Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-3-2008

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

We develop an analytical procedure to compute all relevant physical properties of scalar field oscillons in models with quartic polynomial potentials: energy, radius, frequency, core amplitude, and lifetime. We compare our predictions to numerical simulations of models with symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials in three spatial dimensions, obtaining excellent agreement. We also explain why oscillons have not been seen to decay in two spatial dimensions.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.011602

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