One-loop results for kink and domain wall profiles at zero and finite temperature

Abstract

Using dimensional regularization, we compute the one-loop quantum and thermal corrections to the profile of the bosonic 1+1-dimensional phi^4 kink, the sine-Gordon kink and the CP^1 kink, and higher-dimensional phi^4 kink domain walls. Starting from the Heisenberg field equation in the presence of the nontrivial kink background we derive analytically results for the temperature-dependent mean field which display the onset of the melting of kinks as the system is heated towards a symmetry restoring phase transition. The result is shown to simplify significantly when expressed in terms of a self-consistently defined thermal screening mass. In the case of domain walls, we find infrared singularities in the kink profile, which corresponds to interface roughening depending on the system size. Finally we calculate the energy density profile of phi^4 kink domain walls and find that in contrast to the total surface tension the local distribution requires composite operator renormalization in 3+1 dimensions.

REVTEX4 24 pages, 4 figures. v3: minor rewordings in abstract and introduction, consistency with previous results clarified, references added

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