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Competition between glass transition and liquid-gas separation in attracting colloids
We present simulation results addressing the phenomena of colloidal gelation
induced by attractive interactions. The liquid-gas transition is prevented by
the glass arrest at high enough attraction strength, resulting in a colloidal
gel. The dynamics of the system is controlled by the glass, with little effect
of the liquid-gas transition. When the system separates in a liquid and vapor
phases, even if the denser phase enters the non-ergodic region, the vapor phase
enables the structural relaxation of the system as a whole.Comment: Proceedings of the glass conference in Pisa (September 06
Dilepton production at HADES: theoretical predictions
Dileptons represent a unique probe for nuclear matter under extreme
conditions reached in heavy-ion collisions. They allow to study meson
properties, like mass and decay width, at various density and temperature
regimes. Present days models allow generally a good description of dilepton
spectra in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision. For the energy regime of a
few GeV/nucleon, important discrepancies between theory and experiment, known
as the DLS puzzle, have been observed. Various models, including the one
developed by the T\"{u}bingen group, have tried to address this problem, but
have proven only partially successful. High precision spectra of dilepton
emission in heavy-ion reactions at 1 and 2 GeV/nucleon will be released in the
near future by the HADES Collaboration at GSI. Here we present the predictions
for dilepton spectra in C+C reactions at 1 and 2 GeV/nucleon and investigate up
to what degree possible scenarios for the in-medium modification of vector
mesons properties are accessible by the HADES experiment.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Phys.Lett.
Schnabl's L_0 Operator in the Continuous Basis
Following Schnabl's analytic solution to string field theory, we calculate
the operators for a scalar field in the
continuous basis. We find an explicit and simple expression for them
that further simplifies for their sum, which is block diagonal in this basis.
We generalize this result for the bosonized ghost sector, verify their
commutation relation and relate our expressions to wedge state representations.Comment: 1+16 pages. JHEP style. Typos correcte
Tachyon-Free Non-Supersymmetric Strings on Orbifolds
We discuss tachyon-free examples of (Type IIB on) non-compact
non-supersymmetric orbifolds. Tachyons are projected out by discrete torsion
between orbifold twists, while supersymmetry is broken by a Scherk-Schwarz
phase (+1/-1 when acting on space-time bosons/fermions) accompanying some even
order twists. The absence of tachyons is encouraging for constructing
non-supersymmetric D3-brane gauge theories with stable infrared fixed points.
The D3-brane gauge theories in our orbifold backgrounds have chiral N = 1
supersymmetric spectra, but non-supersymmetric interactions.Comment: 17 page
On the validity of the solution of string field theory
We analyze the realm of validity of the recently found tachyon solution of
cubic string field theory. We find that the equation of motion holds in a non
trivial way when this solution is contracted with itself. This calculation is
needed to conclude the proof of Sen's first conjecture. We also find that the
equation of motion holds when the tachyon or gauge solutions are contracted
among themselves.Comment: JHEP style, 9+1 pages. Typos correcte
Criteria for Continuous-Variable Quantum Teleportation
We derive an experimentally testable criterion for the teleportation of
quantum states of continuous variables. This criterion is especially relevant
to the recent experiment of Furusawa et al. [Science 282, 706-709 (1998)] where
an input-output fidelity of was achieved for optical coherent
states. Our derivation demonstrates that fidelities greater than 1/2 could not
have been achieved through the use of a classical channel alone; quantum
entanglement was a crucial ingredient in the experiment.Comment: 12 pages, to appear in Journal of Modern Optic
Ghost story. III. Back to ghost number zero
After having defined a 3-strings midpoint-inserted vertex for the bc system,
we analyze the relation between gh=0 states (wedge states) and gh=3 midpoint
duals. We find explicit and regular relations connecting the two objects. In
the case of wedge states this allows us to write down a spectral decomposition
for the gh=0 Neumann matrices, despite the fact that they are not commuting
with the matrix representation of K1. We thus trace back the origin of this
noncommutativity to be a consequence of the imaginary poles of the wedge
eigenvalues in the complex k-plane. With explicit reconstruction formulas at
hand for both gh=0 and gh=3, we can finally show how the midpoint vertex avoids
this intrinsic noncommutativity at gh=0, making everything as simple as the
zero momentum matter sector.Comment: 40 pages. v2: typos and minor corrections, presentation improved in
sect. 4.3, plots added in app. A.1, two refs added. To appear in JHE
Superstring field theory equivalence: Ramond sector
We prove that the finite gauge transformation of the Ramond sector of the
modified cubic superstring field theory is ill-defined due to collisions of
picture changing operators.
Despite this problem we study to what extent could a bijective classical
correspondence between this theory and the (presumably consistent)
non-polynomial theory exist. We find that the classical equivalence between
these two theories can almost be extended to the Ramond sector: We construct
mappings between the string fields (NS and Ramond, including Chan-Paton factors
and the various GSO sectors) of the two theories that send solutions to
solutions in a way that respects the linearized gauge symmetries in both sides
and keeps the action of the solutions invariant. The perturbative spectrum
around equivalent solutions is also isomorphic.
The problem with the cubic theory implies that the correspondence of the
linearized gauge symmetries cannot be extended to a correspondence of the
finite gauge symmetries. Hence, our equivalence is only formal, since it
relates a consistent theory to an inconsistent one. Nonetheless, we believe
that the fact that the equivalence formally works suggests that a consistent
modification of the cubic theory exists. We construct a theory that can be
considered as a first step towards a consistent RNS cubic theory.Comment: v1: 24 pages. v2: 27 pages, significant modifications of the
presentation, new section, typos corrected, references adde
Normalization anomalies in level truncation calculations
We test oscillator level truncation regularization in string field theory by
calculating descent relations among vertices, or equivalently, the overlap of
wedge states. We repeat the calculation using bosonic, as well as fermionic
ghosts, where in the bosonic case we do the calculation both in the discrete
and in the continuous basis. We also calculate analogous expressions in field
level truncation. Each calculation gives a different result. We point out to
the source of these differences and in the bosonic ghost case we pinpoint the
origin of the difference between the discrete and continuous basis
calculations. The conclusion is that level truncation regularization cannot be
trusted in calculations involving normalization of singular states, such as
wedge states, rank-one squeezed state projectors and string vertices.Comment: 1+20 pages, 6 figures. v2: Ref. added, typos correcte
The Lie Algebraic Significance of Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements
Examples of symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued
measures (SIC-POVMs) have been constructed in every dimension less than or
equal to 67. However, it remains an open question whether they exist in all
finite dimensions. A SIC-POVM is usually thought of as a highly symmetric
structure in quantum state space. However, its elements can equally well be
regarded as a basis for the Lie algebra gl(d,C). In this paper we examine the
resulting structure constants, which are calculated from the traces of the
triple products of the SIC-POVM elements and which, it turns out, characterize
the SIC-POVM up to unitary equivalence. We show that the structure constants
have numerous remarkable properties. In particular we show that the existence
of a SIC-POVM in dimension d is equivalent to the existence of a certain
structure in the adjoint representation of gl(d,C). We hope that transforming
the problem in this way, from a question about quantum state space to a
question about Lie algebras, may help to make the existence problem tractable.Comment: 56 page
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