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On the spectrum of the twisted Dolbeault Laplacian over K\"ahler manifolds
We use Dirac operator techniques to a establish sharp lower bound for the
first eigenvalue of the Dolbeault Laplacian twisted by Hermitian-Einstein
connections on vector bundles of negative degree over compact K\"ahler
manifolds.Comment: 14 pages. Completely revised: estimates corrected and shown to be
shar
Scaling properties of a ferromagnetic thin film model at the depinning transition
In this paper, we perform a detailed study of the scaling properties of a
ferromagnetic thin film model. Recently, interest has increased in the scaling
properties of the magnetic domain wall (MDW) motion in disordered media when an
external driving field is present. We consider a (1+1)-dimensional model, based
on evolution rules, able to describe the MDW avalanches. The global interface
width of this model shows Family-Vicsek scaling with roughness exponent
and growth exponent . In contrast, this
model shows scaling anomalies in the interface local properties characteristic
of other systems with depinning transition of the MDW, e.g. quenched
Edwards-Wilkinson (QEW) equation and random-field Ising model (RFIM) with
driving. We show that, at the depinning transition, the saturated average
velocity vanished very slowly (with ) when the reduced force . The simulation
results show that this model verifies all accepted scaling relations which
relate the global exponents and the correlation length (or time) exponents,
valid in systems with depinning transition. Using the interface tilting method,
we show that the model, close to the depinning transition, exhibits a
nonlinearity similar to the one included in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ)
equation. The nonlinear coefficient with , which implies that as the depinning transition is
approached, a similar qualitatively behaviour to the driven RFIM. We conclude
this work by discussing the main features of the model and the prospects opened
by it.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
Weak and strong typicality in quantum systems
We study the properties of mixed states obtained from eigenstates of
many-body lattice Hamiltonians after tracing out part of the lattice. Two
scenarios emerge for generic systems: (i) the diagonal entropy becomes
equivalent to the thermodynamic entropy when a few sites are traced out (weak
typicality); and (ii) the von Neumann (entanglement) entropy becomes equivalent
to the thermodynamic entropy when a large fraction of the lattice is traced out
(strong typicality). Remarkably, the results for few-body observables obtained
with the reduced, diagonal, and canonical density matrices are very similar to
each other, no matter which fraction of the lattice is traced out. Hence, for
all physical quantities studied here, the results in the diagonal ensemble
match the thermal predictions.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, as publishe
Cold uniform spherical collapse revisited
We report results of a study of the Newtonian dynamics of N self-gravitating
particles which start in a quasi-uniform spherical configuration, without
initial velocities. These initial conditions would lead to a density
singularity at the origin at a finite time when N \rightarrow \infty, but this
singularity is regulated at any finite N (by the associated density
fluctuations). While previous studies have focussed on the behaviour as a
function of N of the minimal size reached during the contracting phase, we
examine in particular the size and energy of the virialized halo which results.
We find the unexpected result that the structure decreases in size as N
increases, scaling in proportion to N^{-1/3}, a behaviour which is associated
with an ejection of kinetic energy during violent relaxation which grows in
proportion to N^{1/3}. This latter scaling may be qualitatively understood, and
if it represents the asymptotic behaviour in N implies that this ejected energy
is unbounded above. We discuss also tests we have performed which indicate that
this ejection is a mean-field phenomenon (i.e. a result of collisionless
dynamics).Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures; proceedings of "Invisible Universe" conference,
Paris, July 200
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