Dimensional deformation of sine-Gordon breathers into oscillons

Oscillons are localized field configurations oscillating in time with lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than their oscillation period. In this paper, we simulate non-travelling oscillons produced by deforming the breather solutions of the sine-Gordon model. Such a deformation treats the dimension...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-02
Main Authors: Gálvez Ghersi, José T, Braden, Jonathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitudes
Breathers
Configurations
Deformation
Dynamic stability
Mathematical models
Oscillons
Parameters
Transient oscillations
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Summary:Oscillons are localized field configurations oscillating in time with lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than their oscillation period. In this paper, we simulate non-travelling oscillons produced by deforming the breather solutions of the sine-Gordon model. Such a deformation treats the dimensionality of the model as a real parameter to produce spherically symmetric oscillons. After considering the post-transient oscillation frequency as a control parameter, we probe the initial parameter space to continuously connect breathers and oscillons at various dimensionalities. For sufficiently small dimensional deformations, we find that oscillons can be treated as perturbatively deformed breathers. In \(D\gtrsim 2\) spatial dimensions, we observe solutions undergoing intermittent phases of contraction and expansion in their cores. Knowing that stable and unstable configurations can be mapped to disjoint regions of the breather parameter space, we find that amplitude modulated solutions are located in the middle of both stability regimes. These solutions display the dynamics of critical behavior around the stability limit.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2303.04750