Fermion transfer in the φ4 model with a half-BPS preserving impurity

We study a fermion field coupled to a scalar via a Yukawa term. The scalar field is the phi(4) model with an impurity that preserves half of the Bogomanyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) property. We analyze the spectrum of the defects of the model and collisions between them both close to the BPS regime and not. As the fermion binds to these defects, it may be transferred from one to the other, which we quantify via overlaps, known as Bogoliubov coefficients. BPS collisions are less likely to transfer the fermion between defects and can be adiabatic for nonrelativistic velocities, especially for small coupling constants. Moreover, closer to the BPS limit only a small fraction of the fennion number is radiated away. In contrast, non-BPS collisions lead to more radiation in the fermion field and excitation of the fermion to higher bound states, and the result is more sensitive to the parameters.