Oscillon and Q-balls - duality and charge swapping

by Andrzej Wereszczyński (Jagiellonian University)

Wednesday May 14, 2025, 11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Europe/Madrid

IFAE Seminar Room (In-Person)

I will show that, in models with a complex scalar field, oscillons and Q-balls are very closely related to each other. In particular, the charge swapping phenomenon, where the  U(1) charge periodically flows between several spatial regions, can be explained as an excited oscillon.