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Hidden gauge structure and derivation of microcanonical ensemble theory of bosons from quantum principles
Microcanonical ensemble theory of bosons is derived from quantum mechanics by
making use of a hidden gauge structure. The relative phase interaction
associated with this gauge structure, described by the Pegg-Barnett formalism,
is shown to lead to perfect decoherence in the thermodynamics limit and the
principle of equal a priori probability, simultaneously.Comment: 10 page
Local gauge theory and coarse graining
Within the discrete gauge theory which is the basis of spin foam models, the
problem of macroscopically faithful coarse graining is studied. Macroscopic
data is identified; it contains the holonomy evaluation along a discrete set of
loops and the homotopy classes of certain maps. When two configurations share
this data they are related by a local deformation. The interpretation is that
such configurations differ by "microscopic details". In many cases the homotopy
type of the relevant maps is trivial for every connection; two important cases
in which the homotopy data is composed by a set of integer numbers are: (i) a
two dimensional base manifold and structure group U(1), (ii) a four dimensional
base manifold and structure group SU(2). These cases are relevant for spin foam
models of two dimensional gravity and four dimensional gravity respectively.
This result suggests that if spin foam models for two-dimensional and
four-dimensional gravity are modified to include all the relevant macroscopic
degrees of freedom -the complete collection of macroscopic variables necessary
to ensure faithful coarse graining-, then they could provide appropriate
effective theories at a given scale.Comment: Based on talk given at Loops 11-Madri
Method and apparatus for receiving and tracking phase modulated signals
An apparatus and technique are described for receiving and tracking analog or digital phase modulated signals from 0 deg to 360 deg phase shift. In order to track a signal with many phases, a detector discerns the phase modulation of the incoming signal and a phase shifter generates a negative phase shift opposite in angle to the detected phase angle. This produces a converted series sideband component barrier signal. The residual carrier signal and the converted series sideband component carrier are added together to produce a tracking carrier signal. The tracking carrier signal is multiplied with the output from a voltage controlled oscillator in the tracking loop to obtain an error signal which drives the voltage controlled oscillator and tracks the incoming signal frequency. The technique is less susceptible to carrier interference which may degrade tracking and tracking may be performed at lower signal to noise ratios and for lower input signal power levels
Predictions for the unitarity triangle angles in a new parametrization
A new approach to the parametrization of the CKM matrix, , is considered
in which is written as a linear combination of the unit matrix and a
non-diagonal matrix which causes intergenerational-mixing, that is
. Such a depends on 3 real parameters
including the parameter . It is interesting that a value of
is required to fit the available data on the CKM-matrix
including CP-violation. Predictions of this fit for the angles ,
and for the unitarity triangle corresponding to
, are given. For
=, we obtain , and
. These values are just about in agreement, within errors,
with the present data. It is very interesting that the unitarity triangle is
expected to be approximately a right-angled, isosceles triangle. Our prediction
is in excellent agreement with the value reported by the Belle collaboration at the Lepton-Photon 2001 meeting.Comment: 11 pages, latex, no figure
Real Space Imaging of Spin Polarons in Zn Doped SrCu2(BO3)2
We report on the real space profile of spin polarons in the quasi
two-dimensional frustrated dimer spin system SrCu2(BO3)2 doped with 0.16% of
Zn. The 11B nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum exhibits 15 additional boron
sites near non-magnetic Zn impurities. With the help of exact diagonalizations
of finite clusters, we have deduced from the boron spectrum the distribution of
local magnetizations at the Cu sites with fine spatial resolution, providing
direct evidence for an extended spin polaron. The results are confronted with
those of other experiments performed on doped and undoped samples of
SrCu2(BO3)2.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures, including supplemental materials. accepted for
publication in PR
Strong correlation effects of the Re 5 electrons on the metal-insulator transition in CaFeReO
We have investigated the electronic structure of polycrystalline
CaFeReO using photoemission spectroscopy and band-structure
calculations within the local-density approximation+ (LDA+) scheme. In
valence-band photoemission spectra, a double-peak structure which is
characteristic of the metallic double perovskite series has been observed near
the Fermi level (), although it is less distinct compared to the
SrFeMoO case. The leading near- structure has a very weak
spectral weight at above the metal-insulator transition (MIT)
temperature of 140 K, and it loses the weight
below , forming a small energy gap.
To reproduce this small energy gap in the calculation, we require a very
large effective () for Re (4 eV) in addition to a relatively
large for Fe (4 eV). Although the most of the experimental
features can be interpreted with the help of the band theory, the overall
agreement between the theory and the experiment was not satisfactory. We
demonstrate that the effective transfer integral between Fe and Re is actually
smaller than that between Fe and Mo in CaFeMoO, which can explain both
MIT and very high ferrimagnetic transition temperature.Comment: 7 pages text, 5 figures, to be pulished in Phys. Rev.
Parametrization of nuclear parton distributions
Optimum nuclear parton distributions are obtained by analyzing available
experimental data on electron and muon deep inelastic scattering (DIS). The
distributions are given at Q^2=1 GeV^2 with a number of parameters, which are
determined by a chi^2 analysis of the data. Valence-quark distributions are
relatively well determined at medium x, but they are slightly dependent on the
assumed parametrization form particularly at small x. Although antiquark
distributions are shadowed at small x, their behavior is not obvious at medium
x from the F_2 data. The gluon distributions could not be restricted well by
the inclusive DIS data; however, the analysis tends to support the gluon
shadowing at small x. We provide analytical expressions and computer
subroutines for calculating the nuclear parton distributions, so that other
researchers could use them for applications to other high-energy nuclear
reactions.Comment: 1+11 pages, LaTeX, amsmath.sty, wrapfig.sty, graphicx.sty, ias.cls,
ias.sty, pramana.sty, pmana10.sty, pbib.sty, times.sty, 9 eps figures.
Invited talk given at the International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Mumbai,
India, Dec. 18-22, 2000, to be published in proceedings. Complete postscript
file is available at http://www-hs.phys.saga-u.ac.jp Email:
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Dehydrogenation Catalyst for Organic Hydride on the Basis of Superheated Liquid-Film Concept
Reversible reaction couples of hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of organic compounds e.g. methylcyclohexane and toluene, or 2-propanol and acetone, are described in terms of hydrogen supplier to fuel cells, which will satisfy our demands of combined heat and power at various compact sizes. Carbon supported nano-sized metal particles, wetted with the liquid substrate in a reactor, was used for conversion of organic hydrides into hydrogen and organic compounds, being separable by distillation. Vigorous nucleate boiling is important for heat transfer as well as for irreversible bubble evolution, leading hydrogen to the vapor phase. Once the bubble is broken at the interface, catalytic hydrogenation will be prohibited, because gaseous hydrogen is unable to dissolve into the boiling liquid. Catalytic dehydrogenation under superheated liquid-film conditions can thus convert low-quality heats into hydrogen energy
On the energy-momentum tensor
We clarify the relation among canonical, metric and Belinfante's
energy-momentum tensors for general tensor field theories. For any tensor field
T, we define a new tensor field \til {\bm T}, in terms of which the
Belinfante tensor is readily computed. We show that the latter is the one that
arises naturally from Noether Theorem for an arbitrary spacetime and it
coincides on-shell with the metric one.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur
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