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Coordination and Social Learning
This paper studies the interaction between coordination and social learning in a dynamic regime change game. Social learning provides public information to which players overreact due to the coordination motive. So coordination affects the aggregation of private signals through players' optimal choices. Such endogenous provision of public information results in inefficient herds with positive probability, even though private signals have an unbounded likelihood ratio property. Therefore, social learning is a source of coordination failure. An extension shows that if players could individually learn, inefficient herding disappears, and thus coordination is successful almost surely. This paper also demonstrates that along the same history, the belief convergence differs in different equilibria. Finally, social learning can lead to higher social welfare when the fundamentals are bad.Coordination, social learning, inefficient herding, dynamic global game, common belief
Probing the baryogenesis and dark matter relaxed in phase transition by gravitational waves and colliders
The cosmological phase transition with Q-balls production mechanism can
explain the baryogenesis and dark matter simultaneously, where constraints on
dark matter masses and reverse dilution are significantly relaxed. We study how
to probe this scenario by collider signals at QCD next-to-leading order and
gravitational wave signals.Comment: 22 pages,9 figures,4 tables, published in Phys.Rev.
Electroweak baryogenesis in the framework of the effective field theory
We study the electroweak baryogenesis in the framework of the effective field
theory. Our study shows that by introducing a light singlet scalar particle and
a dimension-5 operator, it can provide the strong first order phase transition
and the source of the CP-violation during the phase transition, and then
produce abundant particle phenomenology at zero temperature. We also show the
constraints on the new physics scale from the observed baryon-to-photon ratio,
the low-energy experiments, and the LHC data.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; version published in Phys.Rev.
Series of Concentration-Induced Phase Transitions in Cholesterol/Phosphatidylcholine Mixtures
In lipid membranes, temperature-induced transition from gel-to-fluid phase increases the lateral diffusion of the lipid molecules by three orders of magnitude. In cell membranes, a similar phase change may trigger the communication between the membrane components. Here concentration-induced phase transition properties of our recently developed statistical mechanical model of cholesterol/phospholipid mixtures are investigated. A slight (<1%) decrease in the model parameter values, controlling the lateral interaction energies, reveals the existence of a series of first- or second-order phase transitions. By weakening the lateral interactions first, the proportion of the ordered (i.e., superlattice) phase (Areg) is slightly and continuously decreasing at every cholesterol mole fraction. Then sudden decreases in Areg appear at the 0.18–0.26 range of cholesterol mole fractions. We point out that the sudden changes in Areg represent first- or second-order concentration-induced phase transitions from fluid to superlattice and from superlattice to fluid phase. Sudden changes like these were detected in our previous experiments at 0.2, 0.222, and 0.25 sterol mole fractions in ergosterol/DMPC mixtures. By further decreasing the lateral interactions, the fluid phase will dominate throughout the 0.18–0.26 interval, whereas outside this interval sudden increases in Areg may appear. Lipid composition-induced phase transitions as specified here should have far more important biological implications than temperature- or pressure-induced phase transitions. This is the case because temperature and pressure in cell membranes are largely invariant under physiological conditions
Anomalous Nonlocal Resistance and Spin-charge Conversion Mechanisms in Two-Dimensional Metals
We uncover two anomalous features in the nonlocal transport behavior of
two-dimensional metallic materials with spin-orbit coupling. Firstly, the
nonlocal resistance can have negative values and oscillate with distance, even
in the absence of a magnetic field. Secondly, the oscillations of the nonlocal
resistance under an applied in-plane magnetic field (Hanle effect) can be
asymmetric under field reversal. Both features are produced by direct
magnetoelectric coupling, which is possible in materials with broken inversion
symmetry but was not included in previous spin diffusion theories of nonlocal
transport. These effects can be used to identify the relative contributions of
different spin-charge conversion mechanisms. They should be observable in
adatom-functionalized graphene, and may provide the reason for discrepancies in
recent nonlocal transport experiments on graphene.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, and Supplementary Materials, to appear in Phys.
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