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From Perturbation Theory to Confinement: How the String Tension is built up
We study the spatial volume dependence of electric flux energies for SU(2)
Yang-Mills fields on the torus with twisted boundary conditions. The results
approach smoothly the rotational invariant Confinement regime. The would-be
string tension is very close to the infinite volume result already for volumes
of . We speculate on the consequences of our result for
the Confinement mechanism.Comment: 6p, ps-file (uuencoded). Contribution to Lattice'93 Conference
(Dallas, 1993). Preprint INLO-PUB 18/93, FTUAM-93/4
A model for conservative chaos constructed from multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates with a trap in 2 dimensions
To show a mechanism leading to the breakdown of a particle picture for the
multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates(BECs) with a harmonic trap in high
dimensions, we investigate the corresponding 2- nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger
equation (Gross-Pitaevskii equation) with use of a modified variational
principle. A molecule of two identical Gaussian wavepackets has two degrees of
freedom(DFs), the separation of center-of-masses and the wavepacket width.
Without the inter-component interaction(ICI) these DFs show independent regular
oscillations with the degenerate eigen-frequencies. The inclusion of ICI
strongly mixes these DFs, generating a fat mode that breaks a particle picture,
which however can be recovered by introducing a time-periodic ICI with zero
average. In case of the molecule of three wavepackets for a three-component
BEC, the increase of amplitude of ICI yields a transition from regular to
chaotic oscillations in the wavepacket breathing.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Isolated vacua in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories
An explicit proof of the existence of nontrivial vacua in the pure
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with higher orthogonal SO(N), N>=7 or the
G_2 gauge group defined on a 3-torus with periodic boundary conditions is
given. Extra vacuum states are separated by an energy barrier from the
perturbative vacuum A_i=0 and its gauge copies.Comment: 8 pages, no figures, late
Light dark matter scattering in outer neutron star crusts
We calculate for the first time the phonon excitation rate in the outer crust
of a neutron star due to scattering from light dark matter (LDM) particles
gravitationally boosted into the star. We consider dark matter particles in the
sub-GeV mass range scattering off a periodic array of nuclei through an
effective scalar-vector interaction with nucleons. We find that LDM effects
cause a modification of the net number of phonons in the lattice as compared to
the standard thermal result. In addition, we estimate the contribution of LDM
to the ion-ion thermal conductivity in the outer crust and find that it can be
significantly enhanced at large densities. Our results imply that for
magnetized neutron stars the LDM-enhanced global conductivity in the outer
crust will tend to reduce the anisotropic heat conduction between perpendicular
and parallel directions to the magnetic field.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
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