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Anomalous Viscosity of an Expanding Quark-Gluon Plasma
We argue that an expanding quark-gluon plasma has an anomalous viscosity,
which arises from interactions with dynamically generated color fields. We
derive an expression for the anomalous viscosity in the turbulent plasma domain
and apply it to the hydrodynamic expansion phase, when the quark-gluon plasma
is near equilibrium. The anomalous viscosity dominates over the collisional
viscosity for weak coupling and not too late times. This effect may provide an
explanation for the apparent ``nearly perfect'' liquidity of the matter
produced in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider without
the assumption that it is a strongly coupled state.Comment: Final version accepted for publicatio
Characterization of the initial filamentation of a relativistic electron beam passing through a plasma
The linear instability that induces a relativistic electron beam passing
through a return plasma current to filament transversely is often related to
some filamentation mode with wave vector normal to the beam or confused with
Weibel modes. We show that these modes may not be relevant in this matter and
identify the most unstable mode on the two-stream/filamentation branch as the
main trigger for filamentation. This sets both the characteristic transverse
and longitudinal filamentation scales in the non-resistive initial stage.Comment: 4 page, 3 figures, to appear in PR
Momentum dependence of the energy gap in the superconducting state of optimally doped Bi2(Sr,R)2CuOy (R=La and Eu)
The energy gap of optimally doped Bi2(Sr,R)2CuOy (R=La and Eu) was probed by
angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) using a vacuum ultraviolet
laser (photon energy 6.994 eV) or He I resonance line (21.218 eV) as photon
source. The results show that the gap around the node at sufficiently low
temperatures can be well described by a monotonic d-wave gap function for both
samples and the gap of the R=La sample is larger reflecting the higher Tc.
However, an abrupt deviation from the d-wave gap function and an opposite R
dependence for the gap size were observed around the antinode, which represent
a clear disentanglement between the antinodal pseudogap and the nodal
superconducting gap.Comment: Submitted as the proceedings of LT2
Structure of dimension-six derivative interactions in pseudo Nambu-Goldstone N Higgs doublet models
We derive the general structure of dimension-six derivative interactions in
the N Higgs doublet models, where Higgs fields arise as pseudo Nambu-Goldstone
modes of a strongly interacting sector. We show that there are several
relations among the dimension-six operators, and therefore the number of
independent operators decreases compared with models on which only SU(2)_L x
U(1)_Y invariance is imposed. As an explicit example, we derive scattering
amplitudes of longitudinal gauge bosons and Higgs bosons at high energy on
models involving two Higgs doublets, and compare them with the amplitudes in
the case of one Higgs doublet.Comment: 49 pages, 10 figure
Dynamical replica theoretic analysis of CDMA detection dynamics
We investigate the detection dynamics of the Gibbs sampler for code-division
multiple access (CDMA) multiuser detection. Our approach is based upon
dynamical replica theory which allows an analytic approximation to the
dynamics. We use this tool to investigate the basins of attraction when phase
coexistence occurs and examine its efficacy via comparison with Monte Carlo
simulations.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figure
Generating functional analysis of CDMA detection dynamics
We investigate the detection dynamics of the parallel interference canceller
(PIC) for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) multiuser detection, applied to
a randomly spread, fully syncronous base-band uncoded CDMA channel model with
additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) under perfect power control in the
large-system limit. It is known that the predictions of the density evolution
(DE) can fairly explain the detection dynamics only in the case where the
detection dynamics converge. At transients, though, the predictions of DE
systematically deviate from computer simulation results. Furthermore, when the
detection dynamics fail to convergence, the deviation of the predictions of DE
from the results of numerical experiments becomes large. As an alternative,
generating functional analysis (GFA) can take into account the effect of the
Onsager reaction term exactly and does not need the Gaussian assumption of the
local field. We present GFA to evaluate the detection dynamics of PIC for CDMA
multiuser detection. The predictions of GFA exhibits good consistency with the
computer simulation result for any condition, even if the dynamics fail to
convergence.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
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