45 research outputs found
Quark-Antiquark Energy Density Function applied to Di-Gauge Boson Production at the LHC
In view of the start up of the 14 TeV pp Large Hadron Collider the quark
anti-quark reactions leading to the final states W^+W^-, W^+-Z^0 and Z^0Z^0 are
studied, in the frame workn of the Standard Model (SM), using helicity
amplitudes. The differential and total cross sections are first evaluated in
the parton-parton center of mass system. They are then transformed to their
expected behavior in pp collisions through the parton-parton Energy Density
Functions which are here derived from the known Parton Density Functions of the
proton. In particular the single and joint longitudinal polarizations of the
final state di-bosons are calculated. The effect on these reactions from the
presence of s-channel heavy vector bosons, like the W' and Z', are evaluated to
explore the possibility to utilize the gauge boson pair production as a probe
for these 'Beyond the SM' phenomena.Comment: 15 pages and 8 figures
Non-Local Finite-Size Effects in the Dimer Model
We study the finite-size corrections of the dimer model on ∞ × N square lattice with two different boundary conditions: free and periodic. We find that the finite-size corrections depend in a crucial way on the parity of N, and show that, because of certain non-local features present in the model, a change of parity of N induces a change of boundary condition. Taking a careful account of this, these unusual finite-size behaviours can be fully explained in the framework of the c = -2 logarithmic conformal field theory
Introduction to the Sandpile Model
This article is based on a talk given by one of us (EVI) at the conference
``StatPhys-Taipei-1997''. It overviews the exact results in the theory of the
sandpile model and discusses shortly yet unsolved problem of calculation of
avalanche distribution exponents. The key ingredients include the analogy with
the critical reaction-diffusion system, the spanning tree representation of
height configurations and the decomposition of the avalanche process into waves
of topplings
The totally asymmetric exclusion process on a ring: Exact relaxation dynamics and associated model of clustering transition
The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process in discrete time is
considered on finite rings with fixed number of particles. A
translation-invariant version of the backward-ordered sequential update is
defined for periodic boundary conditions. We prove that the so defined update
leads to a stationary state in which all possible particle configurations have
equal probabilities. Using the exact analytical expression for the propagator,
we find the generating function for the conditional probabilities, average
velocity and diffusion constant at all stages of evolution. An exact and
explicit expression for the stationary velocity of TASEP on rings of arbitrary
size and particle filling is derived. The evolution of small systems towards a
steady state is clearly demonstrated. Considering the generating function as a
partition function of a thermodynamic system, we study its zeros in planes of
complex fugacities. At long enough times, the patterns of zeroes for rings with
increasing size provide evidence for a transition of the associated
two-dimensional lattice paths model into a clustered phase at low fugacities.Comment: 9 pages 5 figures accepted for publication in Physica
Generalized Green Functions and current correlations in the TASEP
We study correlation functions of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion
process (TASEP) in discrete time with backward sequential update. We prove a
determinantal formula for the generalized Green function which describes
transitions between positions of particles at different individual time
moments. In particular, the generalized Green function defines a probability
measure at staircase lines on the space-time plane. The marginals of this
measure are the TASEP correlation functions in the space-time region not
covered by the standard Green function approach. As an example, we calculate
the current correlation function that is the joint probability distribution of
times taken by selected particles to travel given distance. An asymptotic
analysis shows that current fluctuations converge to the process.Comment: 46 pages, 3 figure
From elongated spanning trees to vicious random walks
Given a spanning forest on a large square lattice, we consider by
combinatorial methods a correlation function of paths ( is odd) along
branches of trees or, equivalently, loop--erased random walks. Starting and
ending points of the paths are grouped in a fashion a --leg watermelon. For
large distance between groups of starting and ending points, the ratio of
the number of watermelon configurations to the total number of spanning trees
behaves as with . Considering the spanning
forest stretched along the meridian of this watermelon, we see that the
two--dimensional --leg loop--erased watermelon exponent is converting
into the scaling exponent for the reunion probability (at a given point) of
(1+1)--dimensional vicious walkers, . Also, we express the
conjectures about the possible relation to integrable systems.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figure
Infinite volume limit of the Abelian sandpile model in dimensions d >= 3
We study the Abelian sandpile model on Z^d. In dimensions at least 3 we prove
existence of the infinite volume addition operator, almost surely with respect
to the infinite volume limit mu of the uniform measures on recurrent
configurations. We prove the existence of a Markov process with stationary
measure mu, and study ergodic properties of this process. The main techniques
we use are a connection between the statistics of waves and uniform
two-component spanning trees and results on the uniform spanning tree measure
on Z^d.Comment: First version: LaTeX; 29 pages. Revised version: LaTeX; 29 pages. The
main result of the paper has been extended to all dimensions at least 3, with
a new and simplyfied proof of finiteness of the two-component spanning tree.
Second revision: LaTeX; 32 page
Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group Applied to Sandpile Models
The general framework for the renormalization group analysis of
self-organized critical sandpile models is formulated. The usual real space
renormalization scheme for lattice models when applied to nonequilibrium
dynamical models must be supplemented by feedback relations coming from the
stationarity conditions. On the basis of these ideas the Dynamically Driven
Renormalization Group is applied to describe the boundary and bulk critical
behavior of sandpile models. A detailed description of the branching nature of
sandpile avalanches is given in terms of the generating functions of the
underlying branching process.Comment: 18 RevTeX pages, 5 figure
Dissipative Abelian Sandpiles and Random Walks
We show that the dissipative Abelian sandpile on a graph L can be related to
a random walk on a graph which consists of L extended with a trapping site.
From this relation it can be shown, using exact results and a scaling
assumption, that the dissipative sandpiles' correlation length exponent \nu
always equals 1/d_w, where d_w is the fractal dimension of the random walker.
This leads to a new understanding of the known results that \nu=1/2 on any
Euclidean lattice. Our result is however more general and as an example we also
present exact data for finite Sierpinski gaskets which fully confirm our
predictions.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Renormalization group approach to an Abelian sandpile model on planar lattices
One important step in the renormalization group (RG) approach to a lattice
sandpile model is the exact enumeration of all possible toppling processes of
sandpile dynamics inside a cell for RG transformations. Here we propose a
computer algorithm to carry out such exact enumeration for cells of planar
lattices in RG approach to Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile model [Phys. Rev. Lett.
{\bf 59}, 381 (1987)] and consider both the reduced-high RG equations proposed
by Pietronero, Vespignani, and Zapperi (PVZ) [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 72}, 1690
(1994)] and the real-height RG equations proposed by Ivashkevich [Phys. Rev.
Lett. {\bf 76}, 3368 (1996)]. Using this algorithm we are able to carry out RG
transformations more quickly with large cell size, e.g. cell for
the square (sq) lattice in PVZ RG equations, which is the largest cell size at
the present, and find some mistakes in a previous paper [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 51},
1711 (1995)]. For sq and plane triangular (pt) lattices, we obtain the only
attractive fixed point for each lattice and calculate the avalanche exponent
and the dynamical exponent . Our results suggest that the increase of
the cell size in the PVZ RG transformation does not lead to more accurate
results. The implication of such result is discussed.Comment: 29 pages, 6 figure