Questions tagged [solitons]
Solitons are self-stabilizing solitary wave packets maintaining their shape propagating at a constant velocity. They are caused by a balance of nonlinear and dispersive (where the speed of the waves varies with frequency) effects in the medium.
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Are cross sea waves solitons?
Last week I went to the sea and observed some waves of the type pictured here
By Michel Griffon - Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link
And I wondered if they were solitons or not. I've seen more than once ...
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An instanton in $d$ dimensions is often a soliton in $d + 1$ dimensions?
The title of this questions is a "folklore" I've heard from a lot of researchers, but I never understood why this is the case. I know what an instanton and soliton is, respectively in the ...
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Period behavior near separatrix in Hamiltonian system
Given the periodic potential Hamiltonian $H=\frac{p^2}{2} - \omega_0^2 \cos(q)$ I would like to show that near the separatrix the period has this behavior: $T(E)\sim |\log(\delta E)|$ with $\delta E=|...
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Boundary conditions for radial solution of gauged topological vortices
I am following the book Topological Solitons by Manton and Sutcliffe and I am struggling to understand a boundary condition they choose to find the radial solutions of gauged vortices with finite ...
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What are the two different $\mathbb{S}^n$ in the construction of the homotopy group $\pi_n(\mathbb{S}^n)$ that classifies topological defects?
According to Mukhanov's Physical Foundations of Cosmology,
Homotopy groups give us a useful unifying description of topological defects. Maps of the $n$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ into a ...
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How to Diagonalize Self-Interacting Scalar Hamiltonian for Mass Term from Polyakov Paper?
So, I'm reading through Polyakov's paper from 1974, "Particle Spectrum in Quantum Field Theory." I'm trying to work through all of the steps and properly understand everything. For context, ...
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Peak splitting in one-component reaction–diffusion equations
I am studying a one-component reaction–diffusion equation:
$$ \partial_t u(x,t) = D \partial^2_x u(x,t) + R\left(u(x,t)\right)$$
Looking at systems that exhibit a peak solution (solitary localized ...
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Spontaneous discrete symmetry breaking always implies domain walls
I've read several times that if a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken, then there exist domain walls that interpolate between the different vacua. However, Weinberg says that if the former ...
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Sum of topological charges is the Euler characteristic
I have seen many places claiming that the given a collection of topological defects on a 2-dimensional surface, the sum of the topological charges is $2\pi\chi$ (where $\chi$ is the Euler ...
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Stability and topological charge of kink (anti-kink) solutions (soliton)
I am reading the book << Gauge theory of elementary particle physics >>. In chapter 15, it presents a model having finite-energy solution.
First, we have a $1+1D$ spacetime model
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Must a field approach one of its vacua to have finite energy?
I'm reading these Cornell lectures on solitons (link doesn't work right now, but it just worked yesterday), and I can't seem to prove what I thought would be a simple analysis exercise.
Namely, ...
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Soliton solution of the NLS equation
My understanding of soliton - it is a moving pulse in a medium which does not change its structure with time. It has other properties like no interaction with other solitons (this could certainly be ...
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Completely Integrable Frustrated Lattice Systems
The Toda lattice is a prime example of a lattice system that is completely integrable, in the sense that it admits a Lax pair,
https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.51.703,
making it easy to find soliton ...
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Set of zeroes as coset space
I am currently studying Chapter 6 of Coleman S. - Aspects of Symmetry.
We study a spontaneously broken gauge theory in two spatial dimensions where the Lagrangian reads:
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Doubt on Lax formulation of Korteweg–de Vries equation
The Korteweg–de Vries equation is given by:
$$\frac{\partial u(x,t)}{\partial t}-6u\frac{\partial u(x,t)}{\partial x}+\frac{\partial^3 u(x,t)}{\partial x^3}=0$$
This equation can be formulated using ...
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