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Instanton and Monopole in External Chromomagnetic Fields
We study properties of instanton and monopole in an external chromomagnetic
field. Generally, the 't Hooft ansatz is no longer a solution of the Yang-Mills
field equation in the presence of external fields. Therefore, we investigate a
stabilized instanton solution with minimal total Yang-Mills action in a
nontrivial topological sector. With this aim, we consider numerical
minimization of the action with respect to the global color orientation, the
anisotropic scale transformation and the local gauge-like transformation
starting from a simple superposed gauge field of the 't Hooft ansatz and the
external color field. Here, the external color field is, for simplicity, chosen
to be a constant Abelian magnetic field along a certain direction. Then, the
4-dimensional rotational symmetry O(4) of the instanton solution is reduced to
two 2-dimensional rotational symmetries due to the effect of
a homogeneous external field. In the space \mib{R}^{3} at fixed , we find
a quadrupole deformation of this instanton solution. In the presence of a
magnetic field , a prolate deformation occurs along the direction of
. Contrastingly, in the presence of an electric field an
oblate deformation occurs along the direction of . We further discuss
the local correlation between the instanton and the monopole in the external
field in the maximally Abelian gauge. The external field affects the appearance
of the monopole trajectory around the instanton. In fact, a monopole and
anti-monopole pair appears around the instanton center, and this monopole loop
seems to partially screen the external field.Comment: 15 pages,8 figure
Comparative study of ordered and disordered Y1-xSrxCoO3-d
We have succeeded in preparing A-site ordered- and disordered-Y1/4Sr3/4CoO3-d
with various oxygen deficiencies delta, and have made comparative study of
their structural and physical properties. In the A-site ordered structure,
oxygen vacancies order, and d = 0.34 sample shows a weak ferromagnetic
transition beyond 300 K. On the other hand, in the A-site disordered structure,
no oxygen vacancy ordering is observed, and d = 0.16 sample shows a
ferromagnetic metallic transition around 150 K. A-site disordering destroys the
orderings of oxygen-vacancies and orbitals, leading to the strong modification
of the electronic phases.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, proceeding of 52nd Mangetism and Magnetic
Materials Conference (MMM 2007), published in Journal of Applied Physic
Confinement Properties in the Multi-Instanton System
We investigate the confinement properties in the multi-instanton system,
where the size distribution is assumed to be for the large
instanton size . We find that the instanton vacuum gives the area law
behavior of the Wilson loop, which indicates existence of the linear confining
potential. In the multi-instanton system, the string tension increases
monotonously with the instanton density, and takes the standard value for the density . Thus, instantons
directly relate to color confinement properties.Comment: Talk presented by M. Fukushima at ``Lattice '97'', the International
Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 22 - 26 July 1997, in Edinburgh, Scotland,
3 pages, Plain Late
Isentropic thermodynamics in the PNJL model
We discuss the isentropic trajectories on the QCD phase diagram in the
temperature and the quark chemical potential plane using the
Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with the Polyakov loop coupling (PNJL model). We
impose a constraint on the strange quark chemical potential so that the strange
quark density is zero, which is the case in the ultra relativistic heavy-ion
collisions. We compare our numerical results with the truncated estimates by
the Taylor expansion in terms of the chemical potential to quantify the
reliability of the expansion used in the lattice QCD simulation. We finally
discuss the strange quark chemical potential induced by the strangeness
neutrality condition and relate it to the ratio of the Polyakov loop and the
anti-Polyakov loop.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
Are Muslims the New Catholics? Europe’s Headscarf Laws in Comparative Historical Perspective
In this paper a biologically-inspired model for partly occluded patterns is proposed. The model is based on the hypothesis that in human visual system occluding patterns play a key role in recognition as well as in reconstructing internal representation for a pattern’s occluding parts. The proposed model is realized with a bidirectional hierarchical neural network. In this network top-down cues, generated by direct connections from the lower to higher levels of hierarchy, interact with the bottom-up information, generated from the un-occluded parts, to recognize occluded patterns. Moreover, positional cues of the occluded as well as occluding patterns, that are computed separately but in the same network, modulate the top-down and bottom-up processing to reconstruct the occluded patterns. Simulation results support the presented hypothesis as well as effectiveness of the model in providing a solution to recognition of occluded patterns. The behavior of the model is in accordance to the known human behavior on the occluded patterns
Color superconducting matter in a magnetic field
We investigate the effect of a magnetic field on cold dense three-flavor
quark matter using an effective model with four-Fermi interactions with
electric and color neutrality taken into account. The gap parameters Delta_1,
Delta_2, and Delta_3 representing respectively the predominant pairing between
down and strange (d-s) quarks, strange and up (s-u) quarks, and up and down
(u-d) quarks, show the de Haas-van Alphen effect, i.e. oscillatory behavior as
a function of the modified magnetic field B that can penetrate the color
superconducting medium. Without applying electric and color neutrality we find
Delta_2 \approx Delta_3 >> Delta_1 for 2 e B / mu_q^2, where e is the modified
electromagnetic coupling constant and mu_q is one third of the baryon chemical
potential. Because the average Fermi surface for each pairing is affected by
taking into account neutrality, the gap structure changes drastically in this
case; we find Delta_1 >> Delta_2 \approx Delta_3 for 2 e B > mu_q^2. We point
out that the magnetic fields as strong as presumably existing inside magnetars
might induce significant deviations from the gap structure Delta_1 \approx
Delta_2 \approx Delta_3 at zero magnetic field.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Cr-doping effect on the orbital fluctuation of heavily doped Nd1-xSrxMnO3 (x ~ 0.625)
We have investigated the Cr-doping effect of Nd0.375Sr0.625MnO3 near the
phase boundary between the x2-y2 and 3z2-r2 orbital ordered states, where a
ferromagnetic correlation and concomitant large magnetoresistance are observed
owing to orbital fluctuation. Cr-doping steeply suppresses the ferromagnetic
correlation and magnetoresistance in Nd0.375Sr0.625Mn1-yCryO3 with 0 < y <
0.05, while they reappear in 0.05 < y < 0.10. Such a reentrant behavior implies
that a phase boundary is located at y = 0.05, or a phase crossover occurs
across y = 0.05.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Journal of Applied Physic
Analyzing the Performance of Multilayer Neural Networks for Object Recognition
In the last two years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved an
impressive suite of results on standard recognition datasets and tasks.
CNN-based features seem poised to quickly replace engineered representations,
such as SIFT and HOG. However, compared to SIFT and HOG, we understand much
less about the nature of the features learned by large CNNs. In this paper, we
experimentally probe several aspects of CNN feature learning in an attempt to
help practitioners gain useful, evidence-backed intuitions about how to apply
CNNs to computer vision problems.Comment: Published in European Conference on Computer Vision 2014 (ECCV-2014
The problem of repulsive quark interactions - Lattice versus mean field models
We calculate the 2nd and 4th order quark number susceptibilities at zero
baryochemical potential, using a PNJL approach and an approach which includes,
in a single model, quark and hadronic degrees of freedom. We observe that the
susceptibilities are very sensitive to possible quark-quark vector
interactions. Compared to lattice data our results suggest that above any
mean field type of repulsive vector interaction can be excluded from model
calculations. Below our results show only very weak sensitivity on the
strength of the quark and hadronic vector interaction. The best description of
lattice data around is obtained for a case of coexistence of hadronic and
quark degrees of freedom.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure, version accepted by PL
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