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Symmetry Breaking in the Schr\"odinger Representation for Chern-Simons Theories
This paper discusses the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the
Schr\"odinger representation formulation of quantum field theory. The analysis
is presented for three-dimensional space-time abelian gauge theories with
either Maxwell, Maxwell-Chern-Simons, or pure Chern-Simons terms as the gauge
field contribution to the action, each of which leads to a different form of
mass generation for the gauge fields.Comment: 16pp, LaTeX , UCONN-94-
A Gauge-Gravity Relation in the One-loop Effective Action
We identify an unusual new gauge-gravity relation: the one-loop effective
action for a massive spinor in 2n dimensional AdS space is expressed in terms
of precisely the same function [a certain multiple gamma function] as the
one-loop effective action for a massive charged scalar in 4n dimensions in a
maximally symmetric background electromagnetic field [one for which the
eigenvalues of F_{\mu\nu} are maximally degenerate, corresponding in 4
dimensions to a self-dual field, equivalently to a field of definite helicity],
subject to the identification F^2 \Lambda, where \Lambda is the
gravitational curvature. Since these effective actions generate the low energy
limit of all one-loop multi-leg graviton or gauge amplitudes, this implies a
nontrivial gauge-gravity relation at the non-perturbative level and at the
amplitude level.Comment: 6 page
Perturbative Analysis of Nonabelian Aharonov-Bohm Scattering
We perform a perturbative analysis of the nonabelian Aharonov-Bohm problem to
one loop in a field theoretic framework, and show the necessity of contact
interactions for renormalizability of perturbation theory. Moreover at critical
values of the contact interaction strength the theory is finite and preserves
classical conformal invariance.Comment: 12 pages in LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, 5 uuencoded Postscript figures sent
separately. MIT-CTP-228
Chern-Simons matrix model: coherent states and relation to Laughlin wavefunctions
Using a coherent state representation we derive many-body probability
distributions and wavefunctions for the Chern-Simons matrix model proposed by
Polychronakos and compare them to the Laughlin ones. We analyze two different
coherent state representations, corresponding to different choices for electron
coordinate bases. In both cases we find that the resulting probability
distributions do not quite agree with the Laughlin ones. There is agreement on
the long distance behavior, but the short distance behavior is different.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX; one reference added, abstract and section 5
expanded, typos correcte
Mass Spectra of N=2 Supersymmetric SU(n) Chern-Simons-Higgs Theories
An algebraic method is used to work out the mass spectra and symmetry
breaking patterns of general vacuum states in N=2 supersymmetric SU(n)
Chern-Simons-Higgs systems with the matter fields being in the adjoint
representation. The approach provides with us a natural basis for fields, which
will be useful for further studies in the self-dual solutions and quantum
corrections. As the vacuum states satisfy the SU(2) algebra, it is not
surprising to find that their spectra are closely related to that of angular
momentum addition in quantum mechanics. The analysis can be easily generalized
to other classical Lie groups.Comment: 17 pages, use revte
Two new submodels for the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy): New Aerosol Nucleation (NAN) and small ions (IONS) version 1.0
Abstract. Two new submodels for the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy)
were developed. The New Aerosol Nucleation (NAN) submodel includes new
parameterisations of aerosol particle formation rates published in recent
years. These parameterisations include ion-induced nucleation and nucleation
of pure organic species. NAN calculates the rate of new particle formation
based on the aforementioned parameterisations for aerosol submodels in the
ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry (EMAC) model. The ion pair
production rate, needed to calculate the ion-induced or ion-mediated nucleation,
is described using the new submodel IONS, which provides ion pair production
rates for other submodels within the MESSy framework. Both new submodels were
tested in EMAC simulations. These simulations showed good agreement with
ground-based observations.
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Casimir Effects in Renormalizable Quantum Field Theories
We review the framework we and our collaborators have developed for the study
of one-loop quantum corrections to extended field configurations in
renormalizable quantum field theories. We work in the continuum, transforming
the standard Casimir sum over modes into a sum over bound states and an
integral over scattering states weighted by the density of states. We express
the density of states in terms of phase shifts, allowing us to extract
divergences by identifying Born approximations to the phase shifts with low
order Feynman diagrams. Once isolated in Feynman diagrams, the divergences are
canceled against standard counterterms. Thus regulated, the Casimir sum is
highly convergent and amenable to numerical computation. Our methods have
numerous applications to the theory of solitons, membranes, and quantum field
theories in strong external fields or subject to boundary conditions.Comment: 27 pp., 11 EPS figures, LaTeX using ijmpa1.sty; email correspondence
to R.L. Jaffe ; based on talks presented by the authors at
the 5th workshop `QFTEX', Leipzig, September 200
On the QED Effective Action in Time Dependent Electric Backgrounds
We apply the resolvent technique to the computation of the QED effective
action in time dependent electric field backgrounds. The effective action has
both real and imaginary parts, and the imaginary part is related to the pair
production probability in such a background. The resolvent technique has been
applied previously to spatially inhomogeneous magnetic backgrounds, for which
the effective action is real. We explain how dispersion relations connect these
two cases, the magnetic case which is essentially perturbative in nature, and
the electric case where the imaginary part is nonperturbative. Finally, we use
a uniform semiclassical approximation to find an expression for very general
time dependence for the background field. This expression is remarkably similar
in form to Schwinger's classic result for the constant electric background.Comment: 27 pages, no figures; reference adde
Self-DUal SU(3) Chern-Simons Higgs Systems
We explore self-dual Chern-Simons Higgs systems with the local and
global symmetries where the matter field lies in the adjoint
representation. We show that there are three degenerate vacua of different
symmetries and study the unbroken symmetry and particle spectrum in each
vacuum. We classify the self-dual configurations into three types and study
their properties.Comment: Columbia Preprint CU-TP-635, 19 page
Consistency restrictions on maximal electric field strength in QFT
QFT with an external background can be considered as a consistent model only
if backreaction is relatively small with respect to the background. To find the
corresponding consistency restrictions on an external electric field and its
duration in QED and QCD, we analyze the mean energy density of quantized fields
for an arbitrary constant electric field E, acting during a large but finite
time T. Using the corresponding asymptotics with respect to the dimensionless
parameter , one can see that the leading contributions to the energy are
due to the creation of paticles by the electric field. Assuming that these
contributions are small in comparison with the energy density of the electric
background, we establish the above-mentioned restrictions, which determine, in
fact, the time scales from above of depletion of an electric field due to the
backreactionComment: 7 pages; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.; added
one ref. and some comment
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