121564578
A two-dimensional scaling theory of intermittency
Abstract A two-dimensional scaling theory of intermittency in the presence of noise is modeled on tangent bifurcation of general area-preserving maps incorporating different universality classes. The two-dimensional functional renormalization group equations, and the associated eigenvalue equations describing deterministic and stochastic perturbations are derived. The complete eigenvalue spectra are found, and the scaling behavior of the length of laminarity is discussed.
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Anomalous dimensions of tensor operators in 4-epsilon dimensions
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Crossover phenomena in the multifractal behavior of invariant circles
Abstract The singularity spectrum f(α) and the generalized dimension Dq of the critical invariant circle in an area-preserving twist map with a variable degree of inflection z is studied. The scaling behavior is found to depend on z, and there is a crossover from the simple fixed point to the standard fixed point when z varies from 2 to 3. Thus z plays a role quite similar to that of dimensionality in phase transition, with z = 2 and 3 corresponding to the lower and upper critical dimensions respectively.
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Induced Topological Terms, Hidden Local Symmetry, and Anyon Superconductivity
We show how the topological Chern-Simons term in three dimensions and the θ-term, in four dimensions can be dynamically generated due to quantum fluctuations in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models. These results give a vivid demonstration of hidden local symmetry at work. The fluctuation-induced Chern-Simons term provides a natural way to incorporate fractional statistics and thus a more direct connection with anyon superconductivity. Possible phenomenological implications of this approach in particle physics are also discussed.
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Galilean structure of the Poincaré group on the light-cone
SummaryIt is observed that the isomorphism between the Poincaré subgroup in the L.C. (light-cone) co-ordinates and the two-dimensional Galilean group can be trivially extended to higher dimensions. The case of five dimension is explicitly shown, and the generalization to any finite dimensionn (> 2) is immediate.RiassuntoSi osserva che l’isomorfismo fra il sottogruppo di Poincaré nelle coordinate del cono di luce (L.C.) ed il gruppo galileano bidimensionale può essere esteso in modo banale a dimensioni superiori. Si presenta esplicitamente il caso delle cinque dimensioni, e la generalizzazione a qualunque dimensione finitan (>2) è immediata.РеэюмеОтмечается, что иэоморфиэм между подгруппой Пуанкаре в координата светового конуса и двумерной группой Галилея может быть тривиально распространен на случай больщего числа иэмерений. Явным обраэом исследуется пятимерный случай. Обобшение на случай любого числа иэмеренийп (>2) получается непосредственно.
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Nonadiabatic geometric phase for the cyclic evolution of a time-dependent Hamiltonian system
The geometric phases of the cyclic states of a generalized harmonic oscillator with nonadiabatic timeperiodic parameters are discussed in the framework of squeezed state. It is shown that the cyclic and quasicyclic squeezed states correspond to the periodic and quasiperiodic solutions of an effective Hamiltonian defined on an extended phase space, respectively. The geometric phase of the cyclic squeezed state is found to be a phase-space area swept out by a periodic orbit. Furthermore, a class of cyclic states is expressed as a superposition of an infinite number of squeezed states. Their geometric phases are found to be independent of \, and equal to 2(n11/2) times the classical nonadiabatic Hannay angle. @S1050-2947~98!03311-3# The Berry phase is one of the most important findings on the fundamental problem of quantum mechanics in recent years @1#. It reveals the gauge structure associated with a phase shift in adiabatic processes in quantum mechanics. This quantal phase is connected with a classical angle, namely, the Hannay angle, by a simple and elegant expression in the semiclassical limit @2#. The next important advance was the relaxation of the adiabatic approximation @3,4#. Aharanov and Anandan studied the phase associated with a cyclic evolution in quantum mechanics, which occurs when a state returns to its initial condition. They showed that the phase is a geometrical property of the curve in the projective Hilbert space which is naturally associated with the motion @3#. For the special case of an adiabatic evolution, this phase factor is a gauge-invariant generalization of the Berry phase. The significance of Aharanov and Anandan’s generalization lies in the following: ~i! the cyclic evolution of a physical system is of the most interest in physics both experimentally and theoretically; ~ii! the universal existence of the cyclic evolution is guaranteed for any quantum system. The second point can be easily recognized by considering the eigenvectors of the unitary evolution operator for a quantum system. An explicit example is a time-periodic Hamiltonian system where the Floquet theorem applies. The eigenfunctions of the Floquet operator, which are the socalled Bloch wave functions in condensed-matter physics, are obviously cyclic solutions and are of great interest in physics. However, unlike the adiabatic case, in the nonadiabatic case calculating the eigenvectors and extracting the nonadiabatic geometric phase from the quasienergy term for a time-dependent Hamiltonian is far from a trivial task, except in the special case of the spin particle in a magnetic field. Recent works of Ge and Child@5# made a further step in this direction. They found a special cyclic state of the Gaussian wave packet’s form for a generalized harmonic oscillator. The nonadiabatic geometric phase is explicitly calculated and found to be one-half of the classical nonadiabatic Hannay angle. In this paper, we would like to suggest an alternative approach—the squeezed-state approach to study the general cyclic evolutions of the generalized harmonic oscillator. In particular, we shall construct a class of quantum states based on the superposition of an infinite number of squeezed states. We find that the condition for them to be cyclic evolutions is nothing but the quantization rule without Maslov-Morse correction. The nonadiabatic geometric phases are obtained analytically, and found to be related to the classical Hannay angle by an explicit expression.
