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Superspace Formulation for the BRST Quantization of the Chiral Schwinger Model
It has recently been shown that the Field Antifield quantization of anomalous
irreducible gauge theories with closed algebra can be represented in a BRST
superspace where the quantum action at one loop order, including the Wess
Zumino term, and the anomalies show up as components of the same superfield. We
show here how the Chiral Schwinger model can be represented in this
formulation.Comment: 11 pages, Late
Entangling power of baker's map: Role of symmetries
The quantum baker map possesses two symmetries: a canonical "spatial"
symmetry, and a time-reversal symmetry. We show that, even when these features
are taken into account, the asymptotic entangling power of the baker's map does
not always agree with the predictions of random matrix theory. We have verified
that the dimension of the Hilbert space is the crucial parameter which
determines whether the entangling properties of the baker are universal or not.
For power-of-two dimensions, i.e., qubit systems, an anomalous entangling power
is observed; otherwise the behavior of the baker is consistent with random
matrix theories. We also derive a general formula that relates the asymptotic
entangling power of an arbitrary unitary with properties of its reduced
eigenvectors.Comment: 5 page
On the absorption and production cross sections of and
We have computed the isospin and spin averaged cross sections of the
processes and , which are crucial in the
determination of the abundances of and in heavy ion collisions.
Improving previous calculations, we have considered several mechanisms which
were missing, such as the exchange of axial and vector resonances (,
, , etc...) and also other processes such as and . We find that
some of these mechanisms give important contributions to the cross section. Our
results also suggest that, in a hadron gas, production might be more
important than its absorption
production and absorption in a hot hadron gas
We calculate the time evolution of the abundance in the hot hadron
gas produced in the late stage of heavy ion collisions. We use effective field
Lagrangians to obtain the production and dissociation cross sections of
. In this evaluation we include diagrams involving the anomalous
couplings and and also the
couplings of the with charged and mesons. With these new
terms the interaction cross sections are much larger than those found
in previous works. Using these cross sections as input in rate equations, we
conclude that during the expansion and cooling of the hadronic gas, the number
of , originally produced at the end of the mixed QGP/hadron gas phase,
is reduced by a factor of 4.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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