Emerging translational variance : vacuum polarization energy of the 𝜙6 kink

Date
2017-07-30
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Hindawi
Abstract
We propose an efficient method to compute the vacuum polarization energy of static field configurations that do not allow decomposition into symmetric and antisymmetric channels in one space dimension. In particular, we compute the vacuum polarization energy of the kink soliton in the 𝜙6 model. We link the dependence of this energy on the position of the center of the soliton to the different masses of the quantum fluctuations at negative and positive spatial infinity.
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CITATION: Weigel, H. 2017. Emerging translational variance : vacuum polarization energy of the 𝜙6 kink. Advances in High Energy Physics, Article ID 1486912, doi:10.1155/2017/1486912.
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Keywords
Vacuum polarization energy, Kink soliton
Citation
Weigel, H. 2017. Emerging translational variance : vacuum polarization energy of the 𝜙6 kink. Advances in High Energy Physics, Article ID 1486912, doi:10.1155/2017/1486912.