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Lifshitz Scaling Effects on Holographic Superconductors
Via numerical and analytical methods, the effects of the Lifshitz dynamical exponent z on the holographic superconductor models are studied in some detail, including s-wave and p-wave models. Working in the probe limit, we calculate the condensation and conductivity in both Lifshitz black hole and soliton backgrounds with a general z. For both the s-wave and p-wave models in the black hole backgrounds, as z increases, the phase transition becomes difficult and the conductivity is suppressed. For the Lifshitz soliton background, when z increases, the critical chemical potential increases in both the s-wave model (with a fixed mass of the scalar field) and p-wave model. For the p-wave model in both the Lifshitz black hole and soliton backgrounds, the anisotropy between the AC conductivity in different spatial directions is suppressed when z increases. In all cases, we find that the critical exponent of the condensation is always 1/2, independent of z and spacetime dimension. The analytical results from the Sturm-Liouville variational method uphold the numerical calculations. The implications of these results are discussed. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
119216015
More on QCD ghost dark energy
The difference between the vacuum energy of quantum fields in Minkowski space and in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe might be related to the observed dark energy. The vacuum energy of the Veneziano ghost field introduced to solve the U(1)(A) problem in QCD is of the form H + O(H-2). Based on this, we study the dynamical evolution of a phenomenological dark energy model whose energy density is of the form alpha H + beta H-2. In this model, the universe approaches a de Sitter phase at late times. We fit the model with current observational data, including SnIa, BAO, CMB, BBN, the Hubble parameter, and the growth rate of matter perturbation. It shows that the universe begins to accelerate at redshift z similar to 0.75, and this model is consistent with current data. In particular, this model fits the data of the growth factor well as the Lambda CDM model.
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Constraints of energy conditions and DK instability criterion on f(R, Lm) gravity models
Some properties of f(R, Lm) gravity are studied in this paper. Concretely, the energy conditions and the Dolgov–Kawasaki (DK) instability criterion in f(R, Lm) gravity are obtained, which are quite general and can degenerate to the ones in General Relativity (GR) and pure f(R) gravity with non-coupling and non-minimal coupling as well as in [J. Wang and K. Liao, Class. Quantum Grav. 29, 215016 (2012)] as special cases. Furthermore, in order to get some insight on the meaning of the energy conditions and the DK instability criterion, we apply them to the concrete type of f(R, Lm) gravity models and the corresponding constraints on the models are given.
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Evolution of Holographic Dark Energy in Interacting Modified Chaplygin Gas Model
We investigate the modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) with interaction between holographic dark energy proposed by Li and dark matter. In this model, evolution of the universe is described in detail, which is from deceleration to acceleration. Specifically, the evolutions of related cosmological quantities such as density parameter, the equation of state of holographic dark energy, deceleration parameter and transition redshift are discussed. Moreover, we also give their present values which are consistent with the lately observations. Furthermore, the results given by us show such a model can accommodate a transition of the dark energy from a normal state wX > – 1 to wX < – 1 phantom regimes.
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THE VARIABLE GENERALIZED CHAPLYGIN GAS MODEL WITH INTERACTION
In this paper a variable generalized Chaplygin gas (VGCG) proposal for unification of dark matter and dark energy is considered, in which dark energy interacts with dark matter. The equation of state of the VGCG is given by p = -A0a-n/ρα, where a is the scale factor. By calculations some cosmological quantities such as density parameters of baryons, dark matter and dark energy as well as the deceleration parameter are all obtained. Furthermore, the transition from deceleration to acceleration is described and the interaction between dark energy and dark matter is considered in this model. We find the behavior of VGCG is similar to dust-like matter at early times and will be quintessence or phantom at late stage. In addition the evolution trajectory of the VGCG model in the statefinder parameter s-r plane is plotted and the discrimination between this scenario and the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model is illustrated.
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Holographic p-wave superfluid
In the probe limit, we numerically construct a holographic p-wave superfluid model in the 4D and 5D AdS black holes coupled to a Maxwell-complex vector field. 
We find that, for the condensate with the fixed superfluid velocity, the results are similar to the s-wave cases in both 4D and 5D spacetimes. In particular, "The Cave of Winds" and the phase transition always being the second order take place in the 5D case. Moreover, we find the second-first order translating point $\frac{S_y}{\mu}$ increases with the mass squared. Furthermore, for the supercurrent with the fixed temperature, the results agree with the GL prediction near the critical temperature. In addition, this complex vector superfluid model is still a generalization of the SU(2) superfluid model, and also provides a holographic realization of the $He_3$ superfluid system.
17896194
On the Intermittency and Chaos in High Energy Collisions
It is shown that an event sample from the Monte Carlo simulation of a random cascading \alpha model with fixed dynamical fluctuation strength is intermittent but not chaotic, while the variance of dynamical fluctuation strength in different events will result in both the intermittency and the chaotic behavior. This shows that fractality and chaoticity are two connected but different features of non-linear dynamics in high energy collisions.
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Critical behavior of hadronic fluctuations and the effect of final-state randomization
The critical behaviors of the quark-hadron phase transition are explored by use of the Ising model adapted for hadron production. Various measures involving the fluctuations of the produced hadrons in bins of various sizes are examined with the aim of quantifying the clustering properties that are universal features of all critical phenomena. Some of the measures involve wavelet analysis. Two of the measures are found to exhibit the canonical power-law behavior near the critical temperature. The effect of final-state randomization is studied by requiring the produced particles to take random walks in the transverse plane. It is demonstrated that for the measures considered the dependence on the randomization process is weak. Since temperature is not a directly measurable variable, the average hadronic density of a portion of each event is used as the control variable that is measurable. The event-to-event fluctuations are taken into account in the study of the dependence of the chosen measures on that control variable. Phenomenologically verifiable critical behaviors are found and are proposed for use as a signature of quark-hadron phase transition in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
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The study of non-collectivity by the forward–backward multiplicity correlation function
We propose a forward–backward multiplicity correlation function CNFB, which is experimentally accessible, to measure the non-collectivity contribution. It is found that the function is sensitive to both the jet contribution and small number statistics. We point out that the effect of the latter is also involved in the previous studies of the forward–backward elliptic correlation function but was misinterpreted as a contribution from jets. We study the CNFB in Au+Au collision at GeV with a multiphase transport model (AMPT). The result shows that the estimated jet contribution is much smaller than in the previous study due to the finite number statistics which has not been noticed before. The connection between this study and the forward–backward elliptic correlation function is also discussed.
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Erraticity analysis of multiparticle production in π+p and K+p collisions at 250 GeV/c
Abstract The erraticity behavior of multiparticle production is analyzed in π + p and K + p collisions at 250 GeV/ c . It is demonstrated that, for these low-multiplicity final states, the erraticity measure based on event-to-event fluctuation of factorial moments is dominated by statistical fluctuations.
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Levy stability for anisotropic dynamical fluctuation in high energy multiparticle production
The behaviour of Levy indexμ in various phase space dimensions is studied. The reason for the violation of Levy stable condition at three-dimension observed in experiment is investigated. It is shown that the apparent violation of Levy stable condition may be due to the wrong isotropic analysis for the highly anisotropic phase space of multiparticle production.