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Initial states and decoherence of histories
We study decoherence properties of arbitrarily long histories constructed
from a fixed projective partition of a finite dimensional Hilbert space. We
show that decoherence of such histories for all initial states that are
naturally induced by the projective partition implies decoherence for arbitrary
initial states. In addition we generalize the simple necessary decoherence
condition [Scherer et al., Phys. Lett. A (2004)] for such histories to the case
of arbitrary coarse-graining.Comment: 10 page
A simple necessary decoherence condition for a set of histories
Within the decoherent histories formulation of quantum mechanics, we
investigate necessary conditions for decoherence of arbitrarily long histories.
We prove that fine-grained histories of arbitrary length decohere for all
classical initial states if and only if the unitary evolution preserves
classicality of states (using a natural formal definition of classicality). We
give a counterexample showing that this equivalence does not hold for
coarse-grained histories.Comment: 11 pages,LaTe
Singular Instantons Made Regular
The singularity present in cosmological instantons of the Hawking-Turok type
is resolved by a conformal transformation, where the conformal factor has a
linear zero of codimension one. We show that if the underlying regular manifold
is taken to have the topology of , and the conformal factor is taken to
be a twisted field so that the zero is enforced, then one obtains a
one-parameter family of solutions of the classical field equations, where the
minimal action solution has the conformal zero located on a minimal volume
noncontractible submanifold. For instantons with two singularities, the
corresponding topology is that of a cylinder with D=4
analogues of `cross-caps' at each of the endpoints.Comment: 23 pages, compressed and RevTex file, including nine postscript
figure files. Submitted versio
Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy
Our everyday descriptions of the universe are highly coarse-grained,
following only a tiny fraction of the variables necessary for a perfectly
fine-grained description. Coarse graining in classical physics is made natural
by our limited powers of observation and computation. But in the modern quantum
mechanics of closed systems, some measure of coarse graining is inescapable
because there are no non-trivial, probabilistic, fine-grained descriptions.
This essay explores the consequences of that fact. Quantum theory allows for
various coarse-grained descriptions some of which are mutually incompatible.
For most purposes, however, we are interested in the small subset of
``quasiclassical descriptions'' defined by ranges of values of averages over
small volumes of densities of conserved quantities such as energy and momentum
and approximately conserved quantities such as baryon number. The
near-conservation of these quasiclassical quantities results in approximate
decoherence, predictability, and local equilibrium, leading to closed sets of
equations of motion. In any description, information is sacrificed through the
coarse graining that yields decoherence and gives rise to probabilities for
histories. In quasiclassical descriptions, further information is sacrificed in
exhibiting the emergent regularities summarized by classical equations of
motion. An appropriate entropy measures the loss of information. For a
``quasiclassical realm'' this is connected with the usual thermodynamic entropy
as obtained from statistical mechanics. It was low for the initial state of our
universe and has been increasing since.Comment: 17 pages, 0 figures, revtex4, Dedicated to Rafael Sorkin on his 60th
birthday, minor correction
The U(1) symmetry of the non-tribimaximal pattern in the degenerate mass spectrum case of the neutrino mass matrix
On account of the new neutrino oscillation data signalling a non-zero value
for the smallest mixing angle (), we present an explicit realization
of the underlying U(1) symmetry characterizing the maximal atmospheric mixing
angle () pattern with two degenerate masses but now with
generic values of . We study the effects of the form invariance with
respect to U(1), and/or , subgroups, on the Yukawa couplings and the
mass terms. Later on, we specify to its experimental best fit value
(), and impose the symmetry in an entire model which includes
charged leptons, and many Higgs doublets or standard model singlet heavy
scalars, to show that it can make room for the charged lepton mass hierarchies.
In addition, we show for the non-tribimaximal value of within
type-I seesaw mechanism enhanced with flavor symmetry that neutrino mass
hierarchies can be generated. Furthermore, lepton/baryogenesis can be
interpreted via type-II seesaw mechanism within a setup meeting the flavor
U(1)-symmetry.Comment: latex, 1 table, 20 pages. Typos are corrected, shortened version to
appear in Phys. Rev.
