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Correlated random fields in dielectric and spin glasses
Both orientational glasses and dipolar glasses possess an intrinsic random
field, coming from the volume difference between impurity and host ions. We
show this suppresses the glass transition, causing instead a crossover to the
low phase. Moreover the random field is correlated with the inter-impurity
interactions, and has a broad distribution. This leads to a peculiar variant of
the Imry-Ma mechanism, with 'domains' of impurities oriented by a few frozen
pairs. These domains are small: predictions of domain size are given for
specific systems, and their possible experimental verification is outlined. In
magnetic glasses in zero field the glass transition survives, because the
random fields are disallowed by time-reversal symmetry; applying a magnetic
field then generates random fields, and suppresses the spin glass transition.Comment: minor modifications, final versio
Neutrinos with velocities greater than c ?
A possible explanation of the results of the OPERA experiment is presented.
Assuming that the usual value of c should be interpreted as the velocity of
light in dark matter, we call the "true" velocity of light in vacuum, .
Then the OPERA neutrinos can be faster than c but slower than . We also
discuss the relationship between and neutrino masses.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, additional references adde
Absolute neutrino masses
We discuss the possibility of using experiments timing the propagation of
neutrino beams over large distances to help determine the absolute masses of
the three neutrinos.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
Quantum spin glass in anisotropic dipolar systems
The spin-glass phase in the \LHx compound is considered. At zero transverse
field this system is well described by the classical Ising model. At finite
transverse field deviations from the transverse field quantum Ising model are
significant, and one must take properly into account the hyperfine
interactions, the off-diagonal terms in the dipolar interactions, and details
of the full J=8 spin Hamiltonian to obtain the correct physical picture. In
particular, the system is not a spin glass at finite transverse fields and does
not show quantum criticality.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Condens. Matter
(proceedings of the HFM2006 conference
Study of Scalar Mesons and Related Radiative Decays
After a brief review of the puzzling light scalar meson sector of QCD, a
brief summary will be given of a paper concerning radiative decays involving
the light scalars. There, a simple vector meson dominance model is constructed
in an initial attempt to relate a large number of the radiative decays
involving a putative scalar nonet to each other. As an application it is
illustrated why mixing is not expected to greatly alter the
production ratio for radiative decays.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, Talk presented at SUNYIT (Utica/NY) conference on
High Energy Physics, June 6, 200
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