Wave-packet scattering off the kink-solution

DOI10.1142/S0217751X11054012MaRDI QIDQ2919130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. M. H. H. Abdelhady, Herbert Weigel

Publication date 2 October 2012

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3497

zbMATH Keywords

kinknonlinear effectsnumerical simulationscatteringwave-packet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S20) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: We investigate the propagation of a wave--packet in the $ph{i}^4$ model. We solve the time-dependent equation of motion for two distinct initial conditions: The wave-packet in a trivial vacuum background and in the background of the kink soliton solution. We extract the scattering matrix from the wave-packet in the kink background at very late times and compare it with the result from static potential scattering in the small amplitude approximation. We vary the size of the initial wave-packet to identify non-linear effects as, for example, the replacement of the center of the kink.

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