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Decaying Hidden Gauge Boson and the PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS Anomalies
We show that the PAMELA anomaly in the positron fraction as well as the
ATIC/PPB-BETS excesses in the e^- + e^+ flux are simultaneously explained in
our scenario that a hidden U(1)H gauge boson constitutes dark matter of the
Universe and decays into the standard-model particles through a kinetic mixing
with an U(1)B-L gauge boson. Interestingly, the B-L charge assignment
suppresses an antiproton flux in consistent with the PAMELA and BESS
experiments, while the hierarchy between the B-L symmetry breaking scale and
the weak scale naturally leads to the right lifetime of O(10^26) seconds.Comment: the version accepted by Progress of Theoretical Physics (PTP
Quantum discord bounds the amount of distributed entanglement
The ability to distribute quantum entanglement is a prerequisite for many
fundamental tests of quantum theory and numerous quantum information protocols.
Two distant parties can increase the amount of entanglement between them by
means of quantum communication encoded in a carrier that is sent from one party
to the other. Intriguingly, entanglement can be increased even when the
exchanged carrier is not entangled with the parties. However, in light of the
defining property of entanglement stating that it cannot increase under
classical communication, the carrier must be quantum. Here we show that, in
general, the increase of relative entropy of entanglement between two remote
parties is bounded by the amount of non-classical correlations of the carrier
with the parties as quantified by the relative entropy of discord. We study
implications of this bound, provide new examples of entanglement distribution
via unentangled states and put further limits on this phenomenon.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, RevTeX4; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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Probing Variant Axion Models at LHC
We study collider implications of variant axion models which naturally avoid
the cosmological domain wall problem. We find that in such models the branching
ratio of can be enhanced by a factor of 5 up to 30 as
compared with the standard model prediction. The process
is therefore a promising channel to discover a light Higgs boson at the LHC and
to probe the Peccei-Quinn charge assignment of the standard model fields from
Yukawa interactions.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
More on volume dependence of spectral weight function
Spectral weight functions are easily obtained from two-point correlation
functions and they might be used to distinguish single-particle from
multi-particle states in a finite-volume lattice calculation, a problem crucial
for many lattice QCD simulations. In previous studies, it is shown that the
spectral weight function for a broad resonance shares the typical volume
dependence of a two-particle scattering state i.e. proportional to in a
large cubic box of size while the narrow resonance case requires further
investigation. In this paper, a generalized formula is found for the spectral
weight function which incorporates both narrow and broad resonance cases.
Within L\"uscher's formalism, it is shown that the volume dependence of the
spectral weight function exhibits a single-particle behavior for a extremely
narrow resonance and a two-particle behavior for a broad resonance. The
corresponding formulas for both and channels are derived. The
potential application of these formulas in the extraction of resonance
parameters are also discussed
Simulating spin-charge separation with light
In this work we show that stationary light-matter excitations generated
inside a hollow one-dimensional waveguide filled with atoms, can be made to
generate a photonic two-component Lieb Liniger model. We explain how to prepare
and drive the atomic system to a strongly interacting regime where spin-charge
separation could be possible. We then proceed by explaining how to measure the
corresponding effective spin and charge densities and velocities through
standard optical methods based in measuring dynamically the emitted photon
intensities or by analyzing the photon spectrum. The relevant interactions
exhibit the necessary tunability both to generate and efficiently observe spin
charge separation with current technology.Comment: 4 pages. Comments welcom
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