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A study of finite size systems
Abstract A conceptual and computational framework is developed for the general investigation of the infrared behaviour of finite size systems. In particular a definition of a finite size system is presented. It is shown that there are many systems which satisfy this definition and are therefore finite size, but whose finite size nature has not been previously uncovered. A discussion of the conditions under which the effects of finite size are important is given. The one and two particle irreducible effective actions are shown to provide powerful analytical tools for extracting information from these systems, with superconductivity in the presence of an external magnetic field chosen as a prototypical example with which to illustrate the concepts and formalism herein.
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Hydrodynamic transport functions from quantum kinetic field theory
Starting from the quantum kinetic field theory [E. Calzetta and B. L. Hu, Phys. Rev. D 37, 2878 (1988)] constructed from the closed-time-path (CTP), two-particle-irreducible (2PI) effective action we show how to compute from first principles the shear and bulk viscosity functions in the hydrodynamic-thermodynamic regime. For a real scalar field with $\ensuremath{\lambda}{\ensuremath{\Phi}}^{4}$ self-interaction we need to include four-loop graphs in the equation of motion. This work provides a microscopic field-theoretical basis to the ``effective kinetic theory'' proposed by Jeon and Yaffe [S. Jeon and L. G. Yaffe, Phys. Rev. D 53, 5799 (1996)], while our result for the bulk viscosity reproduces their expression derived from linear-response theory and the imaginary-time formalism of thermal field theory. Though unavoidably involved in calculations of this sort, we feel that the approach using fundamental quantum kinetic field theory is conceptually clearer and methodically simpler than the effective kinetic theory approach, as the success of the latter requires a clever rendition of diagrammatic resummations which is neither straightforward nor fail-safe. Moreover, the method based on the CTP-2PI effective action illustrated here for a scalar field can be formulated entirely in terms of functional integral quantization, which makes it an appealing method for a first-principles calculation of transport functions of a thermal non-Abelian gauge theory, e.g., QCD quark-gluon plasma produced from heavy ion collisions.
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Wigner Function and Quantum Liouville Equation in Curved Spacetime
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Gauge-invariant effective action for the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates with a fixed number of atoms
In this paper we present a particle-number-conserving (PNC) functional formalism to describe the dynamics of a cold bosonic gas. Treating the total number of particles as a constraint, whereby the phase invariance of the theory becomes local in time, we study this U(1) gauge theory using DeWitt's "gauge invariant effective action" techniques. Our functional formulation and earlier PNC proposals are shown to yield equivalent results to next-to-leading order in an expansion in the inverse powers of the total number of particles. In this more general framework we also show that earlier PNC proposals can be seen as different gauge (and gauge fixing condition) choices within the same physical theory.
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Stochastic theory of relativistic particles moving in a quantum field. 1. Influence functional and Langevin equation
We treat a relativistically moving particle interacting with a quantum field from an open system viewpoint of quantum field theory by the method of influence functionals or closedtime-path coarse-grained effective actions. The particle trajectory is not prescribed but is determined by the backreaction of the quantum field in a self-consistent way. Coarse-graining the quantum field imparts stochastic behavior in the particle trajectory. The formalism is set up here as a precursor to a first principles derivation of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac (ALD) equation from quantum field theory as the correct equation of motion valid in the semiclassical limit. This approach also discerns classical radiation reaction from quantum dissipation in the motion of a charged particle; only the latter is related to vacuum fluctuations in the quantum field by a fluctuation-dissipation relation, which we show to exist for nonequilibrim processes under this type of nonlinear coupling. This formalism leads naturally to a set of Langevin equations associated with a generalized ALD equation. These multiparticle stochastic differential equations feature local dissipation (for massless quantum fields), multiplicative noise, and nonlocal particle-particle correlations, interrelated in ways characteristic of nonlinear theories, through generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations.