142 research outputs found
Diagrammatic approach to orbital quantum impurities interacting with a many-particle environment
Recently it was shown that an impurity exchanging orbital angular momentum
with a surrounding bath can be described in terms of the angulon quasiparticle
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095301 (2017)]. The angulon consists of a quantum rotor
dressed by a many-particle field of boson excitations, and can be formed out
of, for example, a molecule or a nonspherical atom in superfluid helium, or out
of an electron coupled to lattice phonons or a Bose condensate. Here we develop
an approach to the angulon based on the path-integral formalism, which sets the
ground for a systematic, perturbative treatment of the angulon problem. The
resulting perturbation series can be interpreted in terms of Feynman diagrams,
from which, in turn, one can derive a set of diagrammatic rules. These rules
extend the machinery of the graphical theory of angular momentum - well known
from theoretical atomic spectroscopy - to the case where an environment with an
infinite number of degrees of freedom is present. In particular, we show that
each diagram can be interpreted as a 'skeleton', which enforces angular
momentum conservation, dressed by an additional many-body contribution. This
connection between the angulon theory and the graphical theory of angular
momentum is particularly important as it allows to systematically and
substantially simplify the analytical representation of each diagram. In order
to exemplify the technique, we calculate the 1- and 2-loop contributions to the
angulon self-energy, the spectral function, and the quasiparticle weight. The
diagrammatic theory we develop paves the way to investigate next-to-leading
order quantities in a more compact way compared to the variational approaches.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure
The Italian Corporate Network, 1952-1983: New Evidence Using the Interlocking Directorates Technique
The paper explores the structure of the Italian corporate network by focusing on the relationships between financial - banks, insurances and holdings - and industrial firms in Italy during the period 1952-83 through the analysis of the interlocks that existed between them. By an interlock is meant the link created between two firms when an induvidual belongs to the board of directors of both. The analysis is based on a database - Imita.db - containing data on over 130,000 directors of Italian joint stock companies for the years 1952, 1960, 1972 and 1983. After showing a descriptive statistics of the companies and the directors included in the database, the paper develops a network connectivity analysis of the system. This is integrated by a prosopographic study about the big linkers, defined as those directors cumulating the highest number of offices in each benchmark year. The paper confirms that the Italian corporate network maintained substantial peculiarities in the period investigated. In particular, it argues that interlocks played an important role in guaranteeing the stability of the positions of control of the major private companies and their connections with State-owned enterprises. In 1952 and 1960, the system, centred on the larger electrical companies, showed the highest degree of cohesion. That centre dissolved after the nationalisation of the electricity industry in 1962 and was replaced by a less strong and cohesive one, hinged on banks, insurances and the major finance companies. At the beginning of the 1980s the centre appeared to have been further reshaped with the marginalisation of state-owned enterprises.Italy; Corporate Network; Interlocking directorates; Network Analysis; Big Linkers; Private and State-owned Enterprises
Measurement of jet shapes in top-quark pair events at âs =7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
A measurement of jet shapes in top-quark pair events using 1.8 fbâ1 of âs=7 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. Samples of top-quark pair events are selected in both the single-lepton and dilepton final states. The differential and integrated shapes of the jets initiated by bottom-quarks from the top-quark decays are compared with those of the jets originated by light-quarks from the hadronic W-boson decays WâqqÂŻâČ in the single-lepton channel. The light-quark jets are found to have a narrower distribution of the momentum flow inside the jet area than b-quark jets
Ultracold Dipolar Gases in Optical Lattices
This tutorial is a theoretical work, in which we study the physics of
ultra-cold dipolar bosonic gases in optical lattices. Such gases consist of
bosonic atoms or molecules that interact via dipolar forces, and that are
cooled below the quantum degeneracy temperature, typically in the nK range.
When such a degenerate quantum gas is loaded into an optical lattice produced
by standing waves of laser light, new kinds of physical phenomena occur. These
systems realize then extended Hubbard-type models, and can be brought to a
strongly correlated regime. The physical properties of such gases, dominated by
the long-range, anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions, are discussed using the
mean-field approximations, and exact Quantum Monte Carlo techniques (the Worm
algorithm).Comment: 56 pages, 26 figure
Contact in the Unitary Fermi Gas across the Superfluid Phase Transition
A quantity known as the contact is a fundamental thermodynamic property of quantum many-body systems with short-range interactions. Determination of the temperature dependence of the contact for the unitary Fermi gas of infinite scattering length has been a major challenge, with different calculations yielding qualitatively different results. Here we use finite-temperature auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFMC) methods on the lattice within the canonical ensemble to calculate the temperature dependence of the contact for the homogeneous spin-balanced unitary Fermi gas. We extrapolate to the continuum limit for 40, 66, and 114 particles, eliminating systematic errors due to finite-range effects. We observe a dramatic decrease in the contact as the superfluid critical temperature is approached from below, followed by a gradual weak decrease as the temperature increases in the normal phase. Our theoretical results are in excellent agreement with the most recent precision ultracold atomic gas experiments. We also present results for the energy as a function of temperature in the continuum limit
Valuation of Economic Risk of Investment Project
CĂlem diplomovĂ© prĂĄce je pĆiblĂĆŸenĂ problematiky rizikovosti investiÄnĂch projektĆŻ a ĆeĆĄenĂ situacĂ zohledĆujĂcĂch tato rizika. V prĂĄci jsou popsĂĄny druhy rizika, jejich klasifikace, metody jeho urÄovĂĄnĂ, jeho analĂœzy a nĂĄslednĂ©ho zpracovĂĄnĂ. V praktickĂ© ÄĂĄsti bude nĂĄzornÄ ukĂĄzĂĄno, jak mĆŻĆŸe vliv nÄkterĂœch rizik dopadat na projekt a jeho penÄĆŸnĂ toky. PĆedmÄtem nĂĄzornĂ© aplikace je projekt Aquaparku ve mÄstÄ UherskĂ© HradiĆĄtÄ.The goal of the masterÂŽs thesis is to approach the isue of risk of investment projects and to deal with situations regarding these risks. The thesis describe the types of risks, their classification, methods of their identification, analysis, and their subsequent processing. In the practical part there will be clearly shown how the influence of some risks can affect the project and its cash flows. The subject of illustrative application is the Aquapark project in UherskĂ© HradiĆĄtÄ.
