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Initiating the effective unification of black hole horizon area and entropy quantization with quasi-normal modes
Black hole (BH) quantization may be the key to unlocking a unifying theory of
quantum gravity (QG). Surmounting evidence in the field of BH research
continues to support a horizon (surface) area with a discrete and uniformly
spaced spectrum, but there is still no general agreement on the level spacing.
In this specialized and important BH case study, our objective is to report and
examine the pertinent groundbreaking work of the strictly thermal and
non-strictly thermal spectrum level spacing of the BH horizon area quantization
with included entropy calculations, which aims to tackle this gigantic problem.
In particular, this work exemplifies a series of imperative corrections that
eventually permits a BH's horizon area spectrum to be generalized from strictly
thermal to non-strictly thermal with entropy results, thereby capturing
multiple preceding developments by launching an effective unification between
them. Moreover, the identified results are significant because quasi-normal
modes (QNM) and "effective states" characterize the transitions between the
established levels of the non-strictly thermal spectrum.Comment: 23 pages, review paper. Final version to appear in Advances in High
Energy Physic
Deconstructing (2,0) proposals
C. P. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under
Grant No. DE-FG02-96ER40959. M. S. S. is supported by
an EURYI award of the European Science Foundatio
Where is the chiral critical point in 3-flavor QCD?
We determine the location of the second order endpoint of the line of first
order chiral phase transition in 3-flavor QCD at vanishing chemical potential.
Using Ferrenberg-Swendsen reweighting for two values of the quark mass we
determine the dependence of the transition line on the chemical potential and
locate the chiral critical point. For both quantities we find a significant
quark mass dependence.Comment: 3 pages, Lattice2003(nonzero), one reference exchange
Numerical study of the equation of state for two flavor QCD at finite density
We discuss the equation of state for 2 flavor QCD at non-zero temperature and
density. Derivatives of with respect to quark chemical potential
up to fourth order are calculated, enabling estimates of the pressure,
quark number density and associated susceptibilities as functions of
via a Taylor series expansion. It is found that the fluctuations in the quark
number density increase in the vicinity of the phase transition temperature and
the susceptibilities start to develop a pronounced peak as is
increased. This suggests the presence of a critical endpoint in the plane.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Talk at Confinement 200
Determination of the s-wave Scattering Length of Chromium
We have measured the deca-triplet s-wave scattering length of the bosonic
chromium isotopes Cr and Cr. From the time constants for
cross-dimensional thermalization in atomic samples we have determined the
magnitudes and ,
where . By measuring the rethermalization rate of Cr over a
wide temperature range and comparing the temperature dependence with the
effective-range theory and single-channel calculations, we have obtained strong
evidence that the sign of is positive. Rescaling our Cr
model potential to Cr strongly suggests that is positive,
too.Comment: v3: corrected typo in y-axis scaling of Figs. 3 and
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