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    Comment on "Is There a "Most Perfect Fluid" Consistent with Quantum Field Theory?"

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    This is a comment on hep-th/0702136Comment: 1 page, comment on hep-th/070213

    Turbulent Decay of a Passive Scalar in Batchelor Limit: Exact Results from a Quantum-Mechanical Approach

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    We show that the decay of a passive scalar θ\theta advected by a random incompressible flow with zero correlation time in Batchelor limit can be mapped exactly to a certain quantum-mechanical system with a finite number of degrees of freedom. The Schroedinger equation is derived and its solution is analyzed for the case when at the beginning the scalar has Gaussian statistics with correlation function of the form exy2e^{-|x-y|^2}. Any equal-time correlation function of the scalar can be expressed via the solution to the Schroedinger equation in a closed algebraic form. We find that the scalar is intermittent during its decay and the average of θα|\theta|^\alpha (assuming zero mean value of θ\theta) falls as eγαDte^{-\gamma_\alpha Dt} at large tt, where DD is a parameter of the flow, γα=α(6α)/4\gamma_\alpha=\alpha(6-\alpha)/4 for 0<α<30<\alpha<3, and γα=9/4\gamma_\alpha=9/4 for α3\alpha \geq 3, independent of α\alpha.Comment: 7 pages, REVTeX. Minor changes, references updated to match the published versio

    Does parton saturation at high density explain hadron multiplicities at LHC?

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    An addendum to our previous papers in Phys. Lett. B539 (2002) 46 and Phys. Lett. B502 (2001) 51, contributed to the CERN meeting "First data from the LHC heavy ion run", March 4, 2011Comment: 6 pages, contribution to the CERN meeting "First data from the LHC heavy ion run", March 4, 201

    Hydrodynamics of relativisic systems with broken continuous symmetries

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    We show how hydrodynamics of relativistic system with broken continuous symmetry can be constructed using the Poisson bracket technique. We illustrate the method on the example of relativistic superfluids.Comment: 3 pages; talk at DPF2000, Columbus, Ohio, August 9-12, 200
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