Journal of High Energy Physics (Dec 2020)

Solitary oscillations and multiple antikink-kink pairs in the double sine-Gordon model

  • Fabiano C. Simas,
  • Fred C. Lima,
  • K. Z. Nobrega,
  • Adalto R. Gomes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2020)143
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 12
pp. 1 – 22

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Abstract We study kink-antikink collisions in a particular case of the double sine-Gordon model depending on only one parameter r. The scattering process of large kink-antikink shows the changing of the topological sector. For some parameter intervals we observed two connected effects: the production of multiple antikink-kink pairs and up to three solitary oscillations. The scattering process for small kink-antikink has several possibilities: the changing of the topological sector, one-bounce collision, two-bounce collision, or formation of a bion state. In particular, we observed for small values of rand velocities, the formation of false two-bounce windows and the suppression of true two-bounce windows, despite the presence of an internal shape mode.

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