Kink-antikink collisions and multi-bounce resonance windows in higher-order field theories

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2021.105748MaRDI QIDQ2656824zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan C. Christov, Robert Decker, Aslihan Demirkaya, Vakhid A. Gani, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, A. Saxena

Publication date 16 March 2021

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00154

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringshigher-order field theorieskink-antikink collisionsmulti-bounce resonance windowssolitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study collisions of coherent structures in higher-order field-theoretic models, such as the $ph{i}^8$, $ph{i}^{10}$ and $ph{i}^{12}$ ones. The main distinguishing feature, of the example models considered herein, is that the collision arises due to the long-range interacting algebraic tails of these solitary waves. We extend the approach to suitably initialize the relevant kinks, in the additional presence of finite initial speed, in order to minimize the dispersive wave radiation potentially created by their slow spatial decay. We find that, when suitably initialized, these models still feature the multi-bounce resonance windows earlier found in models in which the kinks bear exponential tails, such as the $ph{i}^4$ and $ph{i}^6$ field theories among others. Also present is the self-similar structure of the associated windows with three- and more-bounce windows at the edges of two- and lower-bounce ones. Moreover, phenomenological, but highly accurate (and predictive) scaling relations are derived for the dependence of the time between consecutive collisions and, e.g., the difference in kinetic energy between the incoming one and the critical one for one-bounces. Such scalings are traced extensively over two-bounce collision windows throughout the three models, hinting at the possibility of an analytical theory in this direction.

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