Scattering of kinks in Frankensteinian potentials: Kinks as bubbles of exotic mass and phase transitions in oscillon production
This paper investigates kink-anti-kink scattering in piece-wise quadratic-linear "Frankensteinian" potentials, proposing an interpretation of these models as free massive theories with threshold-driven pair production and demonstrating a phase-transition-like shift from wave disintegration to oscillon formation based on field thresholds and initial velocities.