Vacuum polarization energy of the Shifman–Voloshin soliton

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2018
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We compute the vacuum polarization energy of soliton configurations in a model with two scalar fields in one space dimension using spectral methods. The second field represents an extension of the conventional ϕ4 kink soliton model. We find that the vacuum polarization energy destabilizes the soliton except when the fields have identical masses. In that case the model is equivalent to two independent ϕ4 models.
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CITATION: Weigel, H. & Graham, N. 2018. Vacuum polarization energy of the Shifman–Voloshin soliton. Physics Letters B, 783:434-439, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.027.
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Vacuum polarization, Polarization (Electricity), Solitons, Scalar field theory
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Weigel, H. & Graham, N. 2018. Vacuum polarization energy of the Shifman–Voloshin soliton. Physics Letters B, 783:434-439, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.07.027
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http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/108550
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