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Some Comments on Multigrid Methods for Computing Propagators
I make three conceptual points regarding multigrid methods for computing
propagators in lattice gauge theory: 1) The class of operators handled by the
algorithm must be stable under coarsening. 2) Problems related by symmetry
should have solution methods related by symmetry. 3) It is crucial to
distinguish the vector space from its dual space . All the existing
algorithms violate one or more of these principles.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX plus subeqnarray.sty (included at end),
NYU-TH-93/07/0
Dissipation scales and anomalous sinks in steady two-dimensional turbulence
In previous papers I have argued that the \emph{fusion rules hypothesis},
which was originally introduced by L'vov and Procaccia in the context of the
problem of three-dimensional turbulence, can be used to gain a deeper insight
in understanding the enstrophy cascade and inverse energy cascade of
two-dimensional turbulence. In the present paper we show that the fusion rules
hypothesis, combined with \emph{non-perturbative locality}, itself a
consequence of the fusion rules hypothesis, dictates the location of the
boundary separating the inertial range from the dissipation range. In so doing,
the hypothesis that there may be an anomalous enstrophy sink at small scales
and an anomalous energy sink at large scales emerges as a consequence of the
fusion rules hypothesis. More broadly, we illustrate the significance of
viewing inertial ranges as multi-dimensional regions where the fully unfused
generalized structure functions of the velocity field are self-similar, by
considering, in this paper, the simplified projection of such regions in a
two-dimensional space, involving a small scale and a large scale , which
we call, in this paper, the -plane. We see, for example, that the
logarithmic correction in the enstrophy cascade, under standard molecular
dissipation, plays an essential role in inflating the inertial range in the
plane to ensure the possibility of local interactions. We have also
seen that increasingly higher orders of hyperdiffusion at large scales or
hypodiffusion at small scales make the predicted sink anomalies more resilient
to possible violations of the fusion rules hypothesis.Comment: 22 pages, resubmitted to Phys. Rev.
Dynamical density-matrix renormalization-group method
I present a density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) method for
calculating dynamical properties and excited states in low-dimensional lattice
quantum many-body systems. The method is based on an exact variational
principle for dynamical correlation functions and the excited states
contributing to them. This dynamical DMRG is an alternate formulation of the
correction vector DMRG but is both simpler and more accurate. The finite-size
scaling of spectral functions is discussed and a method for analyzing the
scaling of dense spectra is described. The key idea of the method is a
size-dependent broadening of the spectrum.The dynamical DMRG and the
finite-size scaling analysis are demonstrated on the optical conductivity of
the one-dimensional Peierls-Hubbard model. Comparisons with analytical results
show that the spectral functions of infinite systems can be reproduced almost
exactly with these techniques. The optical conductivity of the Mott-Peierls
insulator is investigated and it is shown that its spectrum is qualitatively
different from the simple spectra observed in Peierls (band) insulators and
one-dimensional Mott-Hubbard insulators.Comment: 16 pages (REVTEX 4.0), 10 figures (in 13 EPS files
Ehrenfest regularization of Hamiltonian systems
Imagine a freely rotating rigid body. The body has three principal axes of
rotation. It follows from mathematical analysis of the evolution equations that
pure rotations around the major and minor axes are stable while rotation around
the middle axis is unstable. However, only rotation around the major axis (with
highest moment of inertia) is stable in physical reality (as demonstrated by
the unexpected change of rotation of the Explorer 1 probe). We propose a
general method of Ehrenfest regularization of Hamiltonian equations by which
the reversible Hamiltonian equations are equipped with irreversible terms
constructed from the Hamiltonian dynamics itself. The method is demonstrated on
harmonic oscillator, rigid body motion (solving the problem of stable minor
axis rotation), ideal fluid mechanics and kinetic theory. In particular, the
regularization can be seen as a birth of irreversibility and dissipation. In
addition, we discuss and propose discretizations of the Ehrenfest regularized
evolution equations such that key model characteristics (behavior of energy and
entropy) are valid in the numerical scheme as well
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