Community detection in sparse networks via Grothendieck's inequality
We present a simple and flexible method to prove consistency of semidefinite
optimization problems on random graphs. The method is based on Grothendieck's
inequality. Unlike the previous uses of this inequality that lead to constant
relative accuracy, we achieve any given relative accuracy by leveraging
randomness. We illustrate the method with the problem of community detection in
sparse networks, those with bounded average degrees. We demonstrate that even
in this regime, various simple and natural semidefinite programs can be used to
recover the community structure up to an arbitrarily small fraction of
misclassified vertices. The method is general; it can be applied to a variety
of stochastic models of networks and semidefinite programs.Comment: This is the final version, incorporating the referee's comment
A Cluster-Based Computational Thermodynamics Framework with Intrinsic Chemical Short-Range Order: Part I. Configurational Contribution
Exploiting chemical short-range order (SRO) is a promising new avenue for
manipulating the properties of alloys. However, existing modeling frameworks
are not sufficient to understand and predict SRO in multicomponent (>3) alloys.
In this work, we developed a hybrid computational thermodynamics framework by
marrying unique advantages from CVM (Cluster Variation Method) and CALPHAD
(CALculation of PHAse Diagram) method through incorporating chemical SRO into
CALPHAD with a novel cluster-based solution model. The key is to use the
Fowler-Yang-Li transform to decompose the cumbersome cluster chemical
potentials in CVM into fewer site chemical potentials of the basis cluster,
thereby considerably reducing the number of variables that must be minimized
for multicomponent systems. The new framework puts more physics, primarily
intrinsic SRO, into CALPHAD, while maintaining its practicality and efficiency.
It leverages statistical mechanics to yield a more physical description of
configurational entropy and opens the door to cluster-based CALPHAD database
development. The application of this newly proposed model in the prototype FCC
AB system demonstrated that this model can correctly capture the essential
features of the phase diagram and thermodynamic properties. The hybrid
CVM-CALPHAD framework represents a new methodology for thermodynamic modeling
that enables atomic-scale order to be exploited as a dimension for materials
design, which potentially leads to novel complex concentrated alloys. It
achieves a balance between the accuracy and computational cost for modeling
multicomponent alloys with the intrinsic SRO in the context of CALPHAD
Measurement of jet shapes in top-quark pair events at sâ = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
A measurement of jet shapes in top-quark pair events using 1.8 fbâ1 of sâ=7 TeVs=7 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. Samples of top-quark pair events are selected in both the single-lepton and dilepton final states. The differential and integrated shapes of the jets initiated by bottom-quarks from the top-quark decays are compared with those of the jets originated by light-quarks from the hadronic W-boson decays WâqqÂŻâČWâqqÂŻâČ in the single-lepton channel. The light-quark jets are found to have a narrower distribution of the momentum flow inside the jet area than b-quark jets.Fil: Aad, G.. Albert Ludwigs UniversitĂ€t; AlemaniaFil: Abajyan, T.. Universitaet Bonn; AlemaniaFil: Abbott, B.. University of Oklahoma; Estados UnidosFil: Abdallah, J.. Universitat AutĂČnoma de Barcelona; EspañaFil: Abdel Khalek, S.. Universite Paris Sud; FranciaFil: Alonso, Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Anduaga, Xabier Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Dova, Maria Teresa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: GonzĂĄlez Silva, MarĂa Laura. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Otero y Garzon, Gustavo Javier. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Piegaia, Ricardo Nestor. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Romeo, Gaston Leonardo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FĂsica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Tripiana, Martin Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Centro CientĂfico TecnolĂłgico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de FĂsica La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Zieminska, D.. Indiana University; Estados UnidosFil: Zimin, N. I.. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; RusiaFil: Zimmermann, C.. UniversitĂ€t Mainz; AlemaniaFil: Zimmermann, R.. Universitaet Bonn; AlemaniaFil: Zimmermann, S.. Universitaet Bonn; AlemaniaFil: Zimmermann, S.. Albert Ludwigs UniversitĂ€t; AlemaniaFil: Zinonos, Z.. UniversitĂ degli Studi di Pisa; ItaliaFil: Ziolkowski, M.. UniversitĂ€t Siegen; AlemaniaFil: Zitoun, R.. UniversitĂ© de Savoie; FranciaFil: ĆœivkoviÄ, L.. Columbia University; Estados UnidosFil: Zmouchko, V. V.. State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics; RusiaFil: Zobernig, G.. University of Wisconsin; Estados UnidosFil: Zoccoli, A.. UniversitĂ di Bologna; ItaliaFil: zur Nedden, M.. Humboldt University; AlemaniaFil: Zutshi, V.. Northern Illinois University; Estados UnidosFil: Zwalinski, L.. Cern - European Organization For Nuclear Research; Suiz
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