266 research outputs found
Imaging spontaneous currents in superconducting arrays of pi-junctions
Superconductors separated by a thin tunneling barrier exhibit the Josephson
effect that allows charge transport at zero voltage, typically with no phase
shift between the superconductors in the lowest energy state. Recently,
Josephson junctions with ground state phase shifts of pi proposed by theory
three decades ago have been demonstrated. In superconducting loops,
pi-junctions cause spontaneous circulation of persistent currents in zero
magnetic field, analogous to spin-1/2 systems. Here we image the spontaneous
zero-field currents in superconducting networks of temperature-controlled
pi-junctions with weakly ferromagnetic barriers using a scanning SQUID
microscope. We find an onset of spontaneous supercurrents at the 0-pi
transition temperature of the junctions Tpi = 3 K. We image the currents in
non-uniformly frustrated arrays consisting of cells with even and odd numbers
of pi-junctions. Such arrays are attractive model systems for studying the
exotic phases of the 2D XY-model and achieving scalable adiabatic quantum
computers.Comment: Pre-referee version. Accepted to Nature Physic
Exceptional Operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills
We consider one particularly interesting class of composite gauge-invariant
operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. An exceptional feature of these
operators is that in the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz approach the one-loop
rapidities of the constituent magnons are shown to be exact in the 't Hooft
coupling constant. This is used to propose the mirror TBA description for these
operators. The proposal is shown to pass several non-trivial checks.Comment: 40 pages, 2 figures, 1 attached Mathematica noteboo
Electroproduction of nucleon resonances
The unitary isobar model MAID has been extended and used for a partial wave
analysis of pion photo- and electroproduction in the resonance region W < 2
GeV. Older data from the world data base and more recent experimental results
from Mainz, Bates, Bonn and JLab for Q^2 up to 4.0 (GeV/c)^2 have been analyzed
and the Q^2 dependence of the helicity amplitudes have been extracted for a
series of four star resonances. We compare single-Q^2 analyses with a
superglobal fit in a new parametrization of Maid2003 together with predictions
of the hypercentral constituent quark model. As a result we find that the
helicity amplitudes and transition form factors of constituent quark models
should be compared with the analysis of bare resonances, where the pion cloud
contributions have been subtracted.Comment: 6 pages Latex including 5 figures, Invited talk at ICTP 4th
International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics, Trieste, Italy,
12-16 May 200
Comments on the Mirror TBA
We discuss various aspects of excited state TBA equations describing the
energy spectrum of the AdS_5 \times S^5 strings and, via the AdS/CFT
correspondence, the spectrum of scaling dimensions of N = 4 SYM local
operators. We observe that auxiliary roots which are used to partially
enumerate solutions of the Bethe-Yang equations do not play any role in
engineering excited state TBA equations via the contour deformation trick. We
further argue that the TBA equations are in fact written not for a particular
string state but for the whole superconformal multiplet, and, therefore, the
psu(2,2|4) invariance is built in into the TBA construction.Comment: 28 pages, 1 figure, v2: misprints are correcte
Exploring the mirror TBA
We apply the contour deformation trick to the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz
equations for the AdS_5 \times S^5 mirror model, and obtain the integral
equations determining the energy of two-particle excited states dual to N=4 SYM
operators from the sl(2) sector. We show that each state/operator is described
by its own set of TBA equations. Moreover, we provide evidence that for each
state there are infinitely-many critical values of 't Hooft coupling constant
\lambda, and the excited states integral equations have to be modified each
time one crosses one of those. In particular, estimation based on the large L
asymptotic solution gives \lambda \approx 774 for the first critical value
corresponding to the Konishi operator. Our results indicate that the related
calculations and conclusions of Gromov, Kazakov and Vieira should be
interpreted with caution. The phenomenon we discuss might potentially explain
the mismatch between their recent computation of the scaling dimension of the
Konishi operator and the one done by Roiban and Tseytlin by using the string
theory sigma model.Comment: 69 pages, v2: new "hybrid" equations for YQ-functions, figures and
tables are added. Analyticity of Y-system is discussed, v3: published versio
On the classical equivalence of monodromy matrices in squashed sigma model
