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BPS Saturated Vacua Interpolation along One Compact Dimension
A class of generalized Wess-Zumino models with distinct vacua is
investigated. These models allow for BPS saturated vacua interpolation along
one compact spatial dimension. The properties of these interpolations are
studied.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
A systematic benchmark of the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation approach for low-lying optical excitations of small organic molecules
The predictive power of the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach,
rigorously based on many-body Green's function theory but incorporating
information from density functional theory, has already been demonstrated for
the optical gaps and spectra of solid-state systems. Interest in photoactive
hybrid organic/inorganic systems has recently increased, and so has the use of
the BSE for computing neutral excitations of organic molecules. However, no
systematic benchmarks of the BSE for neutral electronic excitations of organic
molecules exist. Here, we study the performance of the BSE for the 28 small
molecules in Thiel's widely-used time-dependent density functional theory
benchmark set [M. Schreiber et al. J. Chem. Phys. 128, 134110 (2008)]. We
observe that the BSE produces results that depend critically on the mean-field
starting point employed in the perturbative approach. We find that this
starting point dependence is mainly introduced through the quasiparticle
energies obtained at the intermediate GW step, and that with a judicious choice
of starting mean-field, singlet excitation energies obtained from BSE are in
excellent quantitative agreement with higher-level wavefunction methods. The
quality of the triplet excitations is slightly less satisfactory
Boundary Contributions Using Fermion Pair Deformation
Continuing the study of boundary BCFW recursion relation of tree level
amplitudes initiated in \cite{Feng:2009ei}, we consider boundary contributions
coming from fermion pair deformation. We present the general strategy for these
boundary contributions and demonstrate calculations using two examples, i.e,
the standard QCD and deformed QCD with anomalous magnetic momentum coupling. As
a by-product, we have extended BCFW recursion relation to off-shell gluon
current, where because off-shell gluon current is not gauge invariant, a new
feature must be cooperated.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figure
Cutoff AdS/CFT duality and the quest for braneworld black holes
We present significant evidence in favour of the holographic conjecture that
``4D black holes localized on the brane found by solving the classical bulk
equations in are quantum corrected black holes and not classical
ones''. The crucial test is the calculation of the quantum correction to the
Newtonian potential based on a numerical computation of in
Schwarzschild spacetime for matter fields in the zero temperature Boulware
vacuum state. For the case of the conformally invariant scalar field the
leading order term is found to be $M/45\pi r^3$. This result is equivalent to
the result which was previously obtained in the weak-field approximation using
Feynman diagrams and which has been shown to be equivalent, via the AdS/CFT
duality, to the analogous calculation in Randall-Sundrum braneworlds. This
asymptotic behavior was not captured in the analytical approximations for
proposed in the literature. The 4D backreaction equations are then
used to make a prediction about the existence and the possible spacetime
structure of macroscopic static braneworld black holes.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Horava-Lifshitz Cosmology: A Review
This article reviews basic construction and cosmological implications of a
power-counting renormalizable theory of gravitation recently proposed by
Horava. We explain that (i) at low energy this theory does not exactly recover
general relativity but instead mimic general relativity plus dark matter; that
(ii) higher spatial curvature terms allow bouncing and cyclic universes as
regular solutions; and that (iii) the anisotropic scaling with the dynamical
critical exponent z=3 solves the horizon problem and leads to scale-invariant
cosmological perturbations even without inflation. We also comment on issues
related to an extra scalar degree of freedom called scalar graviton. In
particular, for spherically-symmetric, static, vacuum configurations we prove
non-perturbative continuity of the lambda->1+0 limit, where lambda is a
parameter in the kinetic action and general relativity has the value lambda=1.
