Analytical characterization of oscillon energy and lifetime

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jul 4;101(1):011602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.011602. Epub 2008 Jul 3.

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.