23 research outputs found
The Rotating Mass Matrix, the Strong CP Problem and Higgs Decay
We investigate a recent solution to the strong CP problem, obtaining a
theta-angle of order unity, and show that a smooth trajectory of the massive
eigenvector of a rank-one rotating mass matrix is consistent with the
experimental data for both fermion masses and mixing angles (except for the
masses of the lightest quarks). Using this trajectory we study Higgs decay and
find suppression of compared to the standard model
predictions for a range of Higgs masses. We also give limits for flavour
violating decays, including a relatively large branching ratio for the
mode.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures; improvements to introduction and preliminarie
Sums of hermitian squares and the BMV conjecture
Recently Lieb and Seiringer showed that the Bessis-Moussa-Villani conjecture
from quantum physics can be restated in the following purely algebraic way: The
sum of all words in two positive semidefinite matrices where the number of each
of the two letters is fixed is always a matrix with nonnegative trace. We show
that this statement holds if the words are of length at most 13. This has
previously been known only up to length 7. In our proof, we establish a
connection to sums of hermitian squares of polynomials in noncommuting
variables and to semidefinite programming. As a by-product we obtain an example
of a real polynomial in two noncommuting variables having nonnegative trace on
all symmetric matrices of the same size, yet not being a sum of hermitian
squares and commutators.Comment: 21 pages; minor changes; a companion Mathematica notebook is now
available in the source fil
Nontrivial eigenvalues of the Liouvillian of an open quantum system
We present methods of finding complex eigenvalues of the Liouvillian of an
open quantum system. The goal is to find eigenvalues that cannot be predicted
from the eigenvalues of the corresponding Hamiltonian. Our model is a T-type
quantum dot with an infinitely long lead. We suggest the existence of the
non-trivial eigenvalues of the Liouvillian in two ways: one way is to show that
the original problem reduces to the problem of a two-particle Hamiltonian with
a two-body interaction and the other way is to show that diagram expansion of
the Green's function has correlation between the bra state and the ket state.
We also introduce the integral equations equivalent to the original eigenvalue
problem.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, proceeding
Existence of the -meson below 1 GeV and glueball
On the basis of a simultaneous description of the isoscalar s-wave channel of
the scattering (from the threshold up to 1.9 GeV) and of the
process (from the threshold to 1.4 GeV) in the
model-independent approach, a confirmation of the -meson at 665
MeV and an indication for the glueball nature of the state are
obtained. It is shown that the large -background, usually obtained,
combines, in reality, the influence of the left-hand branch-point and the
contribution of a very wide resonance at 665 MeV. The coupling constants
of the observed states with the and systems and lengths of
the and scattering are obtained.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, LaTex; submitted to Physics Letters