We proceed to study the hybrid integrable structure in two-dimensional
non-linear sigma models with target space three-dimensional squashed spheres. A
quantum affine algebra and a pair of Yangian algebras are realized in the sigma
models and, according to them, there are two descriptions to describe the
classical dynamics 1) the trigonometric description and 2) the rational
description, respectively. For every description, a Lax pair is constructed and
the associated monodromy matrix is also constructed. In this paper we show the
gauge-equivalence of the monodromy matrices in the trigonometric and rational
description under a certain relation between spectral parameters and the
rescalings of sl(2) generators.Comment: 32pages, 3figures, references added, introduction and discussion
sections revise
Quantum Symmetries and Marginal Deformations
We study the symmetries of the N=1 exactly marginal deformations of N=4 Super
Yang-Mills theory. For generic values of the parameters, these deformations are
known to break the SU(3) part of the R-symmetry group down to a discrete
subgroup. However, a closer look from the perspective of quantum groups reveals
that the Lagrangian is in fact invariant under a certain Hopf algebra which is
a non-standard quantum deformation of the algebra of functions on SU(3). Our
discussion is motivated by the desire to better understand why these theories
have significant differences from N=4 SYM regarding the planar integrability
(or rather lack thereof) of the spin chains encoding their spectrum. However,
our construction works at the level of the classical Lagrangian, without
relying on the language of spin chains. Our approach might eventually provide a
better understanding of the finiteness properties of these theories as well as
help in the construction of their AdS/CFT duals.Comment: 1+40 pages. v2: minor clarifications and references added. v3: Added
an appendix, fixed minor typo
Numerical results for the exact spectrum of planar AdS4/CFT3
We compute the anomalous dimension for a short single-trace operator in
planar ABJM theory at intermediate coupling. This is done by solving
numerically the set of Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz equations which are expected
to describe the exact spectrum of the theory. We implement a truncation method
which significantly reduces the number of integral equations to be solved and
improves numerical efficiency. Results are obtained for a range of 't Hooft
coupling lambda corresponding to , where h(lambda) is
the interpolating function of the AdS4/CFT3 Bethe equations.Comment: v3: corrected Acknowledgements section; v4: minor changes, published
version; v5: fixed typos in Eq. (3.9
The quark anti-quark potential and the cusp anomalous dimension from a TBA equation
We derive a set of integral equations of the TBA type for the generalized
cusp anomalous dimension, or the quark antiquark potential on the three sphere,
as a function of the angles. We do this by considering a family of local
operators on a Wilson loop with charge L. In the large L limit the problem can
be solved in terms of a certain boundary reflection matrix. We determine this
reflection matrix by using the symmetries and the boundary crossing equation.
The cusp is introduced through a relative rotation between the two boundaries.
Then the TBA trick of exchanging space and time leads to an exact equation for
all values of L. The L=0 case corresponds to the cusped Wilson loop with no
operators inserted. We then derive a slightly simplified integral equation
which describes the small angle limit. We solve this equation up to three loops
in perturbation theory and match the results that were obtained with more
direct approaches.Comment: 63 pages, 12 figures. v2: references added, typos correcte
Supergraphs and the cubic Leigh-Strassler model
We discuss supergraphs and their relation to "chiral functions" in N=4 Super
Yang-Mills. Based on the magnon dispersion relation and an explicit three-loop
result of Sieg's we make an all loop conjecture for the rational contributions
of certain classes of supergraphs. We then apply superspace techniques to the
"cubic" branch of Leigh-Strassler N=1 superconformal theories. We show that
there are order 2^L/L single trace operators of length L which have zero
anomalous dimensions to all loop order in the planar limit. We then compute the
anomalous dimensions for another class of single trace operators we call
one-pair states. Using the conjecture we can find a simple expression for the
rational part of the anomalous dimension which we argue is valid at least up to
and including five-loop order. Based on an explicit computation we can compute
the anomalous dimension for these operators to four loops.Comment: 22 pages; v2: Conjecture modified to apply only for the rational part
of the chiral functions. Typos fixed. Minor modification
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