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High density QCD with static quarks
We study lattice QCD in the limit that the quark mass and chemical potential
are simultaneously made large, resulting in a controllable density of quarks
which do not move. This is similar in spirit to the quenched approximation for
zero density QCD. In this approximation we find that the deconfinement
transition seen at zero density becomes a smooth crossover at any nonzero
density, and that at low enough temperature chiral symmetry remains broken at
all densities.Comment: LaTeX, 18 pages, uses epsf.sty, postscript figures include
Hadron Spectrum in QCD with Valence Wilson Fermions and Dynamical Staggered Fermions at $6/g^2=5.6
We present an analysis of hadronic spectroscopy for Wilson valence quarks
with dynamical staggered fermions at lattice coupling at
sea quark mass and 0.025, and of Wilson valence quarks in quenched
approximation at and 5.95, both on lattices. We
make comparisons with our previous results with dynamical staggered fermions at
the same parameter values but on lattices doubled in the temporal
direction.Comment: 32 page
Effects of spatial size, lattice doubling and source operator on the hadron spectrum with dynamical staggered quarks
We have extended our previous study of the lattice QCD spectrum with 2
flavors of staggered dynamical quarks at and and 0.01
to larger lattices, with better statistics and with additional sources for the
propagators. The additional sources allowed us to estimate the mass
and to measure the masses of all mesons whose operators are local in time.
These mesons show good evidence for flavor symmetry restoration, except for the
masses of the Goldstone and non-Goldstone pions. PCAC is observed in that
, and is estimated. Use of undoubled lattices
removes problems with the pion propagator found in our earlier work. Previously
we found a large change in the nucleon mass at a quark mass of when
we increased the spatial size from 12 to 16. No such effect is observed at the
larger quark mass, . Two kinds of wall source were used, and we
have found difficulties in getting consistent results for the nucleon mass
between the two sources.Comment: 30 pages PostScript fil
The intrinsic strangeness and charm of the nucleon using improved staggered fermions
We calculate the intrinsic strangeness of the nucleon, - ,
using the MILC library of improved staggered gauge configurations using the
Asqtad and HISQ actions. Additionally, we present a preliminary calculation of
the intrinsic charm of the nucleon using the HISQ action with dynamical charm.
The calculation is done with a method which incorporates features of both
commonly-used methods, the direct evaluation of the three-point function and
the application of the Feynman- Hellman theorem. We present an improvement on
this method that further reduces the statistical error, and check the result
from this hybrid method against the other two methods and find that they are
consistent. The values for and found here, together with
perturbative results for heavy quarks, show that dark matter scattering through
Higgs-like exchange receives roughly equal contributions from all heavy quark
flavors.Comment: 17 pages, 14 figure
Nature of segregation of reactants in diffusion controlled A+B reactions: Role of mobility in forming compact clusters
We investigate the A+B=0 bimolecular chemical reaction taking place in
low-dimensional spaces when the mobilities of the two reacting species are not
equal. While the case of different reactant mobilities has been previously
reported as not affecting the scaling of the reactant densities with time, but
only the pre-exponential factor, the mechanism for this had not been explained
before. By using Monte-Carlo simulations we show that the nature of segregation
is very different when compared to the normal case of equal reactant
mobilities. The clusters of the mobile species are statistically homogeneous
and randomly distributed in space, but the clusters of the less mobile species
are much more compact and restricted in space. Due to the asymmetric
mobilities, the initial symmetric random density fluctuations in time turn into
asymmetric density fluctuations. We explain this trend by calculating the
correlation functions for the positions of particles for the several different
cases
Roughness and multiscaling of planar crack fronts
We consider numerically the roughness of a planar crack front within the
long-range elastic string model, with a tunable disorder correlation length
. The problem is shown to have two important length scales, and the
Larkin length . Multiscaling of the crack front is observed for scales
below , provided that the disorder is strong enough. The asymptotic
scaling with a roughness exponent is recovered for scales
larger than both and . If , these regimes are separated
by a third regime characterized by the Larkin exponent .
We discuss the experimental implications of our results.Comment: 8 pages, two figure
Fracture Roughness Scaling: a case study on planar cracks
Using a multi-resolution technique, we analyze large in-plane fracture fronts
moving slowly between two sintered Plexiglas plates. We find that the roughness
of the front exhibits two distinct regimes separated by a crossover length
scale . Below , we observe a multi-affine regime and the
measured roughness exponent is in
agreement with the coalescence model. Above , the fronts are
mono-affine, characterized by a roughness exponent , consistent with the fluctuating line model. We relate the
crossover length scale to fluctuations in fracture toughness and the stress
intensity factor
Asymptotic behavior of A + B --> inert for particles with a drift
We consider the asymptotic behavior of the (one dimensional) two-species
annihilation reaction A + B --> 0, where both species have a uniform drift in
the same direction and like species have a hard core exclusion. Extensive
numerical simulations show that starting with an initially random distribution
of A's and B's at equal concentration the density decays like t^{-1/3} for long
times. This process is thus in a different universality class from the cases
without drift or with drift in different directions for the different species.Comment: LaTeX, 6pp including 3 figures in LaTeX picture mod
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