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Topological quantization and degeneracy in Josephson-junction arrays
We consider the conductivity quantization in two-dimensional arrays of
mesoscopic Josephson junctions, and examine the associated degeneracy in
various regimes of the system. The filling factor of the system may be
controlled by the gate voltage as well as the magnetic field, and its
appropriate values for quantization is obtained by employing the Jain hierarchy
scheme both in the charge description and in the vortex description. The
duality between the two descriptions then suggests the possibility that the
system undergoes a change in degeneracy while the quantized conductivity
remains fixed.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev.
Hall effect and geometric phases in Josephson junction arrays
Since effectively the local contact vortex velocity dependent part of the Magnus force in a Josephson junction array is zero in the classical limit, we predict zero classical Hall effect. In the quantum limit because of the geometric phases due to the finite superfluid density at superconductor grains, rich and complex Hall effect is found in this quantum regime due to the Thouless-Kohmoto-Nightingale-den-Nijs effect
Optical conductivity in the normal state fullerene superconductors
We calculate the optical conductivity, , in the normal state
fullerene superconductors by self-consistently including the impurity
scatterings, the electron-phonon and electron-electron Coulomb interactions.
The finite bandwidth of the fullerenes is explicitely considered, and the
vertex corection is included Nambu in calculating the renormalized
Green's function. is obtained by calculating the
current-current correlation function with the renormalized Green's function in
the Matsubara frequency and then performing analytic continuation to the real
frequency at finite temperature. The Drude weight in is
strongly suppressed due to the interactions and transfered to the mid-infrared
region around and above 0.06 eV which is somewhat less pronounced and much
broader compared with the expermental observation by DeGiorgi .Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Physical Review B, July 1
Comment on "Ising model on a small world network"
In the recent study of the Ising model on a small-world network by A.
P\c{e}kalski [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 64}, 057104 (2001)], a surprisingly small value
of the critical exponent has been obtained for the
temperature dependence of the magnetization. We perform extensive Monte Carlo
simulations of the same model and conclude, via the standard finite-size
scaling of various quantities,that the phase transition in the model is of the
mean-field nature, in contrast to the work by A. P\c{e}kalski but in accord
with other existing studies.Comment: to be published in PR
The Neutralino Sector of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) includes a Higgs
iso-singlet superfield in addition to the two Higgs doublet superfields of the
minimal extension. If the Higgs fields remain weakly coupled up to the GUT
scale, as naturally motivated by the concept of supersymmetry, the mixing
between singlet and doublet fields is small and can be treated perturbatively.
The mass spectrum and mixing matrix of the neutralino sector can be analyzed
analytically and the structure of this 5-state system is under good theoretical
control. We also determine decay modes and production channels in sfermion
cascade decays to these particles at the LHC and pair production in e+e-
colliders.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figure
Measuring the Spin of the Higgs Boson
By studying the threshold dependence of the excitation curve and the angular
distribution in Higgs-strahlung at e+e- colliders, e+e- -> HZ, the spin of the
Higgs boson in the Standard Model and related extensions can be determined
unambiguously in a model-independent way.Comment: 10 pages, 1 Postscript figure, sign typo correcte
Spin Analysis of Supersymmetric Particles
The spin of supersymmetric particles can be determined at colliders
unambiguously. This is demonstrated for a characteristic set of non-colored
supersymmetric particles -- smuons, selectrons, and charginos/neutralinos. The
analysis is based on the threshold behavior of the excitation curves for pair
production in collisions, the angular distribution in the production
process and decay angular distributions. In the first step we present the
observables in the helicity formalism for the supersymmetric particles.
Subsequently we confront the results with corresponding analyses of
Kaluza-Klein particles in theories of universal extra space dimensions which
behave distinctly different from supersymmetric theories. It is shown in the
third step that a set of observables can be designed which signal the spin of
supersymmetric particles unambiguously without any model assumptions. Finally
in the fourth step it is demonstrated that the determination of the spin of
supersymmetric particles can be performed experimentally in practice at an
collider.Comment: 39 pages, 14 figure
Separable and non-separable multi-field inflation and large non-Gaussianity
In this paper we provide a general framework based on formalism to
estimate the cosmological observables pertaining to the cosmic microwave
background radiation for non-separable potentials, and for generic \emph{end of
inflation} boundary conditions. We provide analytical and numerical solutions
to the relevant observables by decomposing the cosmological perturbations along
the curvature and the isocurvature directions, \emph{instead of adiabatic and
entropy directions}. We then study under what conditions large bi-spectrum and
tri-spectrum can be generated through phase transition which ends inflation. In
an illustrative example, we show that large and
can be obtained for the case of separable and
non-separable inflationary potentials.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figure
Conductance of tubular nanowires with disorder
We calculate the conductance of tubular-shaped nanowires having many
potential scatterers at random positions. Our approach is based on the
scattering matrix formalism and our results analyzed within the scaling theory
of disordered conductors. When increasing the energy the conductance for a big
enough number of impurities in the tube manifests a systematic evolution from
the localized to the metallic regimes. Nevertheless, a conspicuous drop in
conductance is predicted whenever a new transverse channel is open. Comparison
with the semiclassical calculation leading to purely ohmic behavior is made.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
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