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    Effects of Bose-Einstein Condensation on forces among bodies sitting in a boson heat bath

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    We explore the consequences of Bose-Einstein condensation on two-scalar-exchange mediated forces among bodies that sit in a boson gas. We find that below the condensation temperature the range of the forces becomes infinite while it is finite at temperatures above condensation.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure

    Long range neutrino forces in the cosmic relic neutrino background

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    Neutrinos mediate long range forces among macroscopic bodies in vacuum. When the bodies are placed in the neutrino cosmic background, these forces are modified. Indeed, at distances long compared to the scale T1T^{-1}, the relic neutrinos completely screen off the 2-neutrino exchange force, whereas for small distances the interaction remains unaffected.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure

    Exact Kohn-Sham eigenstates versus quasiparticles in simple models of strongly correlated electrons

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    We present analytic expressions for the exact density functional and Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian of simple tight-binding models of correlated electrons. These are the single- and double-site versions of the Anderson, Hubbard and spinless fermion models. The exact exchange and correlation potentials are fully non-local. The analytic expressions allow to compare the Kohn-Sham eigenstates of exact density functional theory with the many-body quasi-particle states of these correlated-electron systems. The exact Kohn-Sham spectrum describes correctly many of the non-trivial features of the many-body quasi-particle spectrum, as for example the precursors of the Kondo peak. However, we find that some pieces of the quasi-particle spectrum are missing because the many-body phase-space for electron and hole excitations is richer

    Long Range Forces from Pseudoscalar Exchange

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    Using dispersion theoretic techniques, we consider coherent long range forces arising from double pseudoscalar exchange among fermions. We find that Yukawa type coupling leads to 1/r31/r^3 spin independent attractive potentials whereas derivative coupling renders 1/r51/r^5 spin independent repulsive potentials.Comment: 27 pages, REVTeX, 3 figures included using epsfi

    Color Magnetic Flux Tubes in Dense QCD

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    QCD is expected to be in the color-flavor locking phase in high baryon density, which exhibits color superconductivity. The most fundamental topological objects in the color superconductor are non-Abelian vortices which are topologically stable color magnetic flux tubes. We present numerical solutions of the color magnetic flux tube for diverse choices of the coupling constants. We also analytically study its asymptotic profiles and find that they are different from the case of usual superconductors. We propose the width of color magnetic fluxes and find that it is larger than naive expectation of the Compton wave length of the massive gluon when the gluon mass is larger than the scalar mass.Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added, minor changes; v3: published versio

    Magnetic Color Flavor Locking Phase in High Density QCD

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    We investigate the effects of an external magnetic field in the gap structure of a color superconductor with three massless quark flavors. Using an effective theory with four-fermion interactions, inspired by one-gluon exchange, we show that the long-range component B~\widetilde{B} of the external magnetic field that penetrates the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase modifies its gap structure, producing a new phase of lower symmetry. A main outcome of our study is that the B~\widetilde{B} field tends to strengthen the gaps formed by Q~\widetilde{Q}-charged and Q~\widetilde{Q}-neutral quarks that coupled among themselves through tree-level vertices. These gaps are enhanced by the field-dependent density of states of the Q~\widetilde{Q}-charged quarks on the Fermi surface. Our considerations are relevant for the study of highly magnetized compact stars.Comment: version to be published in PR
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