2024/10/20 by N. S. Manton, Manton, N. S.
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Materials and Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.15412
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We recalculate the force exerted by an antikink on a kink when their overlapping tail fields are close to either a quadratic or quartic minimum of the field theory potential. Our uniform method of calculation exploits the modified Bogomolny equation satisfied by an accelerating kink. This method has been used before in special cases, but is shown here to have broad applicability.