Quantum soliton scattering manifolds

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)182MaRDI QIDQ2215420zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chris Halcrow

Publication date 11 December 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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)

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.

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