BROWNIAN MOTION OF SOLITONS IN THE ϕ4MODEL

Abstract

We derive an expression for the correlation function of the random force on a soliton which is consistent with the constraints needed to integrate out the zero modes which appear due to the broken translational symmetry of the soliton solution. It is shown that when the constraint does not commute with the operator which defines the correlation function, i.e. when the operator is not physical, only low frequency phonon contributions may be considered. On the contrary, when the correlation function of the random force on the soliton is constructed with physical operators one may also include in a correct manner the contributions from the optical phonons.