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Phase structure and chiral limit of compact lattice QED with Wilson fermions
We study the phase structure and chiral limit of compact lattice QED
with Wilson fermions (both dynamical and quenched). We use the standard Wilson
action (WA) and also the modified action (MA) with some lattice artifacts
suppressed. We show that lattice artifacts influence the distributions of
eigenvalues of the fermionic matrix especially for small values
of . Our main conclusion is that the chiral limit of compact QED
can be efficiently located using different techniques. Sorry, figures are not
included and can be sent by ordinary mail or Fax.Comment: TALK GIVEN AT THE LATTICE '93 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM LATTICE FIELD
THEORY, DALLAS, USA, OCTOBER 12--16, 1993 3 page
Remnant Fermi surface in the presence of an underlying instability in layered 1T-TaS_2
We report high resolution angle-scanned photoemission and Fermi surface (FS)
mapping experiments on the layered transition-metal dichalcogenide 1T-TaS_2 in
the quasi commensurate (QC) and the commensurate (C) charge-density-wave (CDW)
phase. Instead of a nesting induced partially removed FS in the CDW phase we
find a pseudogap over large portions of the FS. This remnant FS exhibits the
symmetry of the one-particle normal state FS even when passing from the
QC-phase to the C-phase. Possibly, this Mott localization induced transition
represents the underlying instability responsible for the pseudogapped FS
Preconditioning of Improved and ``Perfect'' Fermion Actions
We construct a locally-lexicographic SSOR preconditioner to accelerate the
parallel iterative solution of linear systems of equations for two improved
discretizations of lattice fermions: the Sheikholeslami-Wohlert scheme where a
non-constant block-diagonal term is added to the Wilson fermion matrix and
renormalization group improved actions which incorporate couplings beyond
nearest neighbors of the lattice fermion fields. In case (i) we find the block
llssor-scheme to be more effective by a factor about 2 than odd-even
preconditioned solvers in terms of convergence rates, at beta=6.0. For type
(ii) actions, we show that our preconditioner accelerates the iterative
solution of a linear system of hypercube fermions by a factor of 3 to 4.Comment: 27 pages, Latex, 17 Figures include
High Mass Star Formation. II. The Mass Function of Submillimeter Clumps in M17
We have mapped an approximately 5.5 by 5.5 pc portion of the M17 massive
star-forming region in both 850 and 450 micron dust continuum emission using
the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk
Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The maps reveal more than 100 dusty clumps with
deconvolved linear sizes of 0.05--0.2 pc and masses of 0.8--120 solar masses,
most of which are not associated with known mid-infrared point sources. Fitting
the clump mass function with a double power law gives a mean power law exponent
of alpha_high = -2.4 +/- 0.3 for the high-mass power law, consistent with the
exponent of the Salpeter stellar mass function. We show that a lognormal clump
mass distribution with a peak at about 4 solar masses produces as good a fit to
the clump mass function as does a double power law. This 4 solar mass peak mass
is well above the peak masses of both the stellar initial mass function and the
mass function of clumps in low-mass star-forming regions. Despite the
difference in intrinsic mass scale, the shape of the M17 clump mass function
appears to be consistent with the shape of the core mass function in low-mass
star-forming regions. Thus, we suggest that the clump mass function in
high-mass star-forming regions may be a scaled-up version of that in low-mass
regions, instead of its extension to higher masses.Comment: 33 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in the
Astrophysical Journa
Nonresonant inelastic light scattering in the Hubbard model
Inelastic light scattering from electrons is a symmetry-selective probe of
the charge dynamics within correlated materials. Many measurements have been
made on correlated insulators, and recent exact solutions in large dimensions
explain a number of anomalous features found in experiments. Here we focus on
the correlated metal, as described by the Hubbard model away from half filling.
