479 research outputs found
On Zero Modes and the Vacuum Problem -- A Study of Scalar Adjoint Matter in Two-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory via Light-Cone Quantisation
SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory coupled to massive adjoint scalar matter is studied
in (1+1) dimensions using Discretised Light-Cone Quantisation. This theory can
be obtained from pure Yang-Mills in 2+1 dimensions via dimensional reduction.
On the light-cone, the vacuum structure of this theory is encoded in the
dynamical zero mode of a gluon and a constrained mode of the scalar field. The
latter satisfies a linear constraint, suggesting no nontrivial vacua in the
present paradigm for symmetry breaking on the light-cone. I develop a
diagrammatic method to solve the constraint equation. In the adiabatic
approximation I compute the quantum mechanical potential governing the
dynamical gauge mode. Due to a condensation of the lowest omentum modes of the
dynamical gluons, a centrifugal barrier is generated in the adiabatic
potential. In the present theory however, the barrier height appears too small
to make any impact in this odel. Although the theory is superrenormalisable on
naive powercounting grounds, the removal of ultraviolet divergences is
nontrivial when the constrained mode is taken into account. The open aspects of
this problem are discussed in detail.Comment: LaTeX file, 26 pages. 14 postscript figure
Fluctuation diamagnetism around the superconducting transition in a cuprate crystal with a reduced Meissner fraction
The magnetization around the superconducting transition was measured in a
TlPbSrCaCuO crystal affected by a considerable
reduction (55%) of its effective superconducting volume fraction but
still with a relatively sharp low-field Meissner transition, a behaviour that
may be attributed to the presence of structural inhomogeneities. By taking into
account these inhomogeneities just through the Meissner fraction, the observed
diamagnetism may still be explained, consistently above and below the
superconducting transition, in terms of the conventional Ginzburg-Landau
approach with fluctuations of Cooper pairs and vortices.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Violation of the Widom scaling law for effective crossover exponents
In this work we consider the universal crossover behavior of two
non-equilibrium systems exhibiting a continuous phase transition. Focusing on
the field driven crossover from mean-field to non-mean-field scaling behavior
we show that the well-known Widom scaling law is violated for the effective
exponents in the so-called crossover regime.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
VPOET: Using a Distributed Collaborative Platform for Semantic Web Applications
This paper describes a distributed collaborative wiki-based platform that has
been designed to facilitate the development of Semantic Web applications. The
applications designed using this platform are able to build semantic data
through the cooperation of different developers and to exploit that semantic
data. The paper shows a practical case study on the application VPOET, and how
an application based on Google Gadgets has been designed to test VPOET and let
human users exploit the semantic data created. This practical example can be
used to show how different Semantic Web technologies can be integrated into a
particular Web application, and how the knowledge can be cooperatively
improved.Comment: accepted for the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent
Distributed Computing - IDC'2008. September 18-20, 2008, Catania, Ital
Divine Foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil: Four Views
This paper examines the issues of divine foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil from the standpoint of four different theological systems: Open Theism, Arminianism, Molinism, and Calvinism. The author summarizes each view’s understanding of divine foreknowledge and then explains how this understanding applies to the view’s refutation of the Problem of Evil
What is Autonomy?
A system is autonomous if it uses its own information to modify itself and its environment to enhance its survival, responding to both environmental and internal stimuli to modify its basic functions to increase its viability. Autonomy is the foundation of functionality, intentionality and meaning. Autonomous systems accommodate the unexpected through self-organizing processes, together with some constraints that maintain autonomy. Early versions of autonomy, such as autopoiesis and closure to efficient cause, made autonomous systems dynamically closed to information. This contrasts with recent work on open systems and information dynamics. On our account, autonomy is a matter of degree depending on the relative organization of the system and system environment interactions. A choice between third person openness and first person closure is not required
Spontaneous breaking of the BRST symmetry in the presence of the Gribov horizon : renormalizability
An all orders algebraic proof of the multiplicative renormalizability of the
novel formulation of the Gribov-Zwanziger action proposed in Phys. Rev. D 86,
045005 (2012) [arXiv:1205.3934], and allowing for an exact but spontaneously
broken BRST symmetry, is provided.Comment: 15 page
Can planetesimals form by collisional fusion?
As a test bed for the growth of protoplanetary bodies in a turbulent
circumstellar disk we examine the fate of a boulder using direct numerical
simulations of particle seeded gas flowing around it. We provide an accurate
description of the flow by imposing no-slip and non-penetrating boundary
conditions on the boulder surface using the immersed boundary method pioneered
by Peskin (2002). Advected by the turbulent disk flow, the dust grains collide
with the boulder and we compute the probability density function (PDF) of the
normal component of the collisional velocity. Through this examination of the
statistics of collisional velocities we test the recently developed concept of
collisional fusion which provides a physical basis for a range of collisional
velocities exhibiting perfect sticking. A boulder can then grow sufficiently
rapidly to settle into a Keplerian orbit on disk evolution time scales.Comment: Astrophysical Journal, in pres
On the Interplay Between Edge Caching and HARQ in Fog-RAN
In a Fog Radio Access Network (Fog-RAN), edge caching is combined with
cloud-aided transmission in order to compensate for the limited hit probability
of the caches at the base stations (BSs). Unlike the typical wired scenarios
studied in the networking literature in which entire files are typically
cached, recent research has suggested that fractional caching at the BSs of a
wireless system can be beneficial. This paper investigates the benefits of
fractional caching in a scenario with a cloud processor connected via a
wireless fronthaul link to a BS, which serves a number of mobile users on a
wireless downlink channel using orthogonal spectral resources. The fronthaul
and downlink channels occupy orthogonal frequency bands. The end-to-end
delivery latency for given requests of the users depends on the HARQ processes
run on the two links to counteract fading-induced outages. An analytical
framework based on theory of Markov chains with rewards is provided that
enables the optimization of fractional edge caching at the BSs. Numerical
results demonstrate meaningful advantages for fractional caching due to the
interplay between caching and HARQ transmission. The gains are observed in the
typical case in which the performance is limited by the wireless downlink
channel and the file popularity distribution is not too skewed
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