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    Entropic force and entanglement system

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    We introduce the isothermal cavity, static holographic screen, and accelerating surface as holographic screen to study the entropic force in the presence of the Schwarzschild black hole. These may merge to provide a consistent holographic screen to define the entropic force on the stretched horizon near the event horizon. Considering the similarity between the stretched horizon of black hole and the entanglement system, we may define the entropic force in the entanglement system without referring the source mass.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in PR

    Dilute magnetic topological semiconductors: What's new beyond the physics of dilute magnetic semiconductors?

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    Role of localized magnetic moments in metal-insulator transitions lies at the heart of modern condensed matter physics, for example, the mechanism of high Tc_{c} superconductivity, the nature of non-Fermi liquid physics near heavy fermion quantum criticality, the problem of metal-insulator transitions in doped semiconductors, and etc. Dilute magnetic semiconductors have been studied for more than twenty years, achieving spin polarized electric currents in spite of low Curie temperatures. Replacing semiconductors with topological insulators, we propose the problem of dilute magnetic topological semiconductors. Increasing disorder strength which corresponds to the size distribution of ferromagnetic clusters, we suggest a novel disordered metallic state, where Weyl metallic islands appear to form inhomogeneous mixtures with topological insulating phases. Performing the renormalization group analysis combined with experimental results, we propose a phase diagram in (λso,Γ,T)(\lambda_{so},\Gamma,T), where the spin-orbit coupling λso\lambda_{so} controls a topological phase transition from a topological semiconductor to a semiconductor with temperature TT and the distribution for ferromagnetic clusters Γ\Gamma gives rise to a novel insulator-metal transition from either a topological insulating or band insulating phase to an inhomogeneously distributed Weyl metallic state with such insulating islands. Since electromagnetic properties in Weyl metal are described by axion electrodynamics, the role of random axion electrodynamics in transport phenomena casts an interesting problem beyond the physics of percolation in conventional disorder-driven metal-insulator transitions. We also discuss how to verify such inhomogeneous mixtures based on atomic force microscopy

    A topological Fermi-liquid theory for interacting Weyl metals with time reversal symmetry breaking

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    Introducing both Berry curvature and chiral anomaly into Landau's Fermi-liquid theory, we construct a topological Fermi-liquid theory, applicable to interacting Weyl metals in the absence of time reversal symmetry. Following the Landau's Fermi-liquid theory, we obtain an effective free-energy functional in terms of the density field of chiral fermions. The density field of chiral fermions is determined by a self-consistent equation, minimizing the effective free-energy functional with respect to the order-parameter field. Beyond these thermodynamic properties, we construct Boltzmann transport theory to encode both the Berry curvature and the chiral anomaly in the presence of forward scattering of a Fermi-liquid state, essential for understanding dynamic correlations in interacting Weyl metals. This generalizes the Boltzmann transport theory for the Landau's Fermi-liquid state in the respect of incorporating the topological structure and extends that for noninteracting Weyl metals in the sense of introducing the forward scattering. Finally, we justify this topological Fermi-liquid theory, generalizing the first-quantization description for noninteracting Weyl metals into the second-quantization representation for interacting Weyl metals. First, we derive a topological Fermi-gas theory, integrating over high-energy electronic degrees of freedom deep inside a pair of chiral Fermi surfaces. As a result, we reproduce a topological Drude model with both the Berry curvature and the chiral anomaly. Second, we take into account interactions between such low-energy chiral fermions on the pair of chiral Fermi surfaces. We perform the renormalization group analysis, and find that only forward scattering turns out to be marginal above possible superconducting transition temperatures, justifying the topological Fermi-liquid theory of interacting Weyl metals with time reversal symmetry breaking

