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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Spin of skyrmion
Baryons can be considered as solitions in Skyrme model(See also this post.):
Such Lagrangian haven't any information about number of colors. Bosonic or fermionic nature of baryons depends on number ...
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Periodic traveling waves of the form $\phi(x,t)=\psi_c(x-ct)$ for a $\phi^4$ model
Consider
\begin{equation}\label{1}
\partial^2_t\phi-\partial^2_x\phi=\phi -\phi^3,\: \ (x,t) \in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R} \hspace{30pt}(1)
\end{equation}
the $\phi^4$ model.
I know that
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Theory on domain walls
In Baryons in Quantum Chromodynamics, Zohar Komargodski have slide:
I wanna understand:
Why domein wall can have nontrivial worldvolume theory?
When such solitonic objects have interior degrees of ...
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Quantum solitons: derivation of $ \int {\phi^\prime}^2 dx = M$ using Lorentz invariance
I was reading through page 10 of this document (Chua, 2017) on quantum solitons, and came across the following statement relating to the equation for kinetic energy
$$T = \left(\frac{da}{dt}\right)^2\...
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An interesting observation: Ordered, up and down movement of vortex rings in water
I was watching a video on David Tong's research work when I stumbled upon a peculiar movement of vortex rings in water. Around the 1:20 time mark, Baths and Quarks: Solitons explained, David Tong uses ...
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Intuition about ADHM construction
I'm trying to understand reasons, why self-dual Yang-Mills equation can be reduced to algebraic equations. It's seem like a miracle.
In article Construction of Instanton and Monopole Solutions and ...
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In which representation are monopoles of grand unifying theories classified?
In the context of grand unification theories A.Zee's book states that $SU(5)$ (or $SO(10)$ if $SU(5)$ is considered as outdated as GUT candidate) as GUT and as spontaneously broken non-abelian gauge ...
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Intuition behind focusing vs defocusing in integrable systems like NLS, KdV, mKdV
The following are examples of integrable systems arising from the AKNS system (check out AKNS paper here and a short Wikipedia description)
Non-Linear Schrodinger equation
Korteweg-de Vries equation
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What does topologically stable mean?
I am working on an article about skyrmion manipulation and it is written that those particles are "topologically stable particle-like spin configurations that carry a characteristic topological charge ...
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How does the $U(1)$ global symmetry break in the gauged $XY$ model?
I'm studying the particle vortex duality, and I'm confused how we're able to say that in the Coulomb phase, the "hidden" $U(1)$ global magnetic symmetry spontaneously breaks.
gauged XY model: $\...
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Is there a difference between topological defects and topological soliton?
Is there a difference between topological defects and topological soliton? Or are these objects the same thing? I ask this because it very common find some papers whose the authors itself refer, for ...
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Will tsunami waves travel forever if there was no land?
If there was no land for tsunami waves to collide with, can the waves travel around the globe for forever?
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How solitons are related to particle physics?
Recently, I read a paper about introduction to solitons.
Author said that the solutions of sine-Gordon equation can be candidate for modeling elementary particles and there are some applications in ...
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Different between droplet and a soliton
I am working on the droplet state in a Bose-Bose mixture. I have a question about the difference between the droplet liquid state and the soliton state: How we can treat a droplet state? And how do we ...
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Why do we consider solitons as a composite object?
Can someone explain why do we consider solitons as a composite object? I know that there are dual theories which the role of fundamental and solitonic objects can be mapped to each other, but I can't ...
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