THERMAL RENORMALIZATION OF THE SINE GORDON SOLITON MASS

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作者
BISHOP, AR
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[1] Department of Physics, Queen Mary College, London, E1 4NS England, Mile End Road
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10.1016/0038-1098(79)91127-X
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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Soliton excitations appearing in the classical statistical mechanics of the sine-Gordon chain are identified. The concept of thermal renormalization of the soliton mass is introduced and shown to be a large effect. Comparisons with recent molecular dynamics simulations are found to be very encouraging. Finally, comments are made on the relevance of these ideas for quasi-one-dimensional planar Heisenberg ferromagnets such as CsNiF3. © 1979.
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