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. (minor changes: reformatted

Spectral properties of a spin-incoherent Luttinger Liquid

We present time-dependent density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) results for strongly interacting one dimensional fermionic systems at finite temperature. When interactions are strong the characteristic spin energy can be greatly suppressed relative to the characteristic charge energy, allowing for the possibility of spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid physics when the temperature is high compared to the spin energy, but small compared to the charge energy. Using DMRG we compute the spectral properties of the $t-J$ model at arbitrary temperatures with respect to both spin and charge energies. We study the full crossover from the Luttinger liquid regime to the spin-incoherent regime,focusing on small $J/t$, where the signatures of spin-incoherent behavior are more manifest. Our method allows us to access the analytically intractable regime where temperature is of the order of the spin energy, $T\sim J$. Our results should be helpful in the interpretation of experiments that may be in the crossover regime, $T\sim J$, and apply to one-dimensional cold atomic gases where finite-temperature effects are appreciable. The technique may also be used to guide the development of analytical approximations for the crossover regime.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Color superconducting 2SC+s quark matter and gapless modes at finite temperatures

We investigate the phase diagram of color superconducting quark matter with strange quarks (2SC+s quark matter) in beta equliibrium at zero as well as finite temperatures within a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The variational method as used here allows us to investigate simultaneous formation of condensates in quark--antiquark as well as in diquark channels. Color and electric charge neutrality conditions are imposed in the calculation of the thermodynamic potential. Medium dependance of strange quark mass plays a sensitve role in maintaining charge neutrality conditions. At zero temperature the system goes from gapless phase to usual BCS phase through an intermediate normal phase as density is increased. The gapless modes show a smooth behaviour with respect to temperature vanishing above a critical temperature which is larger than the BCS transition temperature. We observe a sharp transition from gapless superconducting phase to the BCS phase as density is increased for the color neutral matter at zero temperature. As temperature is increased this however becomes a smooth transition.Comment: 18 pages, 14 figure

STUDY ON DEVELOPMENTS OF BODY COMPOSITION AND PHYSICAL FITNESS FOR A YEAR IN JAPANESE ADOLESCENT TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES

It is well known that physical fitness develops with the increased muscle thickness in adolescent boys especially from 16 to 18 years. Fukunaga et al. (1989) investigated the developments of body composition in Japanese boys and girls, and revealed that the muscle and fat cross sectional area increased with age from 16 to 18 years. Seefeldt et al. (1986) had reported that vertical jump height and maximal running velocity improved linearly with age from 5 to 18 years in boys who had no habitual physical training. However, no studies have investigated development of physical fitness of adolescent athletes. In addition, duration of measurement of longitudinal studies was a year basically. It is necessary to assess physical fitness several times within a year.The purpose of this study was to investigate developments of body composition and physical fitness in Japanese adolescent track and field athletes

Noncommutative Thermofield Dynamics

The real-time operator formalism for thermal quantum field theories, thermofield dynamics, is formulated in terms of a path-integral approach in non-commutative spaces. As an application, the two-point function for a thermal non-commutative $\lambda \phi^4$ theory is derived at the one-loop level. The effect of temperature and the non-commutative parameter, competing with one another, is analyzed.Comment: 13 pages; to be published in IJMP-A

TFD Approach to Bosonic Strings and DPD_{P}-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 $D_{p}$-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 $D_{p}$-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

The unmasking of thermal Goldstone bosons

The problem of extracting the modes of Goldstone bosons from a thermal background is reconsidered in the framework of relativistic quantum field theory. It is shown that in the case of spontaneous breakdown of an internal bosonic symmetry a recently established decomposition of thermal correlation functions contains certain specific contributions which can be attributed to a particle of zero mass.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX; new and considerably strengthened results after Eq. (14); to appear in Phys. Rev.

Two-Dimensional Order and Disorder Thermofields

The main objective of this paper was to obtain the two-dimensional order and disorder thermal operators using the Thermofield Bosonization formalism. We show that the general property of the two-dimensional world according with the bosonized Fermi field at zero temperature can be constructed as a product of an order and a disorder variables which satisfy a dual field algebra holds at finite temperature. The general correlation functions of the order and disorder thermofields are obtained.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 $J_1-J_2$ 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

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