Abstract
We show that a spectral wall, i.e., an obstacle in the dynamics of a bosonic soliton, which arises due to the transition of a normal mode into the continuum spectrum, exists after coupling the original bosonic model to fermions. This spectral wall can be experienced if the boson or fermion field is in an excited state. Furthermore, while passing through a spectral wall, an incoming kink-fermion bound state can be separated into purely bosonic kink, which continues to move to spatial infinity and a fermionic cloud that spreads in the region before the wall.
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Campos, J.G.F., Mohammadi, A., Queiruga, J.M. et al. Fermionic spectral walls in kink collisions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 71 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2023)071
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Keywords
- Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
- Nonperturbative Effects
- Solitons Monopoles and Instantons