We also derive the condition under which linear instability of the scalar
graviton does not show up.Comment: 28 pages, invited review for CQG; version to be published (v2
Hierarchies without Symmetries from Extra Dimensions
It is commonly thought that small couplings in a low-energy theory, such as
those needed for the fermion mass hierarchy or proton stability, must originate
from symmetries in a high-energy theory. We show that this expectation is
violated in theories where the Standard Model fields are confined to a thick
wall in extra dimensions, with the fermions "stuck" at different points in the
wall. Couplings between them are then suppressed due to the exponentially small
overlaps of their wave functions. This provides a framework for understanding
both the fermion mass hierarchy and proton stability without imposing
symmetries, but rather in terms of higher dimensional geography. A model
independent prediction of this scenario is non-universal couplings of the
Standard Model fermions to the ``Kaluza-Klein'' excitations of the gauge
fields. This allows a measurement of the fermion locations in the extra
dimensions at the LHC or NLC if the wall thickness is close to the TeV scale.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figure
A note on the boundary contribution with bad deformation in gauge theory
Motivated by recently progresses in the study of BCFW recursion relation with
nonzero boundary contributions for theories with scalars and
fermions\cite{Bofeng}, in this short note we continue the study of boundary
contributions of gauge theory with the bad deformation. Unlike cases with
scalars or fermions, it is hard to use Feynman diagrams directly to obtain
boundary contributions, thus we propose another method based on the SYM theory. Using this method, we are able to write down a useful
on-shell recursion relation to calculate boundary contributions from related
theories. Our result shows the cut-constructibility of gauge theory even with
the bad deformation in some generalized sense.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Matrix Gravity and Massive Colored Gravitons
We formulate a theory of gravity with a matrix-valued complex vierbein based
on the SL(2N,C)xSL(2N,C) gauge symmetry. The theory is metric independent, and
before symmetry breaking all fields are massless. The symmetry is broken
spontaneously and all gravitons corresponding to the broken generators acquire
masses. If the symmetry is broken to SL(2,C) then the spectrum would correspond
to one massless graviton coupled to massive gravitons. A novel
feature is the way the fields corresponding to non-compact generators acquire
kinetic energies with correct signs. Equally surprising is the way Yang-Mills
gauge fields acquire their correct kinetic energies through the coupling to the
non-dynamical antisymmetric components of the vierbeins.Comment: One reference adde
Signals of Inflation in a Friendly String Landscape
Following Freivogel {\it et al} we consider inflation in a predictive (or
`friendly') region of the landscape of string vacua, as modeled by
Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Kachru. In such a region the dimensionful
coefficients of super-renormalizable operators unprotected by symmetries, such
as the vacuum energy and scalar mass-squareds are freely scanned over, and the
objects of study are anthropically or `environmentally' conditioned probability
distributions for observables. In this context we study the statistical
predictions of (inverted) hybrid inflation models, where the properties of the
inflaton are probabilistically distributed. We derive the resulting
distributions of observables, including the deviation from flatness
, the spectral index of scalar cosmological perturbations
(and its scale dependence ), and the ratio of tensor to scalar
perturbations . The environmental bound on the curvature implies a solution
to the -problem of inflation with the predicted distribution of
indicating values close to current observations. We find a relatively low
probability () of `just-so' inflation with measurable deviations from
flatness. Intermediate scales of inflation are preferred in these models.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figure
Pseudo-axions in Little Higgs models
Little Higgs models have an enlarged global symmetry which makes the Higgs
boson a pseudo-Goldstone boson. This symmetry typically contains spontaneously
broken U(1) subgroups which provide light electroweak-singlet pseudoscalars.
Unless such particles are absorbed as the longitudinal component of
states, they appear as pseudoscalars in the physical spectrum at the
electroweak scale. We outline their significant impact on Little Higgs
phenomenology and analyze a few possible signatures at the LHC and other future
colliders in detail. In particular, their presence significantly affects the
physics of the new heavy quark states predicted in Little Higgs models, and
inclusive production at LHC may yield impressive diphoton resonances.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figs., accepted to PRD; footnote added, typos correcte
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