Simon Fraser University
SFU Cosmology Seminars

For seminars and other local announcements, please subscribe to sfu-cosmo mailing list.


Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 11:30 in Zoom

Prof. José Tomás Gálvez Ghersi (Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Peru)

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 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 show how the availability of oscillons depends on the number of spatial dimensions. For small dimensional deformations, our findings are consistent with the lack of a minimal amplitude bound to form oscillons. In D≳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. This displays the dynamics of critical behavior for solutions around the stability limit.

Zoom: Zoom

Seminars in 2022:

2022-10-04 11:00 in Zoom - Chad Briddon (Nottingham): Using SELCIE to investigate screened scalar field models sourced by complex systems
2022-10-05 14:30 in P8445B - Chi-kwan Chan (Steward Observatory, U. of Arizona): Resolving the galactic center black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
2022-10-25 14:00 in P8445A - Victor Pozsgay (Imperial College, London): Low-energy EFT causality bounds
2022-11-08 11:00 in P8445A - Daniel Jiménez Aguilar (University of the Basque Country): The dynamics of domain wall strings
2023-01-24 14:00 in P8445A - Bartolomeo Fiorini (Queen Mary): Studying large-scale structure probes of modified gravity with COLA
2023-01-25 13:00 in P8445A - Rajendra Gupta (Ottawa): Do fundamental constants vary on cosmological time scale?
2023-04-11 17:00 in Zoom - Shinji Mukohyama (Kyoto): Effective field theory of black hole perturbations with timelike scalar profile
2023-05-09 11:30 in Zoom - José Tomás Gálvez Ghersi (Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Peru): Dimensional deformation of sine-Gordon breathers into oscillons

[ See complete seminar archives | iCal feed ]


Modified by Andrei Frolov <frolov@sfu.ca> on 2023-11-01