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Photoelectron spectra of fluorine substituted diazanaphthalenes: “Even cases”
The high resolution He 584 Ă… photoelectron spectra of three diazanaphthalenes and some of their fluorine derivatives are presented. The qualitative model that is used frequently in the discussion of lone-pair level splittings is examined
Optical spectroscopy of plasmons and excitons in cuprate superconductors
An introduction is given to collective modes in layered, high Tc
superconductors. An experimental demonstration is treated of the mechanism
proposed by Anderson whereby photons travelling inside the superconductor
become massive, when the U(1) gauge symmetry is broken in the superconductor to
which the photons are coupled. Using the Ferrell-Tinkham sumrule the photon
mass is shown to have a simple relation to the spectral weight of the
condensate. Various forms of Josephson plasmons can exist in single-layer, and
bi-layecuprates. In the bi-layer cuprates a transverse optical plasma mode can
be observed as a peak in the c-axis optical conductivity. This mode appears as
a consequence of the existence of two different intrinsic Josephson couplings
between the CuO2 layers. It is strongly related to a collective oscillation
corresponding to small fluctuations of the relative phases of the two
condensates, which has been predicted in 1966 by A.J. Leggett for
superconductors with two bands of charge carriers. A description is given of
optical data of the high Tc cuprates demonstrating the presence of these and
similar collective modes.Comment: Article for a special issue of the Journal of Superconductivity
celebrating the 75th birthday of Michael Tinkham. Revtex4, 15 pages, 16
figures encapsulated postscrip
Hague Conference Conventions and the United States: A European View
From a European perspective, international cooperation in litigation does not primarily require the safeguarding of governmental interests, but the equitable balancing of the interests of plaintiffs and defendants. A European view of the role of US procedures in Hague Conference conventions is presented
Short-range spin- and pair-correlations: a variational wave-function
A many-body wavefuction is postulated, which is sufficiently general to
describe superconducting pair-correlations, and/or spin-correlations, which can
occur either as long-range order or as finite-range correlations. The proposed
wave-function appears to summarize some of the more relevant aspects of the
rich phase-diagram of the high-Tc cuprates. Some of the states represented by
this wavefunction are reviewed: For superconductivity in the background of
robust anti-ferromagnetism, the Cooper-pairs are shown to be a superposition of
spinquantum numbers S=0 and S=1. If the anti-ferromagnetism is weak, a
continuous super-symmetric rotation is identified connecting s-wave
superconductivity to anti-ferromagnetism.Comment: LaTeX, 11 pages, 3 figures in eps format references update
Electrodynamics from Noncommutative Geometry
Within the framework of Connes' noncommutative geometry, the notion of an
almost commutative manifold can be used to describe field theories on compact
Riemannian spin manifolds. The most notable example is the derivation of the
Standard Model of high energy physics from a suitably chosen almost commutative
manifold. In contrast to such a non-abelian gauge theory, it has long been
thought impossible to describe an abelian gauge theory within this framework.
The purpose of this paper is to improve on this point. We provide a simple
example of a commutative spectral triple based on the two-point space, and show
that it yields a U(1) gauge theory. Then, we slightly modify the spectral
triple such that we obtain the full classical theory of electrodynamics on a
curved background manifold.Comment: 16 page
Renormalization of gauge fields: A Hopf algebra approach
We study the Connes-Kreimer Hopf algebra of renormalization in the case of
gauge theories. We show that the Ward identities and the Slavnov-Taylor
identities (in the abelian and non-abelian case respectively) are compatible
with the Hopf algebra structure, in that they generate a Hopf ideal.
Consequently, the quotient Hopf algebra is well-defined and has those
identities built in. This provides a purely combinatorial and rigorous proof of
compatibility of the Slavnov-Taylor identities with renormalization.Comment: 24 pages; uses feynm
Renormalization of the spectral action for the Yang-Mills system
We establish renormalizability of the full spectral action for the Yang-Mills
system on a flat 4-dimensional background manifold. Interpreting the spectral
action as a higher-derivative gauge theory, we find that it behaves
unexpectedly well as far as renormalization is concerned. Namely, a power
counting argument implies that the spectral action is superrenormalizable. From
BRST-invariance of the one-loop effective action, we conclude that it is
actually renormalizable as a gauge theory.Comment: 6 pages; 4 figures; minor correction
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