358 research outputs found
Optical Hall conductivity of systems with gapped spectral nodes
We calculate the optical Hall conductivity within the Kubo formalism for
systems with gapped spectral nodes, where the latter have a power-law
dispersion with exponent n. The optical conductivity is proportional to n and
there is a characteristic logarithmic singularity as the frequency approaches
the gap energy. The optical Hall conductivity is almost unaffected by thermal
fluctuations and disorder for n=1, whereas disorder has a stronger effect on
transport properties if n=2
Electrically Evoked Cortical Potentials (EECP) in Rabbits Using Implantable Retinal Stimulation System
NBS-ERC Supported by KOSEF (Grant R11-2000-075-01001-0) & Korea
Health 21 R&D Project MOHW A05025
A unique Z_4^R symmetry for the MSSM
We consider the possible anomaly free Abelian discrete symmetries of the MSSM
that forbid the mu-term at perturbative order. Allowing for anomaly
cancellation via the Green-Schwarz mechanism we identify discrete R-symmetries
as the only possibility and prove that there is a unique Z_4^R symmetry that
commutes with SO(10). We argue that non-perturbative effects will generate a
mu-term of electroweak order thus solving the mu-problem. The non-perturbative
effects break the Z_4^R symmetry leaving an exact Z_2 matter parity. As a
result dimension four baryon- and lepton-number violating operators are absent
while, at the non-perturbative level, dimension five baryon- and lepton-number
violating operators get induced but are highly suppressed so that the nucleon
decay rate is well within present bounds.Comment: 6 page
A Model of Fermion Masses and Flavor Mixings with Family Symmetry
The family symmetry is proposed to solve flavor problems
about fermion masses and flavor mixings. It's breaking is implemented by some
flavon fields at the high-energy scale. In addition a discrete group is
introduced to generate tiny neutrino masses, which is broken by a real singlet
scalar field at the middle-energy scale. The low-energy effective theory is
elegantly obtained after all of super-heavy fermions are integrated out and
decoupling. All the fermion mass matrices are regularly characterized by four
fundamental matrices and thirteen parameters. The model can perfectly fit and
account for all the current experimental data about the fermion masses and
flavor mixings, in particular, it finely predicts the first generation quark
masses and the values of and in neutrino
physics. All of the results are promising to be tested in the future
experiments.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, to make a few of corrections to the old version.
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1011.457
Ultrarelativistic electron-hole pairing in graphene bilayer
We consider ground state of electron-hole graphene bilayer composed of two
independently doped graphene layers when a condensate of spatially separated
electron-hole pairs is formed. In the weak coupling regime the pairing affects
only conduction band of electron-doped layer and valence band of hole-doped
layer, thus the ground state is similar to ordinary BCS condensate. At strong
coupling, an ultrarelativistic character of electron dynamics reveals and the
bands which are remote from Fermi surfaces (valence band of electron-doped
layer and conduction band of hole-doped layer) are also affected by the
pairing. The analysis of instability of unpaired state shows that s-wave
pairing with band-diagonal condensate structure, described by two gaps, is
preferable. A relative phase of the gaps is fixed, however at weak coupling
this fixation diminishes allowing gapped and soliton-like excitations. The
coupled self-consistent gap equations for these two gaps are solved at zero
temperature in the constant-gap approximation and in the approximation of
separable potential. It is shown that, if characteristic width of the pairing
region is of the order of magnitude of chemical potential, then the value of
the gap in the spectrum is not much different from the BCS estimation. However,
if the pairing region is wider, then the gap value can be much larger and
depends exponentially on its energy width.Comment: 13 pages with 8 figures; accepted to Eur. Phys. J.
Lepton Dipole Moments and Rare Decays in the CP-violating MSSM with Nonuniversal Soft-Supersymmetry Breaking
We investigate the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment (MDM), the muon
electric dipole moment (EDM) and the lepton-flavour-violating decays of the
lepton, and , in the CP-violating
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with nonuniversal
soft-supersymmetry breaking. We evaluate numerically the muon EDM and the
branching ratios and , after taking
into account the experimental constraints from the electron EDM and muon MDM.
Upon imposition of the experimental limits on our theoretical predictions for
the aforementioned branching ratios and the muon MDM, we obtain an upper bound
of about on the muon EDM which lies well within the
explorable reach of the proposed experiment at BNL.Comment: Latex, 26 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Higgs-boson production associated with a bottom quark at hadron colliders with SUSY-QCD corrections
The Higgs boson production p p (p\bar p) -> b h +X via b g -> b h at the LHC,
which may be an important channel for testing the bottom quark Yukawa coupling,
is subject to large supersymmetric quantum corrections. In this work the
one-loop SUSY-QCD corrections to this process are evaluated and are found to be
quite sizable in some parameter space. We also study the behavior of the
corrections in the limit of heavy SUSY masses and find the remnant effects of
SUSY-QCD. These remnant effects, which are left over in the Higgs sector by the
heavy sparticles, are found to be so sizable (for a light CP-odd Higgs and
large \tan\beta) that they might be observable in the future LHC experiment.
The exploration of such remnant effects is important for probing SUSY,
especially in case that the sparticles are too heavy (above TeV) to be directly
discovered at the LHC.Comment: Results for the Tevatron adde
Buffer layer-assisted growth of Ge nanoclusters on Si
In the buffer layer-assisted growth method, a condensed inert gas layer of xenon, with low-surface free energy, is used as a buffer to prevent direct interactions of deposited atoms with substrates. Because ofâŁan unusually wide applicability, the buffer layer-assisted growth method has provided a unique avenue for creation of nanostructures that are otherwise impossible to grow, and thus offered unprecedented opportunities for fundamental and applied research in nanoscale science and technology. In this article, we review recent progress in the application of the buffer layer-assisted growth method to the fabrication of Ge nanoclusters on Si substrates. In particular, we emphasize the novel configurations of the obtained Ge nanoclusters, which are characterized by the absence of a wetting layer, quasi-zero dimensionality with tunable sizes, and high cluster density in comparison with Ge nanoclusters that are formed with standard Stranski-Krastanov growth methods. The optical emission behaviors are discussed in correlation with the morphological properties
Discrete R symmetries for the MSSM and its singlet extensions
We determine the anomaly free discrete R symmetries, consistent with the
MSSM, that commute with SU(5) and suppress the parameter and nucleon
decay. We show that the order M of such symmetries has to divide 24 and
identify 5 viable symmetries. The simplest possibility is a symmetry
which commutes with SO(10). We present a string-derived model with this
symmetry and the exact MSSM spectrum below the GUT scale; in this model
originates from the Lorentz symmetry of compactified dimensions. We extend the
discussion to include the singlet extensions of the MSSM and find and
are the only possible symmetries capable of solving the problem
in the NMSSM. We also show that a singlet extension of the MSSM based on a
symmetry can provide a simultaneous solution to the and strong
CP problem with the axion coupling in the favoured window.Comment: 44+1 pages, 2 figure
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