The Size of a Soliton

2022/07/04 by Wheater, John F., Xavier, P. D.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.01274

Abstract

We consider the recently proposed Bound State Conjecture for quantum field theory in the context of solitons in two dimensional ϕ⁴ scalar field theory. We calculate the quantum correction to the size of the soliton which, taken together with the known mass correction, shows behaviour consistent with regarding the soliton as a bound state, and with the conjecture.

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