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Oscillons in the broken vacuum and global vortex annihilation

D. Canillas Martínez1, A. González-Parra1, D. Miguélez-Caballero2, and A. Wereszczynski3,4

  • 1IUFFyM, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced 1, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
  • 2Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Atomica y Optica and Laboratory for Disruptive Interdisciplinary Science (LaDIS), Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
  • 3Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Lojasiewicza 11, Kraków, Poland
  • 4International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2), Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8531, Japan

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 065023 – Published 23 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/y7dq-t9y5

Abstract

In contrast to the complex ϕ4 model, vortex-antivortex collisions in the complex ϕ6 theory reveal a resonant structure due to the existence of a remarkably stable, long-lived, large-amplitude oscillon in the broken vacuum. Surprisingly, it persists despite the absence of a mass gap associated with the flat direction in the broken vacuum. We demonstrate that its existence is related to a far-distance modification of the potential, namely, the appearance of an unbroken (false or true) vacuum.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 065023– Published 23 September, 2026
  • Received 15 April 2026
  • Accepted 8 September 2026
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