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Gauge-theory approach to planar doped antiferromagnets and external magnetic fields
A review is given of a relativistic non-Abelian gauge theory approach to the
physics of spin-charge separation in doped quantum antiferromagnetic planar
systems, proposed recently by the authors. Emphasis is put on the effects of
constant external magnetic fields on excitations about the superconducting
state in the model. The electrically-charged Dirac fermions (holons),
describing excitations about specific points on the fermi surface, e.g. those
corresponding to the nodes of a d-wave superconducting gap in high-
cuprates, condense, resulting in the opening of a Kosterlitz-Thouless-like gap
(KT) at such nodes. In the presence of strong external magnetic fields at the
surface regions of the planar superconductor, in the direction perpendicular to
the superconducting planes, these KT gaps appear to be enhanced. Our
preliminary analysis, based on analytic Scwhinger-Dyson treatments, seems to
indicate that for an even number of Dirac fermion species, required in our
model as a result of gauging a particle-hole SU(2) symmetry, Parity or Time
Reversal violation does not necessarily occurs.Based on these considerations,
we argue that recent experimental findings, concerning thermal conductivity
plateaux of quasiparticles in planar high- cuprates in strong external
magnetic fields, may indicate the presence of such KT gaps, caused by charged
Dirac-fermion excitations in these materials, as suggested in the above model.Comment: 26 pages LATEX, 6 figures (incorporated) (In this revised version
references on magnetic catalysis were added, and also a note was added with a
comparison of the theoretical results presented here with a second experiment
(cond-mat/9709061), reporting on unconventional superconducting phases in
certain cuprates). Journal ref.:Based on Invited talk by N.E.M. at the `5th
Chia Workshop on Common Trends in Particle and Condensed Matter Physics',
Conference Center, Grand-Hotel Chia-Laguna, Chia, Italy, 1-11 September 199
Gaseous optical contamination of the spacecraft environment: A review
Interactions between the ambient atmosphere and orbiting spacecraft, sounding rockets, and suborbital vehicles, and with their effluents, give rise to optical (extreme UV to LWIR) foreground radiation which constitutes noise that raises the detection threshold for terrestrial and celestial radiations, as well as military targets. Researchers review the current information on the on-orbit optical contamination. Its source species are created in interaction processes that can be grouped into three categories: (1) Reactions in the gas phase between the ambient atmosphere and desorbates and exhaust; (2) Reactions catalyzed by exposed ram surfaces, which occur spontaneously even in the absence of active material releases from the vehicles; and (3) Erosive excitative reactions with exposed bulk (organic) materials, which have recently been identified in the laboratory though not as yet observed on spacecraft. Researchers also assess the effect of optical pumping by earthshine and sunlight of both reaction products and effluents
Pseudoscalar and vector mesons as q\bar{q} bound states
Two-body bound states such as mesons are described by solutions of the
Bethe-Salpeter equation. We discuss recent results for the pseudoscalar and
vector meson masses and leptonic decay constants, ranging from pions up to
c\bar{c} bound states. Our results are in good agreement with data. Essential
in these calculation is a momentum-dependent quark mass function, which evolves
from a constituent-quark mass in the infrared region to a current-quark mass in
the perturbative region. In addition to the mass spectrum, we review the
electromagnetic form factors of the light mesons. Electromagnetic current
conservation is manifest and the influence of intermediate vector mesons is
incorporated self-consistently. The results for the pion form factor are in
excellent agreement with experiment.Comment: 8 pages, 6 .eps figures, contribution to the proceedings of the first
meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadron Physics, Fermilab, Oct. 200
K_{l3} transition form factors
The rainbow truncation of the quark Dyson-Schwinger equation is combined with
the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation for the meson bound state amplitudes and the
dressed quark-W vertex in a manifestly covariant calculation of the K_{l3}
transition form factors and decay width in impulse approximation. With model
gluon parameters previously fixed by the chiral condensate, the pion mass and
decay constant, and the kaon mass, our results for the K_{l3} form factors and
the kaon semileptonic decay width are in good agreement with the experimental
data.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, Revte
Chiral Extrapolation of Lattice Data for Heavy Meson Hyperfine Splittings
We investigate the chiral extrapolation of the lattice data for the
light-heavy meson hyperfine splittings D^*-D and B^*-B to the physical region
for the light quark mass. The chiral loop corrections providing non-analytic
behavior in m_\pi are consistent with chiral perturbation theory for heavy
mesons. Since chiral loop corrections tend to decrease the already too low
splittings obtained from linear extrapolation, we investigate two models to
guide the form of the analytic background behavior: the constituent quark
potential model, and the covariant model of QCD based on the ladder-rainbow
truncation of the Dyson-Schwinger equations. The extrapolated hyperfine
splittings remain clearly below the experimental values even allowing for the
model dependence in the description of the analytic background.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, presentation clarifie
N3LO NN interaction adjusted to light nuclei in ab exitu approach
We use phase-equivalent transformations to adjust off-shell properties of
similarity renormalization group evolved chiral effective field theory NN
interaction (Idaho N3LO) to fit selected binding energies and spectra of light
nuclei in an ab exitu approach. We then test the transformed interaction on a
set of additional observables in light nuclei to verify that it provides
reasonable descriptions of these observables with an apparent reduced need for
three- and many-nucleon interactions.Comment: Revised text due to journal referee comments. 6 pages, 2 figure
Infrared divergence in QED at finite temperature
We consider various ways of treating the infrared divergence which appears in
the dynamically generated fermion mass, when the transverse part of the photon
propagator in N flavour at finite temperature is included in the
Matsubara formalism. This divergence is likely to be an artefact of taking into
account only the leading order term in the expansion when we
calculate the photon propagator and is handled here phenomenologically by means
of an infrared cutoff. Inserting both the longitudinal and the transverse part
of the photon propagator in the Schwinger-Dyson equation we find the dependence
of the dynamically generated fermion mass on the temperature and the cutoff
parameters. It turns out that consistency with certain statistical physics
arguments imposes conditions on the cutoff parameters. For parameters in the
allowed range of values we find that the ratio is approximately 6, consistently with previous calculations which
neglected the transverse photon contribution.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figures, typos corrected, references added, Introduction
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NN Interaction JISP16: Current Status and Prospect
We discuss realistic nonlocal NN interactions of a new type - J-matrix
Inverse Scattering Potential (JISP). In an ab exitu approach, these
interactions are fitted to not only two-nucleon data (NN scattering data and
deuteron properties) but also to the properties of light nuclei without
referring to three-nucleon forces. We discuss recent progress with the ab
initio No-core Shell Model (NCSM) approach and respective progress in
developing ab exitu JISP-type NN-interactions together with plans of their
forthcoming improvements.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Proceedings of Few-body 19
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