Energy levels of interacting fields in a box

DOI10.1023/A:1026674307336MaRDI QIDQ1964504zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. A. Espichán Carrillo, A. jun. Maia

Publication date 15 February 2000

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905158

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet boundary conditionsenergy levels of bound stateskink-type potentialKlein-Gordon type equationnumerical solutionsone-dimensional boxscalar, self-interacting fieldtranscendental equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We study the influence of boundary conditions on energy levels of interacting fields in a box and discuss some consequences when we change the size of the box. In order to do this we calculate the energy levels of bound states of a scalar massive field $chi$ interacting with another scalar field $phi$ through the lagrangian ${calL}_{int}=3/2gph{i}^{2}ch{i}^2$ in an one-dimensional box, on which we impose Dirichlet boundary conditions. We have found that the gap between the bound states changes with the size of the box in a non-trivial way. For the case the masses of the two fields are equal and for large box the energy levels of Dashen-Hasslacher-Neveu (DHN model) (Dashen et al, 1974) are recovered and we have a kind of boson condensate for the ground state. Below to a critical box size $Lsim2.932sqrt2/M$ the ground state level splits, which we interpret as particle-antiparticle production under small perturbations of box size. Below another critical sizes $(Lsim6/102sqrt2/M)$ and $(Lsim1.712sqrt2/M)$ of the box, the ground state and first excited state merge in the continuum part of the spectrum.

Review text

From the conclusions: In this work we calculate the solutions of a Klein-Gordon type equation in a one-dimensional box for which we impose Dirichlet boundary conditions and in the presence of a kink-type potential generated by a second scalar, self-interacting field which in our approximation is not subjected to the boundary conditions. Energy levels of bound states for nontrivial solutions are obtained as roots of a transcendental equation involving \(L\) and \(k\). Although we have not obtained analytic solutions to it, we have studied numerical solutions.

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