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Chiral symmetry breaking in a uniform external magnetic field II. Symmetry restoration at high temperatures and chemical potentials
Chiral symmetry is dynamically broken in quenched, ladder QED at weak gauge
couplings when an external magnetic field is present. In this paper, we show
that chiral symmetry is restored above a critical chemical potential and the
corresponding phase transition is of first order. In contrast, the chiral
symmetry restoration at high temperatures (and at zero chemical potential) is a
second order phase transition.Comment: Latex; 12 pages; 8 postscript figures include
Random access quantum information processors
Qubit connectivity is an important property of a quantum processor, with an
ideal processor having random access -- the ability of arbitrary qubit pairs to
interact directly. Here, we implement a random access superconducting quantum
information processor, demonstrating universal operations on a nine-bit quantum
memory, with a single transmon serving as the central processor. The quantum
memory uses the eigenmodes of a linear array of coupled superconducting
resonators. The memory bits are superpositions of vacuum and single-photon
states, controlled by a single superconducting transmon coupled to the edge of
the array. We selectively stimulate single-photon vacuum Rabi oscillations
between the transmon and individual eigenmodes through parametric flux
modulation of the transmon frequency, producing sidebands resonant with the
modes. Utilizing these oscillations for state transfer, we perform a universal
set of single- and two-qubit gates between arbitrary pairs of modes, using only
the charge and flux bias of the transmon. Further, we prepare multimode
entangled Bell and GHZ states of arbitrary modes. The fast and flexible
control, achieved with efficient use of cryogenic resources and control
electronics, in a scalable architecture compatible with state-of-the-art
quantum memories is promising for quantum computation and simulation.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, supplementary information ancillary file, 21
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Accurate description of the optical response of a multilayered spherical system in the long wavelength approximation
The optical response of a multilayered spherical system of unlimited number of layers (a âmatryoshkaâ) in the long wavelength limit can be accounted for from the knowledge of the static multipole polarizability of the system to first-order accuracy. However, for systems of ultrasmall dimensions or systems with sizes not-too-small compared to the wavelength, this ordinary quasistatic long wavelength approximation (LWA) becomes inaccurate. Here we introduce two significant modifications of the LWA for such a nanomatryoshka in each of the two limits: the nonlocal optical response for ultrasmall systems (\u3c10 \u3enm), and the âfinite-wavelength correctionsâ for systems âŒ100ânm. This is accomplished by employing the previous work for a single-layer shell, in combination with a certain effective-medium approach formulated recently in the literature. Numerical calculations for the extinction cross sections for such a system of different dimensions are provided as illustrations for these effects. This formulation thus provides significant improvements on the ordinary LWA, yielding enough accuracy for the description of the optical response of these nanoshell systems over an appreciable range of sizes, without resorting to more involved quantum mechanical or fully electrodynamic calculations
Predicting phase transition pressure in solids: a semiclassical possibility
This is a short review of the physical ideas,algorithm for calculations and
some results of a semiclassical theory of the behaviour of materials under high
pressure,proposed by P.Savic and R.Kasanin.The theory has found applications
from DAC experiments to studies of planetary interior structure.Comment: PDF file,no figure
Electron Mass Operator in a Strong Magnetic Field and Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking
The electron mass operator in a strong magnetic field is calculated. The
contribution of higher Landau levels of virtual electrons, along with the
ground Landau level, is shown to be essential in the leading log approximation.
The effect of the electron dynamical mass generation by a magnetic field is
investigated. In a model with N charged fermions, it is shown that some
critical number N_{cr} exists for any value of the electromagnetic coupling
constant alpha, such that the fermion dynamical mass is generated with a
doublet splitting for N < N_{cr}, and the dynamical mass does not arise at all
for N > N_{cr}, thus leaving the chiral symmetry unbroken.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX4, 3 figure
Dense and accurate motion and strain estimation in high resolution speckle images using an image-adaptive approach
Digital image processing methods represent a viable and well acknowledged alternative to strain gauges and interferometric techniques for determining full-field displacements and strains in materials under stress. This paper presents an image adaptive technique for dense motion and strain estimation using high-resolution speckle images that show the analyzed material in its original and deformed states. The algorithm starts by dividing the speckle image showing the original state into irregular cells taking into consideration both spatial and gradient image information present. Subsequently the Newton-Raphson digital image correlation technique is applied to calculate the corresponding motion for each cell. Adaptive spatial regularization in the form of the Geman-McClure robust spatial estimator is employed to increase the spatial consistency of the motion components of a cell with respect to the components of neighbouring cells. To obtain the final strain information, local least-squares fitting using a linear displacement model is performed on the horizontal and vertical displacement fields. To evaluate the presented image partitioning and strain estimation techniques two numerical and two real experiments are employed. The numerical experiments simulate the deformation of a specimen with constant strain across the surface as well as small rigid-body rotations present while real experiments consist specimens that undergo uniaxial stress. The results indicate very good accuracy of the recovered strains as well as better rotation insensitivity compared to classical techniques
Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QED in a Magnetic Field: Toward Exact Results
We describe a (first, to the best of our knowledge) essentially soluble
example of dynamical symmetry breaking phenomenon in a 3+1 dimensional gauge
theory without fundamental scalar fields: QED in a constant magnetic field.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX. Final version accepted for publication in
Physical Review Letter
Antibiotic resistance gene sharing networks and the effect of dietary nutritional content on the canine and feline gut resistome
As one of the most densely populated microbial communities on Earth, the gut microbiota serves as an important reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), referred to as the gut resistome. Here, we investigated the association of dietary nutritional content with gut ARG diversity and composition, using publicly available shotgun metagenomic sequence data generated from canine and feline fecal samples. Also, based on network theory, we explored ARG-sharing patterns between gut bacterial genera by identifying the linkage structure between metagenomic assemblies and their functional genes obtained from the same data
Theory of Light Emission in Sonoluminescence as Thermal Radiation
Based on the model proposed by Hilgenfeldt {\it at al.} [Nature {\bf 398},
401 (1999)], we present here a comprehensive theory of thermal radiation in
single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL). We first invoke the generalized
Kirchhoff's law to obtain the thermal emissivity from the absorption
cross-section of a multilayered sphere (MLS). A sonoluminescing bubble, whose
internal structure is determined from hydrodynamic simulations, is then
modelled as a MLS and in turn the thermal radiation is evaluated. Numerical
results obtained from simulations for argon bubbles show that our theory
successfully captures the major features observed in SBSL experiments.Comment: 17 pages, 20 figure
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