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Nonplanar integrability at two loops
In this article we compute the action of the two loop dilatation operator on
restricted Schur polynomials that belong to the su(2) sector, in the displaced
corners approximation. In this non-planar large N limit, operators that
diagonalize the one loop dilatation operator are not corrected at two loops.
The resulting spectrum of anomalous dimensions is related to a set of decoupled
harmonic oscillators, indicating integrability in this sector of the theory at
two loops. The anomalous dimensions are a non-trivial function of the 't Hooft
coupling, with a spectrum that is continuous and starting at zero at large N,
but discrete at finite N.Comment: version to appear in JHE
Reflection of light from a disordered medium backed by a phase-conjugating mirror
This is a theoretical study of the interplay of optical phase-conjugation and
multiple scattering. We calculate the intensity of light reflected by a
phase-conjugating mirror when it is placed behind a disordered medium. We
compare the results of a fully phase-coherent theory with those from the theory
of radiative transfer. Both methods are equivalent if the dwell time
\tau_{dwell} of a photon in the disordered medium is much larger than the
inverse of the frequency shift 2\Delta\omega acquired at the phase-conjugating
mirror. When \tau_{dwell} \Delta\omega < 1, in contrast, phase coherence
drastically affects the reflected intensity. In particular, a minimum in the
dependence of the reflectance on the disorder strength disappears when
\Delta\omega is reduced below 1/\tau_{dwell}. The analogies and differences
with Andreev reflection of electrons at the interface between a normal metal
and a superconductor are discussed.Comment: 27 pages RevTeX with 11 figures included with psfi
Glueball calculations in large-N_c gauge theory
We use the light-front Hamiltonian of transverse lattice gauge theory to
compute from first principles the glueball spectrum and light-front
wavefunctions in the leading order of the 1/N_c colour expansion. We find
0^{++}, 2^{++}, and 1^{+-} glueballs having masses consistent with N_c=3 data
available from Euclidean lattice path integral methods. The wavefunctions
exhibit a light-front constituent gluon structure.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, uses macro boxedeps.tex, minor corrections in
revised versio
Avaliação das características de ácido húmico em solos sob adição de lodo de esgoto.
bitstream/CNPDIA/10275/1/PA23_98.pd
The self-energy of a charged particle in the presence of a topological defect distribution
In this work we study a charged particle in the presence of both a continuous
distribution of disclinations and a continuous distribution of edge
dislocations in the framework of the geometrical theory of defects. We obtain
the self-energy for a single charge both in the internal and external regions
of either distribution. For both distributions the result outside the defect
distribution is the self-energy that a single charge experiments in the
presence of a single defect.Comment: 12 pages, Revtex4, two figures,to appear in Int. Joun. Mod. Phys.
Theory of the Diamagnetism Above the Critical Temperature for Cuprates
Recently experiments on high critical temperature superconductors has shown
that the doping levels and the superconducting gap are usually not uniform
properties but strongly dependent on their positions inside a given sample.
Local superconducting regions develop at the pseudogap temperature () and
upon cooling, grow continuously. As one of the consequences a large diamagnetic
signal above the critical temperature () has been measured by different
groups. Here we apply a critical-state model for the magnetic response to the
local superconducting domains between and and show that the
resulting diamagnetic signal is in agreement with the experimental results.Comment: published versio
Far-ultraviolet imaging of the Hubble Deep Field-North: Star formation in normal galaxies at z < 1
We present far-ultraviolet (FUV) imaging of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N) taken with the Solar Blind Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS SBC) and the FUV MAMA detector of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The full WFPC2 deep field has been observed at 1600 Å. We detect 134 galaxies and one star down to a limit of FUV_(AB) ~ 29. All sources have counterparts in the WFPC2 image. Redshifts (spectroscopic or photometric) for the detected sources are in the range 0 < z < 1. We find that the FUV galaxy number counts are higher than those reported by GALEX, which we attribute at least in part to cosmic variance in the small HDF-N field of view. Six of the 13 Chandra sources at z < 0.85 in the HDF-N are detected in the FUV, and those are consistent with starbursts rather than active galactic nuclei. Cross-correlating with Spitzer sources in the field, we find that the FUV detections show general agreement with the expected L_(IR)/L_(UV) versus β relationship. We infer star formation rates (SFRs), corrected for extinction using the UV slope, and find a median value of 0.3 M_☉ yr^(-1) for FUV-detected galaxies, with 75% of detected sources having SFR < 1 M_☉ yr^(-1). Examining the morphological distribution of sources, we find that about half of all FUV-detected sources are identified as spiral galaxies. Half of morphologically selected spheroid galaxies at z < 0.85 are detected in the FUV, suggesting that such sources have had significant ongoing star formation in the epoch since z ~ 1
Electrostatic self-force in (2+1)-dimensional cosmological gravity
Point sources in (2+1)-dimensional gravity are conical singularities that
modify the global curvature of the space giving rise to self-interaction
effects on classical fields. In this work we study the electrostatic
self-interaction of a point charge in the presence of point masses in
(2+1)-dimensional gravity with a cosmological constant.Comment: 9 pages, Late
Beyond the Planar Limit in ABJM
In this article we consider gauge theories with a U(N)X U(N) gauge group. We
provide, for the first time, a complete set of operators built from scalar
fields that are in the bi fundamental of the two groups. Our operators
diagonalize the two point function of the free field theory at all orders in
1/N. We then use this basis to investigate non-planar anomalous dimensions in
the ABJM theory. We show that the dilatation operator reduces to a set of
decoupled harmonic oscillators, signaling integrability in a nonplanar large N
limit.Comment: v2: minor revisison
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