Quantum soliton scattering manifolds

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)182zbMATH Open1451.81365arXiv2004.14167MaRDI QIDQ2215420FDOQ2215420

Chris Halcrow

Publication date: 11 December 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the quantum multisoliton scattering problem. For BPS theories one truncates the full field theory to the moduli space, a finite dimensional manifold of energy minimising field configurations, and studies the quantum mechanical problem on this. Non-BPS theories -- the generic case -- have no such obvious truncation. We define a quantum soliton scattering manifold as a configuration space which satisfies asymptotic completeness and respects the underlying classical dynamics of slow moving solitons. Having done this, we present a new method to construct such manifolds. In the BPS case the dimension of the $n$-soliton moduli space $mathcal{M}_n$ is $n$ multiplied by the dimension of $mathcal{M}_1$. We show that this scaling is not necessarily valid for scattering manifolds in non-BPS theories, and argue that it is false for the Skyrme and baby-Skyrme models. In these models, we show that a relative phase difference can generate a relative size difference during a soliton collision. Asymptotically, these are zero and non-zero modes respectively and this new mechanism softens the dichotomy between such modes. Using this discovery, we then show that all previous truncations of the 2-Skyrmion configuration space are unsuitable for the quantum scattering problem as they have the wrong dimension. This gives credence to recent numerical work which suggests that the low-energy configuration space is 14-dimensional (rather than 12-dimensional, as previously thought). We suggest some ways to construct a suitable manifold for the 2-Skyrmion problem, and discuss applications of our new definition and construction for general soliton theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14167

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriessigma modelssolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Model quantum field theories (81T10) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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