| Abstract: | The quantum treatment of soliton scattering in the sine-Gordon model, using the path integral collective coordinate method is generalized to N solitons. The solitions. The first quantum correction to the phase shift of N-soliton scattering is equal to the zero-point energy of an effective multi-soliton Hamiltonian. The energies of the oscillators of this Hamiltonian are shown to be equal to the stability angles of a complete set of solutions of the Schrödinger equation for small fluctuations around a classical N-soliton. Consequently, calculating the fluctuations and their stability angles by the inverse scattering method, we obtain the energies of the oscillators. The first quantum correction to the phase shift (the O(1) part in a development in powers of γ) is evaluated by summing the stability angles. This result is in agreement with the “exact” scattering amplitude conjectured by Faddeev, Kulish and Korepin. |
