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Tunneling-induced restoration of classical degeneracy in quantum kagome ice
Quantum effect is expected to dictate the behavior of physical systems at low temperature. For quantum magnets with geometrical frustration, quantum fluctuation usually lifts the macroscopic classical degeneracy, and exotic quantum states emerge. However, how different types of quantum processes entangle wave functions in a constrained Hilbert space is not well understood. Here, we study the topological entanglement entropy and the thermal entropy of a quantum ice model on a geometrically frustrated kagome lattice. We find that the system does not show a Z(2) topological order down to extremely low temperature, yet continues to behave like a classical kagome ice with finite residual entropy. Our theoretical analysis indicates an intricate competition of off-diagonal and diagonal quantum processes leading to the quasidegeneracy of states and effectively, the classical degeneracy is restored
Shock Waves in Solid Craters
Shock waves in solid craters and effects of high speed impact of particles on space vehicle
Limits of sympathetic cooling of fermions: The role of the heat capacity of the coolant
The sympathetic cooling of an initially degenerate Fermi gas by either an
ideal Bose gas below or an ideal Boltzmann gas is investigated. It is
shown that the efficiency of cooling by a Bose gas below is by no means
reduced when its heat capacity becomes much less than that of the Fermi gas,
where efficiency is measured by the decrease in the temperature of the Fermi
gas per number of particles evaporated from the coolant. This contradicts the
intuitive idea that an efficient coolant must have a large heat capacity. In
contrast, for a Boltzmann gas a minimal value of the ratio of the heat
capacities is indeed necessary to achieve T=0 and all of the particles must be
evaporated.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
N K and Delta K states in the chiral SU(3) quark model
The isospin I=0 and I=1 kaon-nucleon , , , wave phase shifts are
studied in the chiral SU(3) quark model by solving the resonating group method
(RGM) equation. The calculated phase shifts for different partial waves are in
agreement with the experimental data. Furthermore, the structures of the
states with L=0, I=1 and I=2 are investigated. We find that the
interaction between and in the case of L=0, I=1 is attractive,
which is not like the situation of the system, where the -wave
interactions between and for both I=0 and I=1 are repulsive. Our
numerical results also show that when the model parameters are taken to be the
same as in our previous and scattering calculations, the
state with L=0 and I=1 is a weakly bound state with about 2 MeV binding energy,
while the one with I=2 is unbound in the present one-channel calculation.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. PRC70,064004(2004
Fireball/Blastwave Model and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters
Soft gamma-ray repeaters are at determined distances and their positions are
known accurately. If observed, afterglows from their soft gamma-ray bursts will
provide important clues to the study of the so called "classical gamma-ray
bursts". On applying the popular fireball/blastwave model of classical
gamma-ray bursts to soft gamma-ray repeaters, it is found that their X-ray and
optical afterglows are detectable. Monitoring of the three repeaters is
solicited.Comment: Already published in 1998 in "Chinese Physics Letters", replaced with
the published version. See astro-ph/0502452 for a more detailed versio
GRB afterglows: deep Newtonian phase and its application
Gamma-ray burst afterglows have been observed for months or even years in a
few cases. It deserves noting that at such late stages, the remnants should
have entered the deep Newtonian phase, during which the majority of
shock-accelerated electrons will no longer be highly relativistic. To calculate
the afterglows, we must assume that the electrons obey a power-law distribution
according to their kinetic energy, not simply the Lorentz factor.Comment: Poster at the 4th workshop "Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era"
(Rome, 2004), accepted for publication in the proceedings. 4 pages, with 3
figures inserte
The tensor structure on the representation category of the triplet algebra
We study the braided monoidal structure that the fusion product induces on
the abelian category -mod, the category of representations of
the triplet -algebra . The -algebras are a
family of vertex operator algebras that form the simplest known examples of
symmetry algebras of logarithmic conformal field theories. We formalise the
methods for computing fusion products, developed by Nahm, Gaberdiel and Kausch,
that are widely used in the physics literature and illustrate a systematic
approach to calculating fusion products in non-semi-simple representation
categories. We apply these methods to the braided monoidal structure of
-mod, previously constructed by Huang, Lepowsky and Zhang, to
prove that this braided monoidal structure is rigid. The rigidity of
-mod allows us to prove explicit formulae for the fusion product
on the set of all simple and all projective -modules, which were
first conjectured by Fuchs, Hwang, Semikhatov and Tipunin; and Gaberdiel and
Runkel.Comment: 58 pages; edit: added references and revisions according to referee
reports. Version to appear on J. Phys.
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