Light Scalar Mesons as Manifestation of Spontaneously Broken Chiral Symmetry
Attention is paid to the production mechanisms of light scalars that reveal
their nature. We reveal the chiral shielding of the \sigma(600) meson. We show
that the kaon loop mechanism of the \phi radiative decays, ratified by
experiment, points to the four-quark nature of light scalars. We show also that
the light scalars are produced in the two photon collisions via four-quark
transitions in contrast to the classic P wave tensor q\bar q mesons that are
produced via two-quark transitions . The history of
spontaneous breaking of symmetry in quantum physics is discussed in Appendix.Comment: Talk at The International Bogolyubov Conference "Problems of
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics" devoted to the 100th anniversary of
N.N.Bogolyubov's birth that was held from August 21 to August 22,2009 in
Moscow at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and from August 23 to August
27, 2009 in Dubna at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR
Running with Triplets: How Slepton Masses Change With Doubly-Charged Higgses
We examine the slepton masses of SUSYLR models and how they change due the
presence of light-doubly charged higgs bosons. We discover that the measurement
of the slepton masses could bound and even predict the value of the third
generation Yukawa coupling of leptons to the SU(2)_R Triplets. We also consider
the unification prospects for this model with the addition of left-handed, B -
L = 0 triplets--a model we call the Triplet Extended Supersymmetric Standard
Model (TESSM). Finally, we discuss the changes in the slepton masses due to the
presence of the SU(2)_L triplets.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, 4 table
Neutrino Mixing Predictions of a Minimal SO(10) Model with Suppressed Proton Decay
During the past year, a minimal renormalizable supersymmetric SO(10) model
has been proposed with the following properties: it predicts a naturally stable
dark matter and neutrino mixing angles theta_atm and theta_13 while at the same
time accommodating CKM CP violation among quarks with no SUSY CP problem.
Suppression of proton decay for all allowed values of tan beta strongly
restricts the flavor structure of the model making it predictive for other
processes as well. We discuss the following predictions of the model in this
paper, e.g. down-type quark masses, and neutrino oscillation parameters, U_e3,
delta_MNSP, which will be tested by long baseline experiments such as T2K and
subsequent experiments using the neutrino beam from JPARC. We also calculate
lepton flavor violation and the lepton asymmetry of the Universe in this model.Comment: 22 pages, 11 figure
Intermediate left-right gauge symmetry, unification of couplings and fermion masses in SUSY
If left-right gauge theory occurs as an intermediate symmetry in a GUT then,
apart from other advantages, it is possible to obtain the see-saw scale
necessary to understand small neutrino masses with Majorana coupling of order
unity. Barring threshold or non-renormalizable gravitational effects, or
assumed presence of additional light scalar particles of unprescribed origin,
all other attempts to achieve manifest one-loop gauge coupling unification in
SUSY SO(10) with left-right intermediate symmetry have not been successful so
far. Attributing this failure to lack of flavor symmetry in the GUT, we show
how the spontaneous symmetry breaking of leads to such
intermediate scale extending over a wide range, GeV
to GeV. All the charged fermion masses are fitted at the see-saw
scale, GeV which is obtained with
Majorana coupling . Using a constrained parametrization in which
CP-violation originates only from quark sector, besides other predictions made
in the neutrino sector, the reactor mixing angle is found to be which is in the range accessible to ongoing and
planned experiments. The leptonic Dirac phase turns out to be radians with Jarlskog invariant .Comment: Minor clarification and few references added to match the published
versio
Decoherence Functional and Probability Interpretation
We confirm that the diagonal elements of the Gell-Mann and Hartle's
decoherence decoherence functional are equal to the relative frequencies of the
results of many identical experiments, when a set of alternative histories
decoheres. We consider both cases of the pure and mixed initial states.Comment: 9 pages, UCSBTH-92-40 and MMC-M-
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