2000/03/28 by Richard Battye, Paul Sutcliffe · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(00)00506-x
published as Nucl.Phys. B590 (2000) 329-363 · 37 pages, including figures
arxiv created 2000/03/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We investigate the dynamics of Q-balls in one, two and three space dimensions, using numerical simulations of the full nonlinear equations of motion. We find that the dynamics of Q-balls is extremely complex, involving processes such as charge transfer and Q-ball fission. We present results of simulations which illustrate the salient features of 2-Q-ball interactions and give qualitative arguments to explain them in terms of the evolution of the time-dependent phases.