643 research outputs found
Conductance properties of rough quantum wires with colored surface disorder
Effects of correlated disorder on wave localization have attracted
considerable interest. Motivated by the importance of studies of quantum
transport in rough nanowires, here we examine how colored surface roughness
impacts the conductance of two-dimensional quantum waveguides, using direct
scattering calculations based on the reaction matrix approach. The
computational results are analyzed in connection with a theoretical relation
between the localization length and the structure factor of correlated
disorder. We also examine and discuss several cases that have not been treated
theoretically or are beyond the validity regime of available theories. Results
indicate that conductance properties of quantum wires are controllable via
colored surface disorder.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure
Deconfinement and Thermodynamics in 5D Holographic Models of QCD
We review 5D holographic approaches to finite temperature QCD. Thermodynamic
properties of the "hard-wall" and the "soft-wall" models are derived. Various
non-realistic features in these models are cured by the set-up of improved
holographic QCD, that we review here.Comment: Invited review paper for Mod. Phys. Let
Engineering nonlinear response of nanomaterials using Fano resonances
We show that, nonlinear optical processes of nanoparticles can be controlled
by the presence of interactions with a molecule or a quantum dot. By choosing
the appropriate level spacing for the quantum emitter, one can either suppress
or enhance the nonlinear frequency conversion. We reveal the underlying
mechanism for this effect, which is already observed in recent experiments: (i)
Suppression occurs simply because transparency induced by Fano resonance does
not allow an excitation at the converted frequency. (ii) Enhancement emerges
since nonlinear process can be brought to resonance. Path interference effect
cancels the nonresonant frequency terms. We demonstrate the underlying physics
using a simplified model, and we show that the predictions of the model are in
good agreement with the 3-dimensional boundary element method (MNPBEM toolbox)
simulations. Here, we consider the second harmonic generation in a plasmonic
converter as an example to demonstrate the control mechanism. The phenomenon is
the semi-classical analog of nonlinearity enhancement via electromagnetically
induced transparency.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Phenomenology of AdS/QCD and Its Gravity Dual
We construct the dilaton potential in the gravity dual theory of AdS/QCD for
the warp factor of Refs.{1,2}. Using this AdS_5-metric with properties similar
to QCD, we find that the gravity dual leads to a meaningful gauge coupling in
the region between the charmonium and bottonium mass, but differs slightly from
QCD in the extreme UV. When we fix the ultraviolet behavior in accord with the
beta-function, we can obtain good agreement with the overall heavy
quark-antiquark potential. Although the leading order proportional to
-\alpha^{4/3}/r differs from perturbative QCD, the full potential agrees quite
well with the short distance QCD potential in NNLO.Comment: 42 pages, 13 figures, 1 tabl
Polyakov Loops in Strongly-Coupled Plasmas with Gravity Duals
We study the properties of the Polyakov loop in strongly-coupled gauge
plasmas that are conjectured to be dual to five dimensional theories of gravity
coupled to a nontrivial single scalar field. We find a gravity dual that can
describe the thermodynamic properties and also the expectation value of the
Polyakov loop in the deconfined phase of quenched SU(3) QCD up to .Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at the International Conference on
Strangeness in Quark Matter, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 27 - oct.
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A Holographic Model of Strange Metals
We give a review on our recent work arXiv:1006.0779 [hep-th] and
arXiv:1006.1719 [hep-th], in which properties of holographic strange metals
were investigated. The background is chosen to be anisotropic scaling solution
in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theory with a Liouville potential. The effects of
bulk Maxwell field, an extra U(1) gauge field and probe D-branes on the DC
conductivity, the DC Hall conductivity and the AC conductivity are extensively
analyzed. We classify behaviors of the conductivities according to the
parameter ranges in the bulk theory and characterize conditions when the
holographic results can reproduce experimental data.Comment: 34 pages, 15 figures, minor correction
Dressed spectral densities for heavy quark diffusion in holographic plasmas
We analyze the large frequency behavior of the spectral densities that govern
the generalized Langevin diffusion process for a heavy quark in the context of
the gauge/gravity duality. The bare Langevin correlators obtained from the
trailing string solution have a singular short-distance behavior. We argue that
the proper dressed spectral functions are obtained by subtracting the
zero-temperature correlators. The dressed spectral functions have a
sufficiently fast fall-off at large frequency so that the Langevin process is
well defined and the dispersion relations are satisfied. We identify the cases
in which the subtraction does not modify the associated low-frequency transport
coefficients. These include conformal theories and the non-conformal,
non-confining models. We provide several analytic and numerical examples in
conformal and non-conformal holographic backgrounds.Comment: 51 pages, 2 figure
Holography and Thermodynamics of 5D Dilaton-gravity
The asymptotically-logarithmically-AdS black-hole solutions of 5D dilaton
gravity with a monotonic dilaton potential are analyzed in detail. Such
theories are holographically very close to pure Yang-Mills theory in four
dimensions. The existence and uniqueness of black-hole solutions is shown. It
is also shown that a Hawking-Page transition exists at finite temperature if
and only if the potential corresponds to a confining theory. The physics of the
transition matches in detail with that of deconfinement of the Yang-Mills
theory. The high-temperature phase asymptotes to a free gluon gas at high
temperature matching the expected behavior from asymptotic freedom. The thermal
gluon condensate is calculated and shown to be crucial for the existence of a
non-trivial deconfining transition. The condensate of the topological charge is
shown to vanish in the deconfined phase.Comment: LaTeX, 61 pages (main body) + 58 pages (appendix), 25 eps figures.
Revised version, published in JHEP. Two equations added in Section 7.4; typos
corrected; references adde
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