205 research outputs found
Dark energy, cosmological constant and neutrino mixing
The today estimated value of dark energy can be achieved by the vacuum
condensate induced by neutrino mixing phenomenon. Such a tiny value is
recovered for a cut-off of the order of Planck scale and it is linked to the
sub eV neutrino mass scale. Contributions to dark energy from auxiliary fields
or mechanisms are not necessary in this approach.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Understanding flavor mixing in Quantum Field Theory
We report on recent results showing that a rich non-perturbative vacuum
structure is associated with flavor mixing in Quantum Field Theory.
We treat explicitly the case of mixing among three generations of Dirac
fermions.
Exact oscillation formulas are presented exhibiting new features with respect
to the usual ones. CP and T violation are also discussed.Comment: 9 pages. Presented at the "International Conference on Flavor
Physics", Zhang-Jia-Jie, China, May 31 - June 6 200
Group theoretical aspects of neutrino mixing in Quantum Field Theory
By resorting to recent results on the Quantum Field Theory of mixed
particles, we discuss some aspects of three flavor neutrino mixing. Particular
emphasis is given to the related algebraic structures and their deformation in
the presence of CP violation. A novel geometric phase related to CP violation
is introduced.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. Presented at the XII International Baksan School
"Particles and Cosmology", Baksan Valley, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian
Federation - April 21 - 26, 200
A new perspective in the dark energy puzzle from particle mixing phenomenon
We report on recent results on particle mixing and oscillations in quantum
field theory. We discuss the role played in cosmology by the vacuum condensate
induced by the neutrino mixing phenomenon. We show that it can contribute to
the dark energy of the universe.Comment: 11 pages, to be published on the review book "Dark Energy-Current
Advances and Ideas
Geometric phase and gauge theory structure in quantum computing
We discuss the presence of a geometrical phase in the evolution of a qubit
state and its gauge structure. The time evolution operator is found to be the
free energy operator, rather than the Hamiltonian operator.Comment: 5 pages, presented at Fifth International Workshop DICE2010:
Space-Time-Matter - current issues in quantum mechanics and beyond,
Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 13-17, 201
Dark energy induced by neutrino mixing
The energy content of the vacuum condensate induced by the neutrino mixing is
interpreted as dynamically evolving dark energy.Comment: 5 pages, Presented at 3nd International Workshop DICE 2006: Quantum
Mechanics between Decoherence and Determinism: new aspects from particle
physics to cosmology, September 11-15, 200
Probing quantum field theory particle mixing and dark-matter-like effects with Rydberg atoms
Abstract We analyze the oscillations of Rydberg atoms in the framework of quantum field theory and analyze the analogy with flavor mixing and oscillations. We reveal a non trivial vacuum energy which has the equation of state analogous to that of cold dark matter. This energy is formally similar to that expected for mixed neutrinos and affects the thermal capacity of the gas. Therefore, deflection of the thermal capacity of Rydberg atoms could prove the condensate structure of vacuum for mixing fermions and open new scenarios in the study of the dark components of the universe. We also derive new Rabi oscillation formulae which are, in principle, testable experimentally
Quantum Field Theory of boson mixing
We consider the quantum field theoretical formulation of boson field mixing and obtain the exact oscillation formula. This formula does not depend on arbitrary mass parameters. We show that the space for the mixed field states is unitarily inequivalent to the state space where the unmixed field operators are defined. We also study the structure of the currents and charges for the mixed fields
Flavor states of mixed neutrinos
By resorting to previous results on flavor mixing in Quantum Field Theory, we
show how to consistently define flavor states of mixed neutrinos as eigenstates
of the flavor charge operators.Comment: 4 pages, presented at 13th International Symposium on Particles,
Strings and Cosmology, PASCOS-07, 2-7 July 2007, Imperial College Londo
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