the models under
consideration) and discuss their generalization to 3 dimensions, (2) discuss
their stability against long wavelength perturbations and (3) estimate the
effects of expansion on their shapes and life-times. In particular, we discuss
a new, extended class of oscillons with surprisingly flat tops. We show that
these flat topped oscillons are more robust against collapse instabilities in
(3+1) dimensions than their usual counterparts. Unlike the solutions found in
the small amplitude analysis, the width of these configurations is a
non-monotonic function of their amplitudes.Comment: v2-matches version published in Phys. Rev D. Updated references and
minor modification to section 4.
Oscillon resonances and creation of kinks in particle collisions
We present a numerical study of the process of production of kink-antikink
pairs in the collision of particle-like states in the one-dimensional
model. It is shown that there are 3 steps in the process, the first step is to
excite the oscillon intermediate state in the particle collision, the second
step is a resonance excitation of the oscillon by the incoming perturbations,
and finally, the soliton-antisoliton pair can be created from the resonantly
excited oscillon. It is shown that the process depends fractally on the
amplitude of the perturbations and the wave number of the perturbation. We also
present the effective collective coordinate model for this process.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, revtex
Numerical Simulation of an Electroweak Oscillon
Numerical simulations of the bosonic sector of the
electroweak Standard Model in 3+1 dimensions have demonstrated the existence of
an oscillon -- an extremely long-lived, localized, oscillatory solution to the
equations of motion -- when the Higgs mass is equal to twice the boson
mass. It contains total energy roughly 30 TeV localized in a region of radius
0.05 fm. A detailed description of these numerical results is presented.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, uses RevTeX4; v2: expanded results section,
fixed typo
Kink-Antikink Formation from an Oscillation Mode by Sudden Distortion of the Evolution Potential
We demonstrate numerically that an oscillation mode in 1+1 dimensions (eg a
breather or an oscillon) can decay into a kink-antikink pair by a sudden
distortion of the evolution potential which occurs within a certain time or
space domain. In particular, we consider the transition of a sine-Gordon
potential into a \Phi^4 potential. The breather field configuration is assumed
to initially evolve in a sine-Gordon potential with velocity and
oscillation frequency . We then consider two types of numerical
experiments: a. An abrupt transition of the potential to a form at
t_0=0 over the whole 1-dimensional lattice and b. The impact of the breather on
a region x>x_0=0 where the potential has the \Phi^4 form which is different
from the sine-Gordon form valid at x<x_0=0. We find that in both cases there is
a region of parameters (v,\omega) such that the breather decays to a
kink-antikink pair. This region of parameters for kink-antikink formation is
qualitatively similar with the parameter region where the energy of the
breather exceeds the energy of the kink-antikink pair in the \Phi^4 potential.
We demonstrate that the same mechanism for soliton formation is realized when
using a gaussian oscillator (oscillon) instead of a breather. We briefly
discuss the implications of our results for realistic experiments as well as
their extension to soliton formation in two and three space dimensions.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures. The Mathematica files used for the production of
the figures may be downloaded from
http://leandros.physics.uoi.gr/partkinks.zi
A Class of Nonperturbative Configurations in Abelian-Higgs Models: Complexity from Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
We present a numerical investigation of the dynamics of symmetry breaking in
both Abelian and non-Abelian Higgs models in three spatial
dimensions. We find a class of time-dependent, long-lived nonperturbative field
configurations within the range of parameters corresponding to type-1
superconductors, that is, with vector masses () larger than scalar masses
(). We argue that these emergent nontopological configurations are related
to oscillons found previously in other contexts. For the Abelian-Higgs model,
our lattice implementation allows us to map the range of parameter space -- the
values of -- where such configurations exist and to
follow them for times t \sim \O(10^5) m^{-1}. An investigation of their
properties for -symmetric models reveals an enormously rich structure
of resonances and mode-mode oscillations reminiscent of excited atomic states.
For the SU(2) case, we present preliminary results indicating the presence of
similar oscillonic configurations.Comment: 21 pages, 19 figures, prd, revte
Information Content of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
We propose a measure of order in the context of nonequilibrium field theory
and argue that this measure, which we call relative configurational entropy
(RCE), may be used to quantify the emergence of coherent low-entropy
configurations, such as time-dependent or time-independent topological and
nontopological spatially-extended structures. As an illustration, we
investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of spontaneous symmetry-breaking in
three spatial dimensions. In particular, we focus on a model where a real
scalar field, prepared initially in a symmetric thermal state, is quenched to a
broken-symmetric state. For a certain range of initial temperatures,
spatially-localized, long-lived structures known as oscillons emerge in
synchrony and remain until the field reaches equilibrium again. We show that
the RCE correlates with the number-density of oscillons, thus offering a
quantitative measure of the emergence of nonperturbative spatiotemporal
patterns that can be generalized to a variety of physical systems.Comment: LaTeX, 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
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