    Nonexistence of quasinormal modes in the extremal BTZ black hole

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    We show that quasinormal modes cannot exist in the extremal BTZ black hole. For this purpose, we consider propagations of a minimally coupled scalar and a single massive graviton obtained from the cosmological topologically massive gravity on the extremal BTZ black hole. The would-be quasinormal modes for a scalar and graviton could not exist because it is impossible to make an ingoing flux into the extremal (degenerate) horizon. This is consistent with the argument that there is no propagating dynamics in the self-dual orbifold of AdS(3) which is just the near-horizon limit of the extremal BTZ black hole.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, references adde

    BRST quantization of a sixth-order derivative scalar field theory

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    We study a sixth order derivative scalar field model in Minkowski spacetime as a toy model of higher-derivative critical gravity theories. This model is consistently quantized when using the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) quantization scheme even though it does not show gauge symmetry manifestly. Imposing a BRST quartet generated by two scalars and ghosts, there remains a non-trivial subspace with positive norm. This might be interpreted as a Minkowskian dual version of the unitary truncation in the logarithmic conformal field theory.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in MPL

    Entropy of black holes in topologically massive gravity

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    We study the issue of black hole entropy in the topologically massive gravity. Assuming that the presence of gravitational Chern-Simons term with the coupling 1/μ1/\mu does modify the horizon radius r~+\tilde{r}_+, we propose S~BH=πr~+/2G3\tilde{S}_{BH}=\pi \tilde{r}_+/2G_3 as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. This entropy of CS-BTZ black hole satisfies the first-law of thermodynamics and the area-law but it is slightly different from the shifted-entropy Sc=πr+/2G3+(1/μl)πr/2G3S_c=\pi r_+/2G_3+ (1/\mu l)\pi r_-/2G_3 based on the BTZ black hole with outer r+r_+ and inner horizon rr_-. In the case of r=0r_-=0, S~BH\tilde{S}_{BH} represents the entropy of non-rotating BTZ black hole with the Chern-Simons term (NBTZ-CS), while ScS_c reduces to the entropy of NBTZ black hole. It shows that S~BH\tilde{S}_{BH} may be a candidate for the entropy of the CS-BTZ black hole.Comment: 11 pages, an expanded version to discuss thermodynamic aspects of BTZ-CS and CS-BTZ black hole

    Entropy function approach to charged BTZ black hole

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    We find solution to the metric function f(r)=0 of charged BTZ black hole making use of the Lambert function. The condition of extremal charged BTZ black hole is determined by a non-linear relation of M_e(Q)=Q^2(1-\ln Q^2). Then, we study the entropy of extremal charged BTZ black hole using the entropy function approach. It is shown that this formalism works with a proper normalization of charge Q for charged BTZ black hole because AdS_2 x S^1 represents near-horizon geometry of the extremal charged BTZ black hole. Finally, we introduce the Wald's Noether formalism to reproduce the entropy of the extremal charged BTZ black hole without normalization when using the dilaton gravity approach.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, version to appear in GR

    Dynamical Structures of High-Frequency Financial Data

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    We study the dynamical behavior of high-frequency data from the Korean Stock Price Index (KOSPI) using the movement of returns in Korean financial markets. The dynamical behavior for a binarized series of our models is not completely random. The conditional probability is numerically estimated from a return series of KOSPI tick data. Non-trivial probability structures can be constituted from binary time series of autoregressive (AR), logit, and probit models, for which the Akaike Information Criterion shows a minimum value at the 15th order. From our results, we find that the value of the correct match ratio for the AR model is slightly larger than the findings of other models.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

    Black hole thermodynamics with generalized uncertainty principle

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    We apply the generalized uncertainty principle to the thermodynamics of a small black hole. Here we have a black hole system with the UV cutoff. It is shown that the minimal length induced by the GUP interrupts the Gross-Perry-Yaffe phase transition for a small black hole. In order to see whether the black hole remnant takes place a transition to a large black hole, we introduce a black hole in a cavity (IR system). However, we fail to show the phase transition of the remnant to the large black hole.Comment: 11 pages, 4 eps.figures, version to appear in PL
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