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Dynamical Gauge Boson and Strong-Weak Reciprocity
It is proposed that asymptotically nonfree gauge theories are consistently
interpreted as theories of composite gauge bosons. It is argued that when
hidden local symmetry is introduced, masslessness and coupling universality of
dynamically generated gauge boson are ensured. To illustrate these ideas we
take a four dimensional Grassmannian sigma model as an example and show that
the model should be regarded as a cut-off theory and there is a critical
coupling at which the hidden local symmetry is restored. Propagator and vertex
functions of the gauge field are calculated explicitly and existence of the
massless pole is shown. The beta function determined from the factor of
the dynamically generated gauge boson coincides with that of an asymptotic
nonfree elementary gauge theory. Using these theoretical machinery we construct
a model in which asymptotic free and nonfree gauge bosons coexist and their
running couplings are related by the reciprocally proportional relation.Comment: 19 pages, latex, 6 eps figures, a numbers of corrections are made in
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Analysis of 2D THz-Raman spectroscopy using a non-Markovian Brownian oscillator model with nonlinear system-bath interactions
We explore and describe the roles of inter-molecular vibrations employing a
Brownian oscillator (BO) model with linear-linear (LL) and square-linear (SL)
system-bath interactions, which we use to analyze two-dimensional (2D)
THz-Raman spectra obtained by means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In
addition to linear absorption (1D IR), we calculated 2D Raman-THz-THz,
THz-Raman-THz, and THz-THz-Raman signals for liquid formamide, water, and
methanol using an equilibrium non-equilibrium hybrid MD simulation. The
calculated 1D IR and 2D THz-Raman signals are compared with results obtained
from the LL+SL BO model applied through use of hierarchal Fokker-Planck
equations with non-perturbative and non-Markovian noise. We find that all of
the qualitative features of the 2D profiles of the signals obtained from the MD
simulations are reproduced with the LL+SL BO model, indicating that this model
captures the essential features of the inter-molecular motion. We analyze the
fitted 2D profiles in terms of anharmonicity, nonlinear polarizability, and
dephasing time. The origins of the echo peaks of the librational motion and the
elongated peaks parallel to the probe direction are elucidated using optical
Liouville paths.Comment: 37 pages with 14 figures and 3 table
Reduced hierarchy equations of motion approach with Drude plus Brownian spectral distribution: Probing electron transfer processes by means of two- dimensionalcorrelation spectroscopy
We theoretically investigate an electron transfer (ET) process in a
dissipative environment by means of two-dimensional (2D) correlation
spectroscopy. We extend the reduced hierarchy equations of motion approach to
include both overdamped Drude and underdamped Brownian modes. While the
overdamped mode describes the inhomogeneity of a system in the slow modulation
limit, the underdamped mode expresses the primary vibrational mode coupled with
the electronic states. We outline a procedure for calculating 2D correlation
spectrum that incorporates the ET processes. The present approach has the
capability of dealing with system-bath coherence under an external
perturbation, which is important to calculate nonlinear response functions for
non-Markovian noise. The calculated 2D spectrum exhibits the effects of the ET
processes through the presence of ET transition peaks along the
axis, as well as the decay of echo signals.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures; J. Chem. Phys. 137 (2012
Role of non-collective excitations in heavy-ion fusion reactions and quasi-elastic scattering around the Coulomb barrier
Despite the supposed simplicity of double-closed shell nuclei, conventional
coupled-channels calculations, that include all of the known collective states
of the target and projectile, give a poor fit to the fusion cross section for
the O + Pb system. The discrepancies are highlighted through the
experimental barrier distribution and logarithmic derivative, that are both
well defined by the precise experimental fusion data available. In order to
broaden our search for possible causes for this anomaly, we revisit this system
and include in our calculations a large number of non-collective states of the
target, whose spin, parity, excitation energy and deformation paramter are
known from high-precision proton inelastic-scattering measurements. Although
the new coupled-channels calculations modify the barrier distribution, the
disagreemnt with experiment remains both for fusion and for quasi-elastic (QE)
scattering. We find that the Q-value distributions for large-angle QE
scattering become rapidly more important as the incident energy increases,
