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Fluctuations of conserved charges at finite temperature from lattice QCD
We present the full results of the Wuppertal-Budapest lattice QCD
collaboration on flavor diagonal and non-diagonal quark number susceptibilities
with 2+1 staggered quark flavors, in a temperature range between 125 and 400
MeV. The light and strange quark masses are set to their physical values.
Lattices with Nt=6, 8, 10, 12, 16 are used. We perform a continuum
extrapolation of all observables under study. A Symanzik improved gauge and a
stout-link improved staggered fermion action is utilized. All results are
compared to the Hadron Resonance Gas model predictions: good agreement is found
in the temperature region below the transition.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures in Jhep styl
Structures of Malcev Bialgebras on a simple non-Lie Malcev algebra
Lie bialgebras were introduced by Drinfeld in studying the solutions to the
classical Yang-Baxter equation. The definition of a bialgebra in the sense of
Drinfeld (D-bialgebra), related with any variety of algebras, was given by
Zhelyabin. In this work, we consider Malcev bialgebras. We describe all
structures of a Malcev bialgebra on a simple non-Lie Malcev algebra
Nonabelian Faddeev-Niemi Decomposition of the SU(3) Yang-Mills Theory
Faddeev and Niemi (FN) have introduced an abelian gauge theory which
simulates dynamical abelianization in Yang-Mills theory (YM). It contains both
YM instantons and Wu-Yang monopoles and appears to be able to describe the
confining phase. Motivated by the meson degeneracy problem in dynamical
abelianization models, in this note we present a generalization of the FN
theory. We first generalize the Cho connection to dynamical symmetry breaking
pattern SU(N+1) -> U(N), and subsequently try to complete the Faddeev-Niemi
decomposition by keeping the missing degrees of freedom. While it is not
possible to write an on-shell complete FN decomposition, in the case of SU(3)
theory of physical interest we find an off-shell complete decomposition for
SU(3) -> U(2) which amounts to partial gauge fixing, generalizing naturally the
result found by Faddeev and Niemi for the abelian scenario SU(N+1) -> U(1)^N.
We discuss general topological aspects of these breakings, demonstrating for
example that the FN knot solitons never exist when the unbroken gauge symmetry
is nonabelian, and recovering the usual no-go theorems for colored dyons.Comment: Latex 30 page
Intercomparison of the northern hemisphere winter mid-latitude atmospheric variability of the IPCC models
We compare, for the overlapping time frame 1962-2000, the estimate of the
northern hemisphere (NH) mid-latitude winter atmospheric variability within the
XX century simulations of 17 global climate models (GCMs) included in the
IPCC-4AR with the NCEP and ECMWF reanalyses. We compute the Hayashi spectra of
the 500hPa geopotential height fields and introduce an integral measure of the
variability observed in the NH on different spectral sub-domains. Only two
high-resolution GCMs have a good agreement with reanalyses. Large biases, in
most cases larger than 20%, are found between the wave climatologies of most
GCMs and the reanalyses, with a relative span of around 50%. The travelling
baroclinic waves are usually overestimated, while the planetary waves are
usually underestimated, in agreement with previous studies performed on global
weather forecasting models. When comparing the results of various versions of
similar GCMs, it is clear that in some cases the vertical resolution of the
atmosphere and, somewhat unexpectedly, of the adopted ocean model seem to be
critical in determining the agreement with the reanalyses. The GCMs ensemble is
biased with respect to the reanalyses but is comparable to the best 5 GCMs.
