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Path integral formulation of Hodge duality on the brane
In the warped compactification with a single Randall-Sundrum brane, a
puzzling claim has been made that scalar fields can be bound to the brane but
their Hodge dual higher-rank anti-symmetric tensors cannot. By explicitly
requiring the Hodge duality, a prescription to resolve this puzzle was recently
proposed by Duff and Liu. In this note, we implement the Hodge duality via path
integral formulation in the presence of the background gravity fields of warped
compactifications. It is shown that the prescription of Duff and Liu can be
naturally understood within this framework.Comment: 7 pages, LaTe
Extreme Electron-Phonon Coupling in Boron-based Layered Superconductors
The phonon-mode decomposition of the electron-phonon coupling in the
MgB2-like system Li_{1-x}BC is explored using first principles calculations. It
is found that the high temperature superconductivity of such systems results
from extremely strong coupling to only ~2% of the phonon modes. Novel
characteristics of E_2g branches include (1) ``mode lambda'' values of 25 and
greater compared to a mean of for other modes, (2) a precipitous
Kohn anomaly, and (3) E_2g phonon linewidths within a factor of ~2 of the
frequency itself, indicating impending breakdown of linear electron-phonon
theory. This behavior in borne out by recent inelastic x-ray scattering studies
of MgB2 by Shukla et al.Comment: 4 two-column pages, 4 figures. Equations simplified. Figure 4
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Chiral Dynamics and the Low Energy Kaon-Nucleon Interaction
We examine the meson-baryon interaction in the strangeness S=-1 sector using
an effective chiral Lagrangian. Potentials are derived from this Lagrangian and
used in a coupled-channel calculation of the low energy observables. The
potentials are constructed such that in the Born approximation the s-wave
scattering amplitude is the same as that given by the effective chiral
Lagrangian, up to order . Comparison is made with the available low energy
hadronic data of the coupled system, which
includes the resonance, elastic and inelastic
scattering, and the threshold branching ratios of the decay. Good fits
to the experimental data and estimates of previously unknown Lagrangian
parameters are obtained.Comment: 20 pages, 10 postscript figures, uses revtex, e-mail addresses:
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Optical Evidence of Multiphase Coexistence in Single Crystalline (La,Pr,Ca)MnO3
We investigated temperature (T)- and magnetic field-dependent optical
conductivity spectra (\s\w) of a La_5/8-yPr_yCa_3/8MnO_3 (y~0.35) single
crystal, showing intriguing phase coexistence at low T. At T_C < T < T_CO, a
dominant charge-ordered phase produces a large optical gap energy of ~0.4 eV.
At T < T_C, at least two absorption bands newly emerge below 0.4 eV. Analyses
of (\s\w) indicate that the new bands should be attributed to a ferromagnetic
metallic and a charge-disordered phase that coexist with the charge-ordered
phase. This optical study clearly shows that La_5/8-yPrCa_3/8MnO_3 (y~0.35) is
composed of multiphases that might have different lattice strains.Comment: A single file with 9 figures embedded, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Temperature Dependence of Low-Lying Electronic Excitations of LaMnO_3
We report on the optical properties of undoped single crystal LaMnO_3, the
parent compound of the colossal magneto-resistive manganites. Near-Normal
incidence reflectance measurements are reported in the frequency range of
20-50,000 cm-1 and in the temperature range 10-300 K. The optical conductivity,
s_1(w), is derived by performing a Kramers-Kronig analysis of the reflectance
data. The far-infrared spectrum of s_1(w) displays the infrared active optical
phonons. We observe a shift of several of the phonon to high frequencies as the
temperature is lowered through the Neel temperature of the sample (T_N = 137
K). The high-frequency s_1(w) is characterized by the onset of absorption near
1.5 eV. This energy has been identified as the threshold for optical
transitions across the Jahn-Teller split e_g levels. The spectral weight of
this feature increases in the low-temperature state. This implies a transfer of
spectral weight from the UV to the visible associated with the paramagnetic to
antiferromagnetic state. We discuss the results in terms of the double exchange
processes that affect the optical processes in this magnetic material.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
One-loop flavor changing electromagnetic transitions
We discuss the effect of the external fermion masses in the flavor-changing
radiative transitions of a heavy fermion (quark or lepton) to a lighter fermion
at the one-loop level, and point out an often overlooked crucial difference in
the sign of a charge factor between transitions of the down type
and the up type . We give formulas for the
effective vertex in various approximations and the exact formula for and .Comment: LaTeX 16 pages + 4 postscript figures. Misprints corrected, some
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Effect of magnetic and non-magnetic impurities on highly anisotropic superconductivity
We generalize Abrikosov-Gor'kov solution of the problem of weakly coupled
superconductor with impurities on the case of a multiband superconductor with
arbitrary interband order parameter anisotropy, including interband sign
reversal of the order parameter. The solution is given in terms of the
effective (renormalized) coupling matrix and describes not only
suppression but also renormalization of the superconducting gap basically at
all temperatures. In many limiting cases we find analytical solutions for the
critical temperature suppression. We illustrate our results by numerical
calculations for two-band model systems.Comment: 18 pages (12pt) RevTeX, 4 postscript figure
The anti-B --> D* lepton anti-neutrino form factor at zero recoil and the determination of V(cb)
We summarize our lattice QCD study of the form factor at zero recoil in the
decay anti-B --> D* lepton anti-neutrino. After careful consideration of all
sources of systematic uncertainty, we find,
h_A1(1) = 0.913(+0.024-0.017)(+0.017-0.030), where the first uncertainty is
from statistics and fitting while the second combined uncertainty is from all
other systematic effects.Comment: Lattice2001(HeavyQuark); 3 pages, 2 eps figures, espcrc2.st
Polaronic Signatures in Mid-Infrared Spectra: Prediction for LaMnO3 and CaMnO3
Hole-doped LaMnO3 and electron-doped CaMnO3 form self-trapped electronic
states. The spectra of these states have been calculated using a two orbital
(Mn eg Jahn-Teller) model, from which the non-adiabatic optical conductivity
spectra are obtained. In both cases the optical spectrum contains weight in the
gap region, whose observation will indicate the self-trapped nature of the
carrier states. The predicted spectra are proportional to the concentration of
the doped carriers in the dilute regime, with coefficients calculated with no
further model parameters.Comment: 6 pages with 3 figures imbedde
Phase Transition in Conformally Induced Gravity with Torsion
We have considered the quantum behavior of a conformally induced gravity in
the minimal Riemann-Cartan space. The regularized one-loop effective potential
considering the quantum fluctuations of the dilaton and the torsion fields in
the Coleman-Weinberg sector gives a sensible phase transition for an
inflationary phase in De Sitter space. For this effective potential, we have
analyzed the semi-classical equation of motion of the dilaton field in the
slow-rolling regime.Comment: 7pages, no figur
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