Kink-antikink collision in a Lorentz-violating ${\varphi }^4$ model

Abstract

In this work, kink-antikink collision in a two-dimensional Lorentz-violating ${\varphi }^4$ model is considered. It is shown that the Lorentz-violating term in the proposed model does not affect the structure of the linear perturbation spectrum of the standard ${\varphi }^4$ model, and thus there exists only one vibrational mode. The Lorentz-violating term impacts, however, the frequency and spatial wave function of the vibrational mode. As a consequence, the well-known results on ${\varphi }^4$ kink-antikink collision will also change. Collisions of kink-antikink pairs with different values of initial velocities and Lorentz-violating parameters are simulated using the Fourier spectral method. Our results indicate that models with larger Lorentz-violating parameters would have smaller critical velocities $v_c$ and smaller widths of bounce windows. Interesting fractal structures existing in the curves of maximal energy densities of the scalar field are also found.

8 pages, 9 figures, final version published by Phys. Lett. B