Exact kink-gas phenomenology at low temperatures
- 15 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 22 (10) , 4558-4561
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.22.4558
Abstract
We show that the low-temperature ideal kink-gas phenomenology developed by Currie et al. for the classical statistical mechanics of one-dimensional kink-bearing systems is exact for all potentials in the nonlinear Klein-Gordon family (e.g., sine-Gordon, , double-sine-Gordon, etc.). A general kink-density formula is presented which does not require explicit knowledge of the kink wave form or its small oscillations.
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