Energy levels of interacting fields in a box

DOI10.1023/A:1026674307336zbMATH Open0963.81015arXivhep-th/9905158OpenAlexW1582097116MaRDI QIDQ1964504FDOQ1964504

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)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet boundary conditionsnumerical solutionstranscendental equationenergy levels of bound stateskink-type potentialKlein-Gordon type equationone-dimensional boxscalar, self-interacting field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• On energy levels of a particle in a comblike structure

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