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Probing the gluon self-interaction in light mesons
We investigate masses and decay constants of light mesons from a coupled
system of Dyson--Schwinger and Bethe--Salpeter equations. We explicitly take
into account dominant non-Abelian contributions to the dressed quark-gluon
vertex stemming from the gluon self-interaction. We construct the corresponding
Bethe-Salpeter kernel that satisfies the axial-vector Ward-Takahashi identity.
Our numerical treatment fully includes all momentum dependencies with all
equations solved completely in the complex plane. This approach goes well
beyond the rainbow-ladder approximation and permits us to investigate the
influence of the gluon self-interaction on the properties of mesons. As a first
result we find indications of a nonperturbative cancellation of the gluon
self-interaction contributions and pion cloud effects in the mass of the
rho-meson.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. Matches published version in PR
Probing Unquenching Effects in the Gluon Polarisation in Light Mesons
We introduce an extension to the ladder truncated Bethe-Salpeter equation for
mesons and the rainbow truncated quark Dyson-Schwinger equations which includes
quark-loop corrections to the gluon propagator. This truncation scheme obeys
the axialvector Ward-Takahashi identity relating the quark self-energy and the
Bethe-Salpeter kernel. Two different approximations to the Yang-Mills sector
are used as input: the first is a sophisticated truncation of the full
Yang-Mills Dyson-Schwinger equations, the second is a phenomenologically
motivated form. We find that the spectra and decay constants of pseudoscalar
and vector mesons are overall described well for either approach. Meson mass
results for charge eigenstate vector and pseudoscalar meson masses are compared
to lattice data. The effects of unquenching the system are small but not
negligible.Comment: 26 pages, 13 figure
VR/Urban: spread.gun - design process and challenges in developing a shared encounter for media façades
Designing novel interaction concepts for urban environments is not only a technical challenge in terms of scale, safety, portability and deployment, but also a challenge of designing for social configurations and spatial settings. To outline what it takes to create a consistent and interactive experience in urban space, we describe the concept and multidisciplinary design process of VR/Urban's media intervention tool called Spread.gun, which was created for the Media Façade Festival 2008 in Berlin. Main design aims were the anticipation of urban space, situational system configuration and embodied interaction. This case study also reflects on the specific technical, organizational and infrastructural challenges encountered when developing media façade installations
The nonrelativistic limit of Dirac-Fock codes: the role of Brillouin configurations
We solve a long standing problem with relativistic calculations done with the
widely used Multi-Configuration Dirac-Fock Method (MCDF). We show, using
Relativistic Many-Body Perturbation Theory (RMBPT), how even for relatively
high-, relaxation or correlation causes the non-relativistic limit of states
of different total angular momentum but identical orbital angular momentum to
have different energies. We show that only large scale calculations that
include all single excitations, even those obeying the Brillouin's theorem have
the correct limit. We reproduce very accurately recent high-precision
measurements in F-like Ar, and turn then into precise test of QED. We obtain
the correct non-relativistic limit not only for fine structure but also for
level energies and show that RMBPT calculations are not immune to this problem.Comment: AUgust 9th, 2004 Second version Nov. 18th, 200
Exchange interaction and correlations radically change behaviour of a quantum particle in a classically forbidden region
Exchange interaction strongly influences the long-range behaviour of
localised electron orbitals and quantum tunneling amplitudes. It violates the
oscillation theorem (creates extra nodes) and produces a power-law decay
instead of the usual exponential decrease at large distances. For inner
orbitals inside molecules decay is , for macroscopic systems , where is the Fermi momentum and for 1D, 3.5
for 2D and 4 for 3D crystal. Correlation corrections do not change these
conclusions. Slow decay increases the exchange interaction between localized
spins and the under-barrier tunneling amplitude. The under-barrier transmission
coefficients in solids (e.g. for point contacts) become temperature-dependent
VR/Urban: SMSlingshot
In this paper we describe the concept and design objectives of VR/Urban's media intervention tool SMSlingshot, which was presented at the Riga White Night Arts Festival 2009 for the first time
Rayleigh-Benard Convection with a Radial Ramp in Plate Separation
Pattern formation in Rayleigh-Benard convection in a large-aspect-ratio
cylinder with a radial ramp in the plate separation is studied analytically and
numerically by performing numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. A
horizontal mean flow and a vertical large scale counterflow are quantified and
used to understand the pattern wavenumber. Our results suggest that the mean
flow, generated by amplitude gradients, plays an important role in the roll
compression observed as the control parameter is increased. Near threshold the
mean flow has a quadrupole dependence with a single vortex in each quadrant
while away from threshold the mean flow exhibits an octupole dependence with a
counter-rotating pair of vortices in each quadrant. This is confirmed
analytically using the amplitude equation and Cross-Newell mean flow equation.
By performing numerical experiments the large scale counterflow is also found
to aid in the roll compression away from threshold but to a much lesser degree.
Our results yield an understanding of the pattern wavenumbers observed in
experiment away from threshold and suggest that near threshold the mean flow
and large scale counterflow are not responsible for the observed shift to
smaller than critical wavenumbers.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figure
Analytic structure of the Landau gauge gluon propagator
The results of different non-perturbative studies agree on a power law as the
infrared behavior of the Landau gauge gluon propagator. This propagator
violates positivity and thus indicates the absence of the transverse gluons
from the physical spectrum, i.e. gluon confinement. A simple analytic structure
for the gluon propagator is proposed capturing all of its features. We comment
also on related investigations for the Landau gauge quark propagator.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, talk given by R.A. at 6th Conference on Quark
Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, 21-25 Sep
200
Enhanced tracer transport by the spiral defect chaos state of a convecting fluid
To understand how spatiotemporal chaos may modify material transport, we use
direct numerical simulations of the three-dimensional Boussinesq equations and
of an advection-diffusion equation to study the transport of a passive tracer
by the spiral defect chaos state of a convecting fluid. The simulations show
that the transport is diffusive and is enhanced by the spatiotemporal chaos.
The enhancement in tracer diffusivity follows two regimes. For large Peclet
numbers (that is, small molecular diffusivities of the tracer), we find that
the enhancement is proportional to the Peclet number. For small Peclet numbers,
the enhancement is proportional to the square root of the Peclet number. We
explain the presence of these two regimes in terms of how the local transport
depends on the local wave numbers of the convection rolls. For large Peclet
numbers, we further find that defects cause the tracer diffusivity to be
enhanced locally in the direction orthogonal to the local wave vector but
suppressed in the direction of the local wave vector.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figure
Sampling motif-constrained ensembles of networks
The statistical significance of network properties is conditioned on null
models which satisfy spec- ified properties but that are otherwise random.
Exponential random graph models are a principled theoretical framework to
generate such constrained ensembles, but which often fail in practice, either
due to model inconsistency, or due to the impossibility to sample networks from
them. These problems affect the important case of networks with prescribed
clustering coefficient or number of small connected subgraphs (motifs). In this
paper we use the Wang-Landau method to obtain a multicanonical sampling that
overcomes both these problems. We sample, in polynomial time, net- works with
arbitrary degree sequences from ensembles with imposed motifs counts. Applying
this method to social networks, we investigate the relation between
transitivity and homophily, and we quantify the correlation between different
types of motifs, finding that single motifs can explain up to 60% of the
variation of motif profiles.Comment: Updated version, as published in the journal. 7 pages, 5 figures, one
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