Succesful renormalization of a QCD-inspired Hamiltonian

The long standing problem of non perturbative renormalization of a gauge field theoretical Hamiltonian is addressed and explicitly carried out within an (effective) light-cone Hamiltonian approach to QCD. The procedure is in line with the conventional ideas: The Hamiltonian is first regulated by suitable cut-off functions, and subsequently renormalized by suitable counter terms to make it cut-off independent. Emphasized is the considerable freedom in the cut-off function which eventually can modify the Coulomb potential of two charges at sufficiently small distances. The approach provides new physical insight into nature of gauge theory and the potential energy of QCD and QED near the origin. The so obtained formalism is applied to physical mesons with a different flavor of quark and anti-quark. The excitation spectrum of the $\rho$-meson with its excellent agreement between theory and experiment is discussed as a pedagogical example.Comment: LaTeX2e, 8 pages, 5 figures, 0 tables, 29 references. Invited talk presented at the 4th International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics, at the ICTP Trieste, 12 to 16 May, 200

Zariski Quantization as Second Quantization

The Zariski quantization is one of the strong candidates for a quantization of the Nambu-Poisson bracket. In this paper, we apply the Zariski quantization for first quantized field theories, such as superstring and supermembrane theories, and clarify physical meaning of the Zariski quantization. The first quantized field theories need not to possess the Nambu-Poisson structure. First, we construct a natural metric for the spaces on which Zariski product acts in order to apply the Zariski quantization for field theories. This metric is invariant under a gauge transformation generated by the Zariski quantized Nambu-Poisson bracket. Second, we perform the Zariski quantization of superstring and supermembrane theories as examples. We find flat directions, which indicate that the Zariski quantized theories describe many-body systems. We also find that pair creations and annihilations occur among the many bodies introduced by the Zariski quantization, by studying a simple model. These facts imply that the Zariski quantization is a second quantization. Moreover, the Zariski quantization preserves supersymmetries of the first quantized field theories. Thus, we can obtain second quantized theories of superstring and supermembranes by performing the Zariski quantization of the superstring and supermembrane theories.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figure

Quantum-Classical Correspondence of Dynamical Observables, Quantization and the Time of Arrival Correspondence Problem

We raise the problem of constructing quantum observables that have classical counterparts without quantization. Specifically we seek to define and motivate a solution to the quantum-classical correspondence problem independent from quantization and discuss the general insufficiency of prescriptive quantization, particularly the Weyl quantization. We demonstrate our points by constructing time of arrival operators without quantization and from these recover their classical counterparts

Optimal Quantization in Energy-Constrained Sensor Networks under Imperfect Transmission

This paper addresses the optimization of quantization at local sensors under strict energy constraint and imperfect transmission to improve the reconstruction performance at the fusion center in the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We present optimized quantization scheme including the optimal quantization bit rate and the optimal transmission power allocation among quantization bits for BPSK signal and binary orthogonal signal with envelope detection, respectively. The optimization of the quantization is formulated as a convex problem and the optimal solution is derived analytically in both cases. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed quantization schemes