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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Classical Soliton as a Limit of the Quantum Field Theory

Miki Wadachi, Masa‐aki Sakagami

Published Jun 15, 1984• 51 citations
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Abstract

In the Nonlinear Schrödinger model, the correspondence between classical soliton and its quantum field theory is investigated. It is shown explicitly that moving soliton as well as soliton at rest arise as the matrix elements of a field operator in the limit n →∞, where n is the particle number making the bound state.
DOI
10.1143/jpsj.53.1933

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