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A picture of the Yang-Mills deconfinement transition and its lattice verification
In the framework of the center vortex picture of confinement, the nature of
the deconfining phase transition is studied. Using recently developed
techniques which allow to associate a center vortex configuration with any
given lattice gauge configuration, it is demonstrated that the confining phase
is a phase in which vortices percolate, whereas the deconfined phase is a phase
in which vortices cease to percolate if one considers an appropriate slice of
space-time.Comment: 9 pages, 3 ps figures included via epsfig; invited talk presented by
M. Engelhardt at the Eleventh International Light-Cone Workshop on "New
directions in Quantum Chromodynamics", Kyungju, Korea, 21.-25.6.99, to appear
in the proceeding
The Path Integral for 1+1-dimensional QCD
We derive a path integral expression for the transition amplitude in
1+1-dimensional QCD starting from canonically quantized QCD. Gauge fixing after
quantization leads to a formulation in terms of gauge invariant but curvilinear
variables. Remainders of the curved space are Jacobians, an effective
potential, and sign factors just as for the problem of a particle in a box.
Based on this result we derive a Faddeev-Popov like expression for the
transition amplitude avoiding standard infinities that are caused by
integrations over gauge equivalent configurations.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, 3 PostScript figures, uses epsf.st
Interaction of confining vortices in SU(2) lattice gauge theory
Center projection of SU(2) lattice gauge theory allows to isolate magnetic
vortices as confining configurations. The vortex density scales according to
the renormalization group, implying that the vortices are physical objects
rather than lattice artifacts. Here, the binary correlations between points at
which vortices pierce a given plane are investigated. We find an attractive
interaction between the vortices. The correlations show the correct scaling
behavior and are therefore physical. The range of the interaction is found to
be (0.4 +/- 0.2) fm, which should be compared with the average planar vortex
density of approximately 2 vortices/fm^2. We comment on the implications of
these results for recent discussions of the Casimir scaling behavior of higher
dimensional representation Wilson loops in the vortex confinement picture.Comment: 9 pages LaTeX, 2 ps figures included via eps
Nanosecond time transfer via shuttle laser ranging experiment
A method is described to use a proposed shuttle laser ranging experiment to transfer time with nanosecond precision. All that need be added to the original experiment are low cost ground stations and an atomic clock on the shuttle. It is shown that global time transfer can be accomplished with 1 ns precision and transfer up to distances of 2000 km can be accomplished with better than 100 ps precision
On scale symmetry breaking and confinement in D=3 models
Within the framework of the gauge-invariant, but path-dependent, variables
formalism, we study the connection between scale symmetry breaking and
confinement in three-dimensional gluodynamics. We explicitly show that the
static potential profile contains a linear potential, leading to the
confinement of static charges. Also, we establish a new type of equivalence
among different three-dimensional effective theories.Comment: 6 pages, references adde
Time-dependent unitary perturbation theory for intense laser driven molecular orientation
We apply a time-dependent perturbation theory based on unitary
transformations combined with averaging techniques, on molecular orientation
dynamics by ultrashort pulses. We test the validity and the accuracy of this
approach on LiCl described within a rigid-rotor model and find that it is more
accurate than other approximations. Furthermore, it is shown that a noticeable
orientation can be achieved for experimentally standard short laser pulses of
zero time average. In this case, we determine the dynamically relevant
parameters by using the perturbative propagator, that is derived from this
scheme, and we investigate the temperature effects on the molecular orientation
dynamics.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
Center vortices of Yang-Mills theory at finite temperatures
Recent lattice calculations performed at zero temperature and in the maximal
center gauge indicate that quark confinement can be understood in this gauge as
due to fluctuations in the number of magnetic vortices piercing a given Wilson
loop. This development has led to a revival of the vortex condensation theory
of confinement. For a SU(2) gauge group, we show that also at finite
temperatures, center vortices are the relevant collective infrared degrees of
freedom determining the long-range static quark potential; in particular, their
dynamics reflect the transition to the deconfining phase.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, numerics completely overhauled w.r.t. original
version, physical conclusions unchange
Quantum gauge fixing and vortex dominance
We introduce quantum gauge fixing (QGF) as a new class of gauge fixings.
While the maximal center gauge might not show vortex dominance, the confining
properties of the vortices observed in past lattice calculations are argued to
have been obtained in a gauge more akin to QGF than to the strict maximal
center gauge.Comment: talk presented at LATTICE99(confinement), Pisa, Italy, 3 pages, 2
figures, LaTeX using espcrc2.st
NcPred for accurate nuclear protein prediction using n-mer statistics with various classification algorithms
Prediction of nuclear proteins is one of the major challenges in genome annotation. A method, NcPred is described, for predicting nuclear proteins with higher accuracy exploiting n-mer statistics with different classification algorithms namely Alternating Decision (AD) Tree, Best First (BF) Tree, Random Tree and Adaptive (Ada) Boost. On BaCello dataset [1], NcPred improves about 20% accuracy with Random Tree and about 10% sensitivity with Ada Boost for Animal proteins compared to existing techniques. It also increases the accuracy of Fungal protein prediction by 20% and recall by 4% with AD Tree. In case of Human protein, the accuracy is improved by about 25% and sensitivity about 10% with BF Tree. Performance analysis of NcPred clearly demonstrates its suitability over the contemporary in-silico nuclear protein classification research
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