Classical behaviour of Q-balls in the Wick-Cutkosky model

In this paper, we continue discussing Q-balls in the Wick--Cutkosky model. Despite Q-balls in this model are composed of two scalar fields, they turn out to be very useful and illustrative for examining various important properties of Q-balls. In particular, in the present paper we study in detail (analytically and numerically) the problem of classical stability of Q-balls, including the nonlinear evolution of classically unstable Q-balls, as well as the behaviour of Q-balls in external fields in the non-relativistic limit.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX; v2: section 3.3 slightly enlarged, typos corrected, minor changes in the tex

Unstable Semiclassical Trajectories in Tunneling

Some tunneling phenomena are described, in the semiclassical approximation, by unstable complex trajectories. We develop a systematic procedure to stabilize the trajectories and to calculate the tunneling probability, including both the suppression exponent and prefactor. We find that the instability of tunneling solutions modifies the power-law dependence of the prefactor on h as compared to the case of stable solutions.Comment: Journal version; 4 pages, 2 figure

Are R2R^2- and Higgs-inflations really unlikely?

We address the question of unlikeness of $R^2$- and Higgs inflations exhibiting exponentially flat potentials and hence apparently violating the inherent in a chaotic inflation initial condition when kinetic, gradient and potential terms are all of order one in Planck units. Placing the initial conditions in the Jourdan frame we find both models not worse than any other models with unbounded from above potentials: the terms in the Einstein frame are all of the same order, though appropriately smaller.Comment: 7 pages; replaced with the journal versio

Search for glitches of gamma-ray pulsars with deep learning

The pulsar glitches are generally assumed to be an apparent manifestation of the superfluid interior of the neutron stars. Most of them were discovered and extensively studied by continuous monitoring in the radio wavelengths. The Fermi-LAT space telescope has made a revolution uncovering a large population of gamma-ray pulsars. In this paper we suggest to employ these observations for the searches of new glitches. We develop the method capable of detecting step-like frequency change associated with glitches in a sparse gamma-ray data. It is based on the calculations of the weighted H-test statistics and glitch identification by a convolutional neural network. The method demonstrates high accuracy on the Monte Carlo set and will be applied for searches of the pulsar glitches in the real gamma-ray data in the future works.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Overbarrier reflection in quantum mechanics with multiple degrees of freedom

We present an analytic example of two dimensional quantum mechanical system, where the exponential suppression of the probability of over-barrier reflection changes non-monotonically with energy. The suppression is minimal at certain "optimal" energies where reflection occurs with exponentially larger probability than at other energies

Complex trajectories in chaotic dynamical tunneling

We develop the semiclassical method of complex trajectories in application to chaotic dynamical tunneling. First, we suggest a systematic numerical technique for obtaining complex tunneling trajectories by the gradual deformation of the classical ones. This provides a natural classification of the tunneling solutions. Second, we present a heuristic procedure for sorting out the least suppressed trajectory. As an illustration, we apply our technique to the process of chaotic tunneling in a quantum mechanical model with two degrees of freedom. Our analysis reveals rich dynamics of the system. At the classical level, there exists an infinite set of unstable solutions forming a fractal structure. This structure is inherited by the complex tunneling paths and plays the central role in the semiclassical study. The process we consider exhibits the phenomenon of optimal tunneling: the suppression exponent of the tunneling probability has a local minimum at a certain energy which is thus (locally) the optimal energy for tunneling. We test the proposed method by comparison of the semiclassical results with the results of the exact quantum computations and find a good agreement