Oscillons and oscillating kinks in the Abelian-Higgs model

PoS CORFU2014 (2015) 122 We study the classical dynamics of the Abelian Higgs model employing an asymptotic multiscale expansion method, which uses the ratio of the Higgs to the gauge field amplitudes as a small parameter. We derive an effective nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the gauge...

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Main Authors Tsagkarakis, C. E, Achilleos, V, Diakonos, F. K, Frantzeskakis, D. J, Katsimiga, G. C, Maintas, X. N, Manousakis, E, Tsapalis, A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.08.2015
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Physics - High Energy Physics - Theory
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Summary:PoS CORFU2014 (2015) 122 We study the classical dynamics of the Abelian Higgs model employing an asymptotic multiscale expansion method, which uses the ratio of the Higgs to the gauge field amplitudes as a small parameter. We derive an effective nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the gauge field, and a linear equation for the scalar field containing the gauge field as a nonlinear source. This equation is used to predict the existence of oscillons and oscillating kinks for certain regimes of the ratio of the Higgs to the gauge field masses. Results of numerical simulations are found to be in very good agreement with the analytical findings, and show that the oscillons are robust, while kinks are unstable. It is also demonstrated that oscillons emerge spontaneously as a result of the onset of the modulational instability of plane wave solutions of the model. Connections of the obtained solutions with the phenomenology of superconductors is discussed.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1508.06209