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Magnetoasymmetric transport in a mesoscopic interferometer: From the weak to the strong coupling regime
The microreversibility principle implies that the conductance of a
two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm interferometer is an even function of the applied
magnetic flux. Away from linear response, however, this symmetry is not
fulfilled and the conductance phase of the interferometer when a quantum dot is
inserted in one of its arms can be a continuous function of the bias voltage.
Such magnetoasymmetries have been investigated in related mesoscopic systems
and arise as a consequence of the asymetric response of the internal potential
of the conductor out of equilibrium. Here we discuss magnetoasymmetries in
quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers when strong electron-electron
interactions are taken into account beyond the mean-field approach. We find
that at very low temperatures the asymmetric element of the differential
conductance shows an abrupt change for voltages around the Fermi level. At
higher temperatures we recover a smooth variation of the magnetoasymmetry as a
function of the bias. We illustrate our results with the aid of the electron
occupation at the dot, demonstrating that its nonequilibrium component is an
asymmetric function of the flux even to lowest order in voltage. We also
calculate the magnetoasymmetry of the current-current correlations (the noise)
and find that it is given, to a good extent, by the magnetoasymmetry of the
weakly nonlinear conductance term. Therefore, both magnetoasymmetries (noise
and conductance) are related to each other via a higher-order
fluctuation-dissipation relation. This result appears to be true even in the
low temperature regime, where Kondo physics and many-body effects dominate the
transport properties.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Andreev Bound States in the Kondo Quantum Dots Coupled to Superconducting Leads
We have studied the Kondo quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads
and investigated the subgap Andreev states using the NRG method. Contrary to
the recent NCA results [Clerk and Ambegaokar, Phys. Rev. B 61, 9109 (2000);
Sellier et al., Phys. Rev. B 72, 174502 (2005)], we observe Andreev states both
below and above the Fermi level.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Complementarity of Resonant Scalar, Vector-Like Quark and Superpartner Searches in Elucidating New Phenomena
The elucidation of the nature of new phenomena requires a multi-pronged
approach to understand the essential physics that underlies it. As an example,
we study the simplified model containing a new scalar singlet accompanied by
vector-like quarks, as motivated by the recent diphoton excess at the LHC. To
be specific, we investigate three models with -doublet, vector-like
quarks with Yukawa couplings to a new scalar singlet and which also couple
off-diagonally to corresponding Standard Model fermions of the first or third
generation through the usual Higgs boson. We demonstrate that three classes of
searches can play important and complementary roles in constraining this model.
In particular, we find that missing energy searches designed for superparticle
production, supply superior sensitivity for vector-like quarks than the
dedicated new quark searches themselves.Comment: References added; small bug found in model and analysis
implementation, numerical results slightly modified, conclusions unchange
Transport properties of a molecule embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer
We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a molecule embedded
in one arm of a mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. Due to the presence of
phonons the molecule level position () and the electron-electron
interaction () undergo a \emph{polaronic shift} which affects dramatically
the electronic transport through the molecular junction. When the
electron-phonon interaction is weak the linear conductance presents Fano-line
shapes as long as the direct channel between the electrodes is opened. The
observed Fano resonances in the linear conductance are originated from the
interference between the spin Kondo state and the direct path. For strong
enough electron-phonon interaction, the electron-electron interaction is
renormalized towards negative values, {\it i.e.} becomes effectively
attractive. This scenario favors fluctuations between the empty and doubly
occupied charge states and therefore promotes a charge Kondo effect. However,
the direct path between the contacts breaks the electron-hole symmetry which
can efficiently suppress this charge Kondo effect. Nevertheless, we show that a
proper tuning of the gate voltage is able to revive the Kondo resonance. Our
results are obtained by using the Numerical Renormalization approximation to
compute the electronic spectral function and the linear conductance.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figure
String Thermalization at a Black Hole Horizon
Susskind has recently shown that a relativistic string approaching the event
horizon of a black hole spreads in both the transverse and longitudinal
directions in the reference frame of an outside observer. The transverse
spreading can be described as a branching diffusion of wee string bits. This
stochastic process provides a mechanism for thermalizing the quantum state of
the string as it spreads across the stretched horizon.Comment: 14 pages, latex, SU-ITP-94-4, NSF-ITP-94-1
Rapidity Gap Events in Squark Pair Production at the LHC
The exchange of electroweak gauginos in the or channel allows squark
pair production at hadron colliders without color exchange between the squarks.
This can give rise to events where little or no energy is deposited in the
detector between the squark decay products. We discuss the potential for
detection of such rapidity gap events at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our
numerical analysis is divided into two parts. First, we evaluate in a
simplified framework the rapidity gap signal at the parton level. The second
part covers an analysis with full event simulation using PYTHIA as well as
Herwig++, but without detector simulation. We analyze the transverse energy
deposited between the jets from squark decay, as well as the probability of
finding a third jet in between the two hardest jets. For the mSUGRA benchmark
point SPS1a we find statistically significant evidence for a color singlet
exchange contribution. The systematical differences between current versions of
PYTHIA and HERWIG++ are larger than the physical effect from color singlet
exchange; however, these systematic differences could be reduced by tuning both
Monte Carlo generators on normal QCD di--jet data.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figure
5d Black Hole as Emergent Geometry of Weakly Interacting 4d Hot Yang-Mills Gas
We demonstrate five-dimensional anti-de Sitter black hole emerges as dual
geometry holographic to weakly interacting N=4 superconformal Yang-Mills
theory. We first note that an ideal probe of the dual geometry is the
Yang-Mills instanton, probing point by point in spacetime. We then study
instanton moduli space at finite temperature by adopting Hitchin's proposal
that geometry of the moduli space is definable by Fisher-Rao "information
geometry". In Yang-Mills theory, the information metric is measured by a novel
class of gauge-invariant, nonlocal operators in the instanton sector. We show
that the moduli space metric exhibits (1) asymptotically anti-de Sitter, (2)
horizon at radial distance set by the Yang-Mills temperature, and (3) after
Wick rotation of the moduli space to the Lorentzian signature, a singularity at
the origin. We argue that the dual geometry emerges even for rank of gauge
groups of order unity and for weak `t Hooft coupling.Comment: Latex, 3 .eps figures; v2. typos corrected + minor change
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