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Collective coordinate approximation to the scattering of solitons in modified NLS and sine-Gordon models

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2016)185

Keywords

Integrable Equations in Physics; Integrable Field Theories

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  1. STFC studentship
  2. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000407/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  3. STFC [ST/L000407/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We investigate the validity of collective coordinate approximations to the scattering of two solitons in several classes of (1 + 1) dimensional field theory models. We consider models which are deformations of the sine-Gordon (SG) or the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) model which posses soliton solutions (which are topological (SG) or non-topological (NLS)). Our deformations preserve their topology (SG), but change their integrability properties, either completely or partially (models become 'quasi-integrable'). As the collective coordinate approximation does not allow for the radiation of energy out of a system we look, in some detail, at how the approximation fares in models which are 'quasi-integrable' and therefore have asymptotically conserved charges (i.e. charges Q (t) for which Q (t -> -infinity) = Q (t -> infinity)). We find that our collective coordinate approximation, based on geodesic motion etc, works amazingly well in all cases where it is expected to work. This is true for the physical properties of the solitons and even for their quasi-conserved (or not) charges. The only time the approximation is not very reliable (and even then the qualitative features are reasonable, but some details are not reproduced well) involves the processes when the solitons come very close together (within one width of each other) during their scattering.

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