reflecting the trend of the experimental data. The mass-number dependence of
the non-collective excitations is discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Iterative solution of a Dirac equation with inverse Hamiltonian method
We solve a singe-particle Dirac equation with Woods-Saxon potentials using an
iterative method in the coordinate space representation. By maximizing the
expectation value of the inverse of the Dirac Hamiltonian, this method avoids
the variational collapse, in which an iterative solution dives into the Dirac
sea. We demonstrate that this method works efficiently, reproducing the exact
solutions of the Dirac equation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Correlated fluctuations in the exciton dynamics and spectroscopy of DNA
The absorption of ultraviolet light creates excitations in DNA, which
subsequently start moving in the helix. Their fate is important for an
understanding of photo damage, and is determined by the interplay of electronic
couplings between bases and the structure of the DNA environment. We model the
effect of dynamical fluctuations in the environment and study correlation,
which is present when multiple base pairs interact with the same mode in the
environment. We find that the correlations strongly affect the exciton
dynamics, and show how they are observed in the decay of the anisotropy as a
function of a coherence and a population time in a non-linear optical
experiment
An extension of Fourier analysis for the n-torus in the magnetic field and its application to spectral analysis of the magnetic Laplacian
We solved the Schr{\"o}dinger equation for a particle in a uniform magnetic
field in the n-dimensional torus. We obtained a complete set of solutions for a
broad class of problems; the torus T^n = R^n / {\Lambda} is defined as a
quotient of the Euclidean space R^n by an arbitrary n-dimensional lattice
{\Lambda}. The lattice is not necessary either cubic or rectangular. The
magnetic field is also arbitrary. However, we restrict ourselves within
potential-free problems; the Schr{\"o}dinger operator is assumed to be the
Laplace operator defined with the covariant derivative. We defined an algebra
that characterizes the symmetry of the Laplacian and named it the magnetic
algebra. We proved that the space of functions on which the Laplacian acts is
an irreducible representation space of the magnetic algebra. In this sense the
magnetic algebra completely characterizes the quantum mechanics in the magnetic
torus. We developed a new method for Fourier analysis for the magnetic torus
and used it to solve the eigenvalue problem of the Laplacian. All the
eigenfunctions are given in explicit forms.Comment: 32 pages, LaTeX, minor corrections are mad
Hierarchical Equations of Motion Approach to Quantum Thermodynamics
We present a theoretical framework to investigate quantum thermodynamic
processes under non-Markovian system-bath interactions on the basis of the
hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) approach, which is convenient to carry
out numerically "exact" calculations. This formalism is valuable because it can
be used to treat not only strong system-bath coupling but also system-bath
correlation or entanglement, which will be essential to characterize the heat
transport between the system and quantum heat baths. Using this formalism, we
demonstrated an importance of the thermodynamic effect from the tri-partite
correlations (TPC) for a two-level heat transfer model and a three-level
autonomous heat engine model under the conditions that the conventional quantum
master equation approaches are failed. Our numerical calculations show that TPC
contributions, which distinguish the heat current from the energy current, have
to be take into account to satisfy the thermodynamic laws.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures. As a chapter of: F. Binder, L. A. Correa, C.
Gogolin, J. Anders, and G. Adesso (eds.), "Thermodynamics in the quantum
regime - Recent Progress and Outlook", (Springer International Publishing
Direct observation of the proliferation of ferroelectric loop domains and vortex-antivortex pairs
We discovered "stripe" patterns of trimerization-ferroelectric domains in
hexagonal REMnO3 (RE=Ho, ---, Lu) crystals (grown below ferroelectric
transition temperatures (Tc), reaching up to 1435 oC), in contrast with the
vortex patterns in YMnO3. These stripe patterns roughen with the appearance of
numerous loop domains through thermal annealing just below Tc, but the stripe
domain patterns turn to vortex-antivortex domain patterns through a freezing
process when crystals cross Tc even though the phase transition appears not to
be Kosterlitz-Thouless-type. The experimental systematics are compared with the
results of our six-state clock model simulation and also the Kibble-Zurek
Mechanism for trapped topological defects
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