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Quantum impurity in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid: continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo approach
We develop a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CTQMC) method for quantum
impurities coupled to interacting quantum wires described by a
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. The method is negative-sign free for any values of
the Tomonaga-Luttinger parameter, which is rigorously proved, and thus,
efficient low-temperature calculations are possible. Duality between electrons
and bosons in one dimensional systems allows us to construct a simple formula
for the CTQMC algorithm in these systems. We show that the CTQMC for
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids can be implemented with only minor modifications of
previous CTQMC codes developed for impurities coupled to non-interacting
fermions. We apply this method to the Kane-Fisher model of a potential
scatterer in a spin-less quantum wire and to a single spin coupled with the
edge state of a two-dimensional topological insulator assuming an anisotropic
XXZ coupling. Various dynamical response functions such as the electron Green's
function and spin-spin correlation functions are calculated numerically and
their scaling properties are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figure
A possible route to spontaneous reduction of the heat conductivity by a temperature gradient driven instability in electron-ion plasmas
We have shown that there exists low-frequency growing modes driven by a
global temperature gradient in electron and ion plasmas, by linear perturbation
analysis within the frame work of plasma Kinetic theory. The driving force of
the instability is the local deviation of the distribution function from the
Maxwell-Boltzmann due to global temperature gradient. Application to the
intracluster medium shows that scattering of the particles due to waves excited
by the instability is possible to reduce mean free paths of electron and ion
down to five to seven order of magnitude than the mean free paths due to
Coulomb collisions. This may provide a hint to explain why hot and cool gas can
co-exist in the intracluster medium in spite of the very short evaporation time
scale due to thermal conduction if the conductivity is the classical Spitzer
value. Our results suggest that the realization of the global thermal
equilibrium is postponed by the local instability which is induced for quicker
realization of local thermal equilibrium state in plasmas. The instability
provides a new possibility to create and grow cosmic magnetic fields without
any seed magnetic field.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ: 16 pages, 1figur
A method to measure a relative transverse velocity of source-lens-observer system using gravitational lensing of gravitational waves
Gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the
geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from
gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for
electromagnetic waves. Long wavelength of gravitational waves and compactness
of possible sources may enable us to extract information in the interference
among the lensed images. We point out that the interference term contains
information of relative transverse velocity of the source-lens-observer system,
which may be obtained by possible future space-borne gravitational wave
detectors such as BBO/DECIGO.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review
Universality and Critical Behavior at the Critical-End-Point on Itinerant-Metamagnet UCoAl
We performed nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) measurements on
itinerant-electron metamagnet UCoAl in order to investigate the critical
behavior of the magnetism near a metamagnetic (MM) critical endpoint (CEP). We
derived c-axis magnetization and its fluctuation from the
measurements of Knight shift and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate
as a function of the c-axis external field () and temperature (). We
developed contour plots of and on the - phase diagram,
and observed the strong divergence of at the CEP. The critical exponents
of and near the CEP are estimated, and found to be close to the
universal properties of a three-dimensional (3-D) Ising model. We indicate that
the critical phenomena at the itinerant-electron MM CEP in UCoAl have a common
feature as a gas-liquid transition.Comment: 8 Pages, 14 figure
Spectroscopic confirmation of a cluster of galaxies at z=1 in the field of the gravitational lens MG2016+112
We present new optical data on the cluster AX J2019+1127 identified by the
X-ray satellite ASCA at z\sim 1 (Hattori et al. 1997). The data suggest the
presence of a high-redshift cluster of galaxies responsible for the large
separation triple quasar MG2016+112. Our deep photometry reveals an excess of
z\sim 1 galaxy candidates, as already suspected by Benitez et al. (1999). Our
spectroscopic survey of 44 objects in the field shows an excess of 6 red
galaxies securely identified at z \sim 1, with a mean redshift of z =1.005 +/-
0.002. We estimate a velocity dispersion of \sigma = 771 (+430/-160) km s(-1)
based on these 6 galaxies and a V-band mass-to-light ratio of 215 (+308/-77)
h_50 M/L_sol. Our observations thus confirm the existence of a massive
structure acting as the lens, which explains the unusual configuration of the
triple quasar. Hence, there is no more need to invoke the existence of a ``dark
cluster'' to understand this lens system.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, uses aa.cls, accepted to Astronomy and
Astrophysics with minor change
Semidirect product gauge group and quantization of hypercharge
In the Standard Model the hypercharges of quarks and leptons are not
determined by the gauge group alone. We show that, if we choose the semidirect product group
as its gauge group,
the hyperchages are settled to be . In
addition, the conditions for gauge-anomaly cancellation give strong
constraints. As a result, the ratios of the hypercharges are uniquely
determined and the gravitational anomaly is automatically canceled. The
standard charge assignment to quarks and leptons can be properly reproduced.
For exotic matter fields their hypercharges are also discussed.Comment: 17 pages, 2 tables; LaTeX; typos corrected, references added or
replaced, argument in Secs. 2 and 3 revised, results unchanged; to be
published in Phys. Rew.
Transition density of diffusion on Sierpinski gasket and extension of Flory's formula
Some problems related to the transition density u(t,x) of the diffusion on
the Sierpinski gasket are considerd, based on recent rigorous results and
detailed numerical calculations. The main contents are an extension of Flory's
formula for the end-to-end distance exponent of self-avoiding walks on the
fractal spaces, and an evidence of the oscillatory behavior of u(t,x) on the
Sierpinski gasket.Comment: 11 pages, REVTEX, 2 postscript figure
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