25,133 research outputs found
Quantum Fermion Hair
It is shown that the Dirac operator in the background of a magnetic
%Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole and a Euclidean vortex possesses normalizable
zero modes in theories containing superconducting cosmic strings. One
consequence of these zero modes is the presence of a fermion condensate around
magnetically charged black holes which violates global quantum numbers.Comment: 16pp (harvmac (l)) and 2 figs.(not included
Double-averaged velocity profiles over fixed dune shapes
Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Dilution jet mixing program, phase 3
The main objectives for the NASA Jet Mixing Phase 3 program were: extension of the data base on the mixing of single sided rows of jets in a confined cross flow to discrete slots, including streamlined, bluff, and angled injections; quantification of the effects of geometrical and flow parameters on penetration and mixing of multiple rows of jets into a confined flow; investigation of in-line, staggered, and dissimilar hole configurations; and development of empirical correlations for predicting temperature distributions for discrete slots and multiple rows of dilution holes
Diagrammatic perturbation theory and the pseudogap
We study a model of quasiparticles on a two-dimensional square lattice
coupled to Gaussian distributed dynamical fields. The model describes
quasiparticles coupled to spin or charge fluctuations and is solved by a Monte
Carlo sampling of the molecular field distributions. The non-perturbative
solution is compared to various approximations based on diagrammatic
perturbation theory. When the molecular field correlations are sufficiently
weak, the diagrammatic calculations capture the qualitative aspects of the
quasiparticle spectrum. For a range of model parameters near the magnetic
boundary, we find that the quasiparticle spectrum is qualitatively different
from that of a Fermi liquid in that it shows a double peak structure, and that
the diagrammatic approximations we consider fail to reproduce, even
qualitatively, the results of the Monte Carlo calculations. This suggests that
the pseudogap induced by a coupling to antiferromagnetic fluctuations and the
spin-splitting of the quasiparticle peak induced by a coupling to ferromagnetic
spin-fluctuations lie beyond diagrammatic perturbation theory
A Characterisation of the Weylian Structure of Space-Time by Means of Low Velocity Tests
The compatibility axiom in Ehlers, Pirani and Schild's (EPS) constructive
axiomatics of the space-time geometry that uses light rays and freely falling
particles with high velocity, is replaced by several constructions with low
velocity particles only. For that purpose we describe in a space-time with a
conformal structure and an arbitrary path structure the radial acceleration, a
Coriolis acceleration and the zig-zag construction. Each of these quantities
give effects whose requirement to vanish can be taken as alternative version of
the compatibility axiom of EPS. The procedural advantage lies in the fact, that
one can make null-experiments and that one only needs low velocity particles to
test the compatibility axiom. We show in addition that Perlick's standard clock
can exist in a Weyl space only.Comment: to appear in Gen.Rel.Gra
Forecasting Equicorrelation
We study the out-of-sample forecasting performance of several time-series models of equicorrelation, which is the average pairwise correlation between a number of assets. Building on the existing Dynamic Conditional Correlation and Linear Dynamic Equicorrelation models, we propose a model that uses proxies for equicorrelation based on high-frequency intraday data, and the level of equicorrelation implied by options prices. Using state-of-the-art statistical evaluation technology, we find that the use of both realized and implied equicorrelations outperform models that use daily data alone. However, the out-of-sample forecasting benefits of implied equicorrelation disappear when used in conjunction with the realized measures.Equicorrelation, Implied Correlation, Multivariate GARCH, DCC
Naturalness of the Coleman-Glashow Mass Relation in the 1/N_c Expansion: an Update
A new measurement of the Xi^0 mass verifies the accuracy of the
Coleman-Glashow relation at the level predicted by the 1/N_c expansion. Values
for other baryon isospin mass splittings are updated, and continue to agree
with the 1/N_c hierarchy.Comment: 6 pages, revte
High Temperature Superfluid and Feshbach Resonance
We study an effective field theory describing cold fermionic atoms near a
Feshbach resonance. The theory gives a unique description of the dynamics in
the limit that the energy of the Feshbach resonance is tuned to be twice that
of the Fermi surface. We show that in this limit the zero temperature
superfluid condensate is of order the Fermi energy, and obtain a critical
temperature Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, RevTe
Vacuum Decay in Theories with Symmetry Breaking by Radiative Corrections
The standard bounce formalism for calculating the decay rate of a metastable
vacuum cannot be applied to theories in which the symmetry breaking is due to
radiative corrections, because in such theories the tree-level action has no
bounce solutions. In this paper I derive a modified formalism to deal with such
cases. As in the usual case, the bubble nucleation rate may be written in the
form . To leading approximation, is the bounce action obtained by
replacing the tree-level potential by the leading one-loop approximation to the
effective potential, in agreement with the generally adopted {\it ad hoc}
remedy. The next correction to (which is proportional to an inverse power
of a small coupling) is given in terms of the next-to-leading term in the
effective potential and the leading correction to the two-derivative term in
the effective action. The corrections beyond these (which may be included in
the prefactor) do not have simple expressions in terms of the effective
potential and the other functions in the effective action. In particular, the
scalar-loop terms which give an imaginary part to the effective potential do
not explicitly appear; the corresponding effects are included in a functional
determinant which gives a manifestly real result for the nucleation rate.Comment: 39 pages, CU-TP-57
- âŠ