This study suggests serious caveats with respect to the ability of most of the
presently available GCMs in representing the statistics of the global scale
atmospheric dynamics of the present climate and, a fortiori, in the perspective
of modelling climate change.Comment: 39 pages, 8 figures, 2 table
Field-induced water electrolysis switches an oxide semiconductor from an insulator to a metal
Here we demonstrate that water-infiltrated nanoporous glass electrically
switches an oxide semiconductor from an insulator to metal. We fabricated the
field effect transistor structure on an oxide semiconductor, SrTiO3, using
100%-water-infiltrated nanoporous glass - amorphous 12CaO*7Al2O3 - as the gate
insulator. For positive gate voltage, electron accumulation, water electrolysis
and electrochemical reduction occur successively on the SrTiO3 surface at room
temperature, leading to the formation of a thin (~3 nm) metal layer with an
extremely high electron concentration of 10^15-10^16 cm^-2, which exhibits
exotic thermoelectric behaviour.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figure
Quivers, YBE and 3-manifolds
We study 4d superconformal indices for a large class of N=1 superconformal
quiver gauge theories realized combinatorially as a bipartite graph or a set of
"zig-zag paths" on a two-dimensional torus T^2. An exchange of loops, which we
call a "double Yang-Baxter move", gives the Seiberg duality of the gauge
theory, and the invariance of the index under the duality is translated into
the Yang-Baxter-type equation of a spin system defined on a "Z-invariant"
lattice on T^2. When we compactify the gauge theory to 3d, Higgs the theory and
then compactify further to 2d, the superconformal index reduces to an integral
of quantum/classical dilogarithm functions. The saddle point of this integral
unexpectedly reproduces the hyperbolic volume of a hyperbolic 3-manifold. The
3-manifold is obtained by gluing hyperbolic ideal polyhedra in H^3, each of
which could be thought of as a 3d lift of the faces of the 2d bipartite
graph.The same quantity is also related with the thermodynamic limit of the BPS
partition function, or equivalently the genus 0 topological string partition
function, on a toric Calabi-Yau manifold dual to quiver gauge theories. We also
comment on brane realization of our theories. This paper is a companion to
another paper summarizing the results.Comment: 61 pages, 16 figures; v2: typos correcte
Theory of Multidimensional Solitons
We review a number of topics germane to higher-dimensional solitons in
Bose-Einstein condensates. For dark solitons, we discuss dark band and planar
solitons; ring dark solitons and spherical shell solitons; solitary waves in
restricted geometries; vortex rings and rarefaction pulses; and multi-component
Bose-Einstein condensates. For bright solitons, we discuss instability,
stability, and metastability; bright soliton engineering, including pulsed atom
lasers; solitons in a thermal bath; soliton-soliton interactions; and bright
ring solitons and quantum vortices. A thorough reference list is included.Comment: review paper, to appear as Chapter 5a in "Emergent Nonlinear
Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Theory and Experiment," edited by P.
G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and R. Carretero-Gonzalez
(Springer-Verlag
Lentiviral Vector Delivery of Human Interleukin-7 (hIL-7) to Human Immune System (HIS) Mice Expands T Lymphocyte Populations
Genetically modified mice carrying engrafted human tissues provide useful models to study human cell biology in physiologically relevant contexts. However, there remain several obstacles limiting the compatibility of human cells within their mouse hosts. Among these is inadequate cross-reactvitiy between certain mouse cytokines and human cellular receptors, depriving the graft of important survival and growth signals. To circumvent this problem, we utilized a lentivirus-based delivery system to express physiologically relevant levels of human interleukin-7 (hIL-7) in Rag2-/-γc-/- mice following a single intravenous injection. hIL-7 promoted homeostatic proliferation of both adoptively transferred and endogenously generated T-cells in Rag2-/-γc-/- Human Immune System (HIS) mice. Interestingly, we found that hIL-7 increased T lymphocyte numbers in the spleens of HIV infected HIS mice without affecting viral load. Taken together, our study unveils a versatile approach to deliver human cytokines to HIS mice, to both improve engraftment and determine the impact of cytokines on human diseases
Digit-only sauropod pes trackways from China - evidence of swimming or a preservational phenomenon?
For more than 70 years unusual sauropod trackways have played a pivotal role in debates about the swimming ability of sauropods. Most claims that sauropods could swim have been based on manus-only or manus-dominated trackways. However none of these incomplete trackways has been entirely convincing, and most have proved to be taphonomic artifacts, either undertracks or the result of differential depth of penetration of manus and pes tracks, but otherwise showed the typical pattern of normal walking trackways. Here we report an assemblage of unusual sauropod tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Hekou Group of Gansu Province, northern China, characterized by the preservation of only the pes claw traces, that we interpret as having been left by walking, not buoyant or swimming, individuals. They are interpreted as the result of animals moving on a soft mud-silt substrate, projecting their claws deeply to register their traces on an underlying sand layer where they gained more grip during progression. Other sauropod walking trackways on the same surface with both pes and manus traces preserved, were probably left earlier on relatively firm substrates that predated the deposition of soft mud and silt . Presently, there is no convincing evidence of swimming sauropods from their trackways, which is not to say that sauropods did not swim at all
Discovery of the Acoustic Faraday Effect in Superfluid 3He-B
We report the discovery of the acoustic Faraday effect in superfluid 3He-B.
The observation of this effect provides the first direct evidence for
propagating transverse acoustic waves in liquid 3He, a mode first predicted by
Landau in 1957. The Faraday rotation is large and observable because of
spontaneously broken spin-orbit symmetry in 3He-B. We compare the experimental
observations with a simulation of the transverse acoustic impedance that
includes the field-induced circular birefringence of transverse waves.Comment: 4 pages in RevTex plus 3 postscript figures; new version includes:
minor corrections to the text and an updated of list of reference
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