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Probability Theory Compatible with the New Conception of Modern Thermodynamics. Economics and Crisis of Debts
We show that G\"odel's negative results concerning arithmetic, which date
back to the 1930s, and the ancient "sand pile" paradox (known also as "sorites
paradox") pose the questions of the use of fuzzy sets and of the effect of a
measuring device on the experiment. The consideration of these facts led, in
thermodynamics, to a new one-parameter family of ideal gases. In turn, this
leads to a new approach to probability theory (including the new notion of
independent events). As applied to economics, this gives the correction, based
on Friedman's rule, to Irving Fisher's "Main Law of Economics" and enables us
to consider the theory of debt crisis.Comment: 48p., 14 figs., 82 refs.; more precise mathematical explanations are
added. arXiv admin note: significant text overlap with arXiv:1111.610
On the superfluidity of classical liquid in nanotubes
In 2001, the author proposed the ultra second quantization method. The ultra
second quantization of the Schr\"odinger equation, as well as its ordinary
second quantization, is a representation of the N-particle Schr\"odinger
equation, and this means that basically the ultra second quantization of the
equation is the same as the original N-particle equation: they coincide in
3N-dimensional space.
We consider a short action pairwise potential V(x_i -x_j). This means that as
the number of particles tends to infinity, , interaction is
possible for only a finite number of particles. Therefore, the potential
depends on N in the following way: . If V(y) is finite
with support , then as the support engulfs a finite
number of particles, and this number does not depend on N.
As a result, it turns out that the superfluidity occurs for velocities less
than , where
is the critical Landau velocity and R is the radius of
the nanotube.Comment: Latex, 20p. The text is presented for the International Workshop
"Idempotent and tropical mathematics and problems of mathematical physics",
Independent University of Moscow, Moscow, August 25--30, 2007 and to be
published in the Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2007, vol. 15, #
Gapped Phases of Quantum Wires
We investigate possible nontrivial phases of a two-subband quantum wire. It
is found that inter- and intra-subband interactions may drive the electron
system of the wire into a gapped state. If the nominal electron densities in
the two subbands are sufficiently close to each other, then the leading
instability is the inter-subband charge-density wave (CDW). For large density
imbalance, the interaction in the inter-subband Cooper channel may lead to a
superconducting instability. The total charge-density mode, responsible for the
conductance of an ideal wire, always remains gapless, which enforces the
two-terminal conductance to be at the universal value of 2e^2/h per occupied
subband. On the contrary, the tunneling density of states (DOS) in the bulk of
the wire acquires a hard gap, above which the DOS has a non-universal
singularity. This singularity is weaker than the square-root divergency
characteristic for non-interacting quasiparticles near a gap edge due to the
"dressing" of massive modes by a gapless total charge density mode. The DOS for
tunneling into the end of a wire in a CDW-gapped state preserves the power-law
behavior due to the frustration the edge introduces into the CDW order. This
work is related to the vast literature on coupled 1D systems, and most of all,
on two-leg Hubbard ladders. Whenever possible, we give derivations of the
important results by other authors, adopted for the context of our study.Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures, to appear in "Interactions and Transport
Properties of Lower Dimensional Systems", Lecture Notes in Physics, Springe
Conductance of a Mott Quantum Wire
We consider transport through a one-dimensional conductor subject to an
external periodic potential and connected to non-interacting leads (a "Mott
quantum wire"). For the case of a strong periodic potential, the conductance is
shown to jump from zero, for the chemical potential lying within the
Mott-Hubbard gap, to the non-interacting value of 2e^2/h, as soon as the
chemical potential crosses the gap edge. This behavior is strikingly different
from that of an optical conductivity, which varies continuously with the
carrier concentration. For the case of a weak potential, the perturbative
correction to the conductance due to Umklapp scattering is absent away from
half-filling.Comment: 4 pages, RevTex, 1 ps figure included; published versio
On the Thermal Stability of Graphone
Molecular dynamics simulation is used to study thermally activated migration
of hydrogen atoms in graphone, a magnetic semiconductor formed of a graphene
monolayer with one side covered with hydrogen so that hydrogen atoms are
adsorbed on each other carbon atom only. The temperature dependence of the
characteristic time of disordering of graphone via hopping of hydrogen atoms to
neighboring carbon atoms is established directly. The activation energy of this
process is found to be Ea=(0.05+-0.01) eV. The small value of Ea points to
extremely low thermal stability of graphone, this being a serious handicap for
practical use of the material in nanoelectronics.Comment: 3 figure
q-Legendre Transformation: Partition Functions and Quantization of the Boltzmann Constant
In this paper we construct a q-analogue of the Legendre transformation, where
q is a matrix of formal variables defining the phase space braidings between
the coordinates and momenta (the extensive and intensive thermodynamic
observables). Our approach is based on an analogy between the semiclassical
wave functions in quantum mechanics and the quasithermodynamic partition
functions in statistical physics. The basic idea is to go from the
q-Hamilton-Jacobi equation in mechanics to the q-Legendre transformation in
thermodynamics. It is shown, that this requires a non-commutative analogue of
the Planck-Boltzmann constants (hbar and k_B) to be introduced back into the
classical formulae. Being applied to statistical physics, this naturally leads
to an idea to go further and to replace the Boltzmann constant with an infinite
collection of generators of the so-called epoch\'e (bracketing) algebra. The
latter is an infinite dimensional noncommutative algebra recently introduced in
our previous work, which can be perceived as an infinite sequence of
"deformations of deformations" of the Weyl algebra. The generators mentioned
are naturally indexed by planar binary leaf-labelled trees in such a way, that
the trees with a single leaf correspond to the observables of the limiting
thermodynamic system
Peculiarities of dynamics of Dirac fermions associated with zero-mass lines
Zero-mass lines result in appearance of linear dispersion modes for Dirac
fermions. These modes play an important role in various physical systems.
However, a Dirac fermion may not precisely follow a single zero-mass line, due
to either tunneling between different lines or centrifugal forces. Being
shifted from a zero-mass line the Dirac fermion acquires mass which can
substantially influence its expected "massless" behavior. In the paper we
calculate the energy gap caused by the tunneling between two zero-mass lines
and show that its opening leads to the delocalization of linear dispersion
modes. The adiabatic bending of a zero-mass line gives rise to geometric
phases. These are the Berry phase, locally associated with a curvature, and a
new phase resulting from the mass square asymmetry in the vicinity of a
zero-mass line.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. In the second version some references were added
and minor changes were made in the introductio
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