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Nonrelativistic conformal field theories
We study representations of the Schr\"odinger algebra in terms of operators
in nonrelativistic conformal field theories. We prove a correspondence between
primary operators and eigenstates of few-body systems in a harmonic potential.
Using the correspondence we compute analytically the energy of fermions at
unitarity in a harmonic potential near two and four spatial dimensions. We also
compute the energy of anyons in a harmonic potential near the bosonic and
fermionic limits.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures; added a comment on the convergence of epsilon
expansion
Ab initio derivation of electronic low-energy models for C60 and aromatic compounds
We present a systematic study for understanding the relation between
electronic correlation and superconductivity in C60 and aromatic compounds. We
derived, from first principles, extended Hubbard models for twelve compounds;
fcc K3C60, Rb3C60, Cs3C60 (with three different lattice constants), A15 Cs3C60
(with four different lattice constants), doped solid picene, coronene, and
phenanthrene. We show that these compounds are strongly correlated and have a
similar energy scale of the bandwidth and interaction parameters. However, they
have a different trend in the relation between the strength of electronic
correlation and superconducting transition temperature; while the C60 compounds
have a positive correlation, the aromatic compounds exhibit negative
correlation.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, 7 table
Formation of Protoplanets from Massive Planetesimals in Binary Systems
More than half of stars reside in binary or multiple star systems and many
planets have been found in binary systems. From theoretical point of view,
however, whether or not the planetary formation proceeds in a binary system is
a very complex problem, because secular perturbation from the companion star
can easily stir up the eccentricity of the planetesimals and cause
high-velocity, destructive collisions between planetesimals. Early stage of
planetary formation process in binary systems has been studied by restricted
three-body approach with gas drag and it is commonly accepted that accretion of
planetesimals can proceed due to orbital phasing by gas drag. However, the gas
drag becomes less effective as the planetesimals become massive. Therefore it
is still uncertain whether the collision velocity remains small and planetary
accretion can proceed, once the planetesimals become massive. We performed {\it
N}-body simulations of planetary formation in binary systems starting from
massive planetesimals whose size is about 100-500 km. We found that the
eccentricity vectors of planetesimals quickly converge to the forced
eccentricity due to the coupling of the perturbation of the companion and the
mutual interaction of planetesimals if the initial disk model is sufficiently
wide in radial distribution. This convergence decreases the collision velocity
and as a result accretion can proceed much in the same way as in isolated
systems. The basic processes of the planetary formation, such as runaway growth
and oligarchic growth and final configuration of the protoplanets are
essentially the same in binary systems and single star systems, at least in the
late stage where the effect of gas drag is small.Comment: 26pages, 11 figures. ApJ accepte
Pairing instabilities in quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gases
We study non-equilibrium dynamics of ultracold two-component Fermi gases in
low-dimensional geometries after the interactions are quenched from weakly
interacting to strongly interacting regime. We develop a T-matrix formalism
that takes into account the interplay between Pauli blocking and tight
confinement in low-dimensional geometries. We employ our formalism to study the
formation of molecules in quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gases near Feshbach
resonance and show that the rate at which molecules form depends strongly on
the transverse confinement. Furthermore, Pauli blocking gives rise to a sizable
correction to the binding energy of molecules.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Universal four-component Fermi gas in one dimension
A four-component Fermi gas in one dimension with a short-range four-body
interaction is shown to exhibit a one-dimensional analog of the BCS-BEC
crossover. Its low-energy physics is governed by a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
with three spin gaps. The spin gaps are exponentially small in the weak
coupling (BCS) limit where they arise from the charge-density-wave instability,
and become large in the strong coupling (BEC) limit because of the formation of
tightly-bound tetramers. We investigate the ground-state energy, the sound
velocity, and the gap spectrum in the BCS-BEC crossover and discuss exact
relationships valid in our system. We also show that a one-dimensional analog
of the Efimov effect occurs for five bosons while it is absent for fermions.
Our work opens up a very rich new field of universal few-body and many-body
physics in one dimension.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures; (v2) Efimov effect for 5 bosons in 1D is
discussed; (v3) expanded versio
A fundamental test for stellar feedback recipes in galaxy simulations
Direct comparisons between galaxy simulations and observations that both
reach scales < 100 pc are strong tools to investigate the cloud-scale physics
of star formation and feedback in nearby galaxies. Here we carry out such a
comparison for hydrodynamical simulations of a Milky Way-like galaxy, including
stochastic star formation, HII region and supernova feedback, and chemical
post-processing at 8 pc resolution. Our simulation shows excellent agreement
with almost all kpc-scale and larger observables, including total star
formation rates, radial profiles of CO, HI, and star formation through the
galactic disc, mass ratios of the ISM components, both whole-galaxy and
resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt relations, and giant molecular cloud properties.
However, we find that our simulation does not reproduce the observed
de-correlation between tracers of gas and star formation on < 100 pc scales,
known as the star formation 'uncertainty principle', which indicates that
observed clouds undergo rapid evolutionary lifecycles. We conclude that the
discrepancy is driven by insufficiently-strong pre-supernova feedback in our
simulation, which does not disperse the surrounding gas completely, leaving
star formation tracer emission too strongly associated with molecular gas
tracer emission, inconsistent with observations. This result implies that the
cloud-scale de-correlation of gas and star formation is a fundamental test for
feedback prescriptions in galaxy simulations, one that can fail even in
simulations that reproduce all other macroscopic properties of star-forming
galaxies.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
One loop renormalization for the axial Ward-Takahashi identity in Domain-wall QCD
We calculate one-loop correction to the axial Ward-Takahashi identity given
by Furman and Shamir in domain-wall QCD. It is shown perturbatively that the
renormalized axial Ward-Takahashi identity is satisfied without fine tuning and
the ``conserved'' axial current receives no renormalization, giving .
This fact will simplify the calculation of the pion decay constant in numerical
simulations since the decay constant defined by this current needs no lattice
renormalization factor.Comment: 16 pages, 3 axodraw.sty figure
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