Negative radiation pressure exerted on kinks

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dc.creatorForgács, Péter
dc.creatorLukács, Árpád
dc.creatorRomańczukiewicz, Tomasz
dc.date2008-02-01
dc.date2008-02-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:40:05Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:40:05Z
dc.descriptionThe interaction of a kink and a monochromatic plane wave in one dimensional scalar field theories is studied. It is shown that in a large class of models the radiation pressure exerted on the kink is negative, i.e. the kink is {\sl pulled} towards the source of the radiation. This effect has been observed by numerical simulations in the $ϕ^4$ model, and it is explained by a perturbative calculation assuming that the amplitude of the incoming wave is small. Quite importantly the effect is shown to be robust against small perturbations of the $ϕ^4$ model. In the sine-Gordon (sG) model the time averaged radiation pressure acting on the kink turns out to be zero. The results of the perturbative computations in the sG model are shown to be in full agreement with an analytical solution corresponding to the superposition of a sG kink with a cnoidal wave. It is also demonstrated that the acceleration of the kink satisfies Newton's law.
dc.description23 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX/RevTeX
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0080
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0080
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D77:125012,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.125012
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200147
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleNegative radiation pressure exerted on kinks
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