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Viscosity of gauge theory plasma with a chemical potential from AdS/CFT correspondence
We compute the strong coupling limit of the shear viscosity for the N=4
super-Yang-Mill theory with a chemical potential. We use the five-dimensional
Reissner-Nordstrom-anti-deSitter black hole, so the chemical potential is the
one for the R-charges U(1)_R^3. We compute the quasinormal frequencies of the
gravitational and electromagnetic vector perturbations in the background
numerically. This enables one to explicitly locate the diffusion pole for the
shear viscosity. The ratio of the shear viscosity eta to the entropy density s
is eta/s=1/(4pi) within numerical errors, which is the same result as the one
without chemical potential.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, ReVTeX4; v2: minor improvements; v3:
explanations added and improved; v4: version to appear in PR
The universe out of a monopole in the laboratory?
To explore the possibility that an inflationary universe can be created out
of a stable particle in the laboratory, we consider the classical and quantum
dynamics of a magnetic monopole in the thin-shell approximation. Classically
there are three types of solutions: stable, collapsing and inflating monopoles.
We argue that the transition from a stable monopole to an inflating one could
occur either by collision with a domain wall or by quantum tunneling.Comment: to appear in Phys. Rev. D with changing title into "Is it possible to
create a universe out of a monopole in the laboratory?", text and figures
revised, 21 pages, 6 figure
Ground state of an distorted diamond chain - model of
We study the ground state of the model Hamiltonian of the trimerized
quantum Heisenberg chain in which
the non-magnetic ground state is observed recently. This model consists of
stacked trimers and has three kinds of coupling constants between spins; the
intra-trimer coupling constant and the inter-trimer coupling constants
and . All of these constants are assumed to be antiferromagnetic. By
use of the analytical method and physical considerations, we show that there
are three phases on the plane (, ), the dimer phase, the spin fluid phase
and the ferrimagnetic phase. The dimer phase is caused by the frustration
effect. In the dimer phase, there exists the excitation gap between the
two-fold degenerate ground state and the first excited state, which explains
the non-magnetic ground state observed in . We also obtain the phase diagram on the
plane from the numerical diagonalization data for finite systems by use of the
Lanczos algorithm.Comment: LaTeX2e, 15 pages, 21 eps figures, typos corrected, slightly detailed
explanation adde
Comment on ``Local dimer-adatom stacking fault structures from 3x3 to 13x13 along Si(111)-7x7 domain boundaries''
Zhao et al. [Phys.Rev.B 58, 13824 (1998)] depicted several atomic structures
of domain boundaries on a Si(111) surface and criticized the article by the
present author and the co-workers. I will point out that their criticism is
incorrect and their structure models have no consistency.Comment: 2 pages. Physical Review B, to appea
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