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String Entanglement and D-branes as Pure States
We study the entanglement of closed strings degrees of freedom in order to
investigate the microscopic structure and statistics of objects as D-branes. By
considering the macroscopic pure state (MPS) limit, whenever the entanglement
entropy goes to zero (in such a way that the macroscopic properties of the
state are preserved), we show that boundary states may be recovered in this
limit and, furthermore, the description through closed string (perturbative)
degrees of freedom collapses. We also show how the thermal properties of branes
and closed strings could be described by this model, and it requires that
dissipative effects be taken into account. Extensions of the MPS analysis to
more general systems at finite temperature are finally emphasized.Comment: 14 pages. Minor improvements. Published in Phys. Rev.
No-cloning theorem in thermofield dynamics
We discuss the relation between the no-cloning theorem from quantum
information and the doubling procedure used in the formalism of thermofield
dynamics (TFD). We also discuss how to apply the no-cloning theorem in the
context of thermofield states defined in TFD. Consequences associated to mixed
states, von Neumann entropy and thermofield vacuum are also addressed.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
Squeezed Neutrino Oscillations in Quantum Field Theory
By resorting to recent results on fermion mixing which show that the Fock
space of definite flavor states is unitarily inequivalent to the Fock space of
definite mass states, we discuss the phenomenological implications on the
neutrino oscillation formula. For finite momentum the oscillation amplitude is
depressed, or "squeezed", by a momentum dependent factor. In the relativistic
limit the conventional oscillation formula is recovered.Comment: 12 pages, LaTex, 1 figure ( on request ), in press on Phys. Lett. B.
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Superconductivity in CVD Diamond Thin Film Well-Above Liquid Helium Temperature
Diamond has always been adored as a jewel. Even more fascinating is its
outstanding physical properties; it is the hardest material known in the world
with the highest thermal conductivity. Meanwhile, when we turn to its
electrical properties, diamond is a rather featureless electrical insulator.
However, with boron doping, it becomes a p-type semiconductor, with boron
acting as a charge acceptor. Therefore the recent news of superconductivity in
heavily boron-doped diamond synthesized by high pressure sintering was received
with considerable surprise. Opening up new possibilities for diamond-based
electrical devices, a systematic investigation of these phenomena clearly needs
to be achieved. Here we show unambiguous evidence of superconductivity in a
diamond thin film deposited by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method.
Furthermore the onset of the superconducting transition is found to be 7.4K,
which is higher than the reported value in ref(7) and well above helium liquid
temperature. This finding establishes the superconductivity to be a universal
property of boron-doped diamond, demonstrating that device application is
indeed a feasible challenge.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
TFD Approach to Bosonic Strings and -branes
In this work we explain the construction of the thermal vacuum for the
bosonic string, as well that of the thermal boundary state interpreted as a
-brane at finite temperature. In both case we calculate the respective
entropy using the entropy operator of the Thermo Field Dynamics Theory. We show
that the contribution of the thermal string entropy is explicitly present in
the -brane entropy. Furthermore, we show that the Thermo Field approach
is suitable to introduce temperature in boundary states.Comment: 6 pages, revtex, typos are corrected. Prepared for the Second
Londrina Winter School-Mathematical Methods in Physics, August 25-30, 2002,
Londrina-Pr, Brazil. To appear in a special issue of IJMP
Lepton charge and neutrino mixing in pion decay processes
We consider neutrino mixing and oscillations in quantum field theory and
compute the neutrino lepton charge in decay processes where neutrinos are
generated. We also discuss the proper definition of flavor charge and states
and clarify the issues of the possibility of different mass parameters in field
mixing.Comment: 13 page
Thermal -Brane Boundary States from Green-Schwarz Superstrings
In this paper we thermalize the type II superstrings in the GS formulation by
applying the TFD formalism. The thermal boundary conditions on the thermal
Hilbert space are obtained from the BPS -brane boundary conditions at zero
temperature. We show that thermal boundary states can be obtained by
thermalization from the BPS -branes at zero temperature. These new states
can be interpreted as thermal -branes. Next, we discuss the supersymmetry
breaking of the thermal string in the TFD approach. We identify the broken
supersymmetry with the -transformation while the
-transformation is preserved. Also, we compute the thermal partition
function and the entropy of the thermal string.Comment: 23 pages, LATeX fil
Maximum Entanglement in Squeezed Boson and Fermion States
A class of squeezed boson and fermion states is studied with particular
emphasis on the nature of entanglement. We first investigate the case of
bosons, considering two-mode squeezed states. Then we construct the fermion
version to show that such states are maximum entangled, for both bosons and
fermions. To achieve these results, we demonstrate some relations involving
squeezed boson states. The generalization to the case of fermions is made by
using Grassmann variables.Comment: 4 page
Finite Temperature Density Matrix Renormalization using an enlarged Hilbert space
We apply a generalization of the time-dependent DMRG to study finite
temperature properties of several quantum spin chains, including the frustrated
model. We discuss several practical issues with the method, including
use of quantum numbers and finite size effects. We compare with transfer-matrix
DMRG, finding that both methods produce excellent results.Comment: 4 pages and 4 figure
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