Year: 2019
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We compute the vacuum polarization energies for a couple of soliton models in one space and one time dimensions. These solitons are mappings that connect different degenerate vacua. From the considered sample solitons we conjecture that the vacuum polarization contribution to the total energy leads to instabilities whenever degenerate vacua with different curvatures in field space are accessible to the soliton.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.5114153
Author: H. Weigel
Institution: Stellenbosch University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2962847320