We can determine the B1g Raman response and the inelastic X-ray scattering
along the Brillouin zone diagonal exactly in the large dimensional limit. We
find a number of interesting features in the light scattering response which
should be able to be seen in correlated metals such as the heavy fermions.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, typeset with ReVTe
The Oscillatory Behavior of the High-Temperature Expansion of Dyson's Hierarchical Model: A Renormalization Group Analysis
We calculate 800 coefficients of the high-temperature expansion of the
magnetic susceptibility of Dyson's hierarchical model with a Landau-Ginzburg
measure. Log-periodic corrections to the scaling laws appear as in the case of
a Ising measure. The period of oscillation appears to be a universal quantity
given in good approximation by the logarithm of the largest eigenvalue of the
linearized RG transformation, in agreement with a possibility suggested by K.
Wilson and developed by Niemeijer and van Leeuwen. We estimate to be
1.300 (with a systematic error of the order of 0.002) in good agreement with
the results obtained with other methods such as the -expansion. We
briefly discuss the relationship between the oscillations and the zeros of the
partition function near the critical point in the complex temperature plane.Comment: 21 pages, 10 Postcript figures, latex file, uses revte
Schematic Models for Active Nonlinear Microrheology
We analyze the nonlinear active microrheology of dense colloidal suspensions
using a schematic model of mode-coupling theory. The model describes the
strongly nonlinear behavior of the microscopic friction coefficient as a
function of applied external force in terms of a delocalization transition. To
probe this regime, we have performed Brownian dynamics simulations of a system
of quasi-hard spheres. We also analyze experimental data on hard-sphere-like
colloidal suspensions [Habdas et al., Europhys. Lett., 2004, 67, 477]. The
behavior at very large forces is addressed specifically
Functional renormalization group approach to zero-dimensional interacting systems
We apply the functional renormalization group method to the calculation of
dynamical properties of zero-dimensional interacting quantum systems. As case
studies we discuss the anharmonic oscillator and the single impurity Anderson
model. We truncate the hierarchy of flow equations such that the results are at
least correct up to second order perturbation theory in the coupling. For the
anharmonic oscillator energies and spectra obtained within two different
functional renormalization group schemes are compared to numerically exact
results, perturbation theory, and the mean field approximation. Even at large
coupling the results obtained using the functional renormalization group agree
quite well with the numerical exact solution. The better of the two schemes is
used to calculate spectra of the single impurity Anderson model, which then are
compared to the results of perturbation theory and the numerical
renormalization group. For small to intermediate couplings the functional
renormalization group gives results which are close to the ones obtained using
the very accurate numerical renormalization group method. In particulare the
low-energy scale (Kondo temperature) extracted from the functional
renormalization group results shows the expected behavior.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figures include
A Parallel SSOR Preconditioner for Lattice QCD
A parallelizable SSOR preconditioning scheme for Krylov subspace iterative
solvers in lattice QCD applications involving Wilson fermions is presented. In
actual Hybrid Monte Carlo and quark propagator calculations it helps to reduce
the number of iterations by a factor of 2 compared to conventional odd-even
preconditioning. This corresponds to a gain in cpu-time of 30\% - 70\% over
odd-even preconditioning.Comment: Talk presented at LATTICE96(algorithms), 3 pages, LaTeX file, 3
epsf-files include
Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution
There has recently been great interest in applying theoretical quantitative genetic models to empirical studies of evolution in wild populations. However, while classical models assume environmental constancy, most natural populations exist in variable environments. Here, we applied a novel analytical technique to a long-term study of birthweight in wild sheep and examined, for the first time, how variation in environmental quality simultaneously influences the strength of natural selection and the genetic basis of trait variability. In addition to demonstrating that selection and genetic variance vary dramatically across environments, our results show that environmental heterogeneity induces a negative correlation between these two parameters. Harsh environmental conditions were associated with strong selection for increased birthweight but low genetic variance, and vice versa. Consequently, the potential for microevolution in this population is constrained by either a lack of heritable variation ( in poor environments) or by a reduced strength of selection ( in good environments). More generally, environmental dependence of this nature may act to limit rates of evolution, maintain genetic variance, and favour phenotypic stasis in many natural systems. Assumptions of environmental constancy are likely to be violated in natural systems, and failure to acknowledge this may generate highly misleading expectations for phenotypic microevolution
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