3155815
Non-Abelian k-vortex dynamics in N = 1* theory and its gravity dual
We study magnetic flux tubes in the Higgs vacuum of the = 1* mass deformation of SU(Nc), = 4 SYM and its large Nc string dual, the Polchinski-Strassler geometry. Choosing equal masses for the three adjoint chiral multiplets, for all Nc we identify a ``colour-flavour locked'' symmetry, SO(3)C+F which leaves the Higgs vacuum invariant. At weak coupling, we find explicit non-Abelian k-vortex solutions carrying a Nc-valued magnetic flux, with winding, 0 < k < Nc. These k-strings spontaneously break SO(3)C+F to U(1)C+F resulting in an S2 moduli space of solutions. The world-sheet sigma model is a nonsupersymmetric 1 model with a theta angle θ1+1 = k(Nc−k)θ3+1 where θ3+1 is the Yang-Mills vacuum angle. We find numerically that k-vortex tensions follow the Casimir scaling law Tk ∝ k(Nc−k) for large Nc. In the large Nc IIB string dual, the SO(3)C+F symmetry is manifest in the geometry interpolating between AdS5 × S5 and the interior metric due to a single D5-brane carrying D3-brane charge. We identify candidate k-vortices as expanded probe D3-branes formed from a collection of k D-strings. The resulting k-vortex tension exhibits precise Casimir scaling, and the effective world-sheet theta angle matches the semiclassical result. S-duality maps the Higgs to the confining phase so that confining string tensions at strong 't Hooft coupling also exhibit Casimir scaling in = 1* theory in the large Nc limit.
18863456
Out of Equilibrium Fields in Inflationary Dynamics. Density Fluctuations
The energy and time scales during the inflationary stage of the universe calls for an out of equilibrium quantum field treatment. Moreover, the high energy densities involved (∼1/g ∼ 1012) make necessary the use of non-perturbative approaches as the large N and Hartree methods. We start these lectures by introducing the such non-perturbative out of equilibrium methods in cosmological universes. We discuss the renormalization procedure and the choice of initial conditions. We then study with these methods the non-linear dynamics of quantum fields in matter and radiation dominated FRW and de Sitter universes. For a variety of initial conditions, we compute the evolution of the inflaton, its quantum fluctuations and the equation of state. We investigate the phenomenon of explosive particle production due to spinodal instabilities and parametric amplification in FRW and de Sitter universes with and without symmetry breaking. We find that the particle production is somewhat sensitive to the expansion of the universe. In the large N limit for symmetry breaking scenarios, we determine generic late time fields behavior for any flat FRW and de Sitter cosmology. We find that quantum fluctuations damp in FRW as the square of the scale factor while the order parameter approaches a minimum of the potential at the same rate. We present a complete and numerically accessible renormalization scheme for the equation of motion and the energy momentum tensor in flat cosmologies. In this scheme the renormalization constants are independent of time and of the initial conditions. Furthermore, we consider an O(N) inflaton model coupled self-consistently to gravity in the semiclassical approximation, where the field is subject to ‘new inflation’ type initial conditions. We study the dynamics self-consistently and non-perturbatively with non-equilibrium field theory methods in the large N limit. We find that spinodal instabilities drive the growth of non-perturbatively large quantum fluctuations which shut off the inflationary growth of the scale factor. We find that a very specific combination of these large fluctuations plus the inflaton zero mode assemble into a new effective field. This new field behaves classically and it is the object which actually rolls down. We show how this reinterpretation qualitatively saves the standard picture of how metric perturbations are generated during inflation and that the spinodal growth of fluctuations dominates the time dependence of the Bardeen variable for superhorizon modes during inflation. We compute the amplitude and index for the spectrum of scalar density and tensor perturbations and argue that in all models of this type the spinodal instabilities are responsible for a ‘red’ spectrum of primordial scalar density perturbations. The decoherence aspects and the quantum to classical transition through inflation are studied in detail by following the full evolution of the density matrix.
15505916
Exact Superpotentials from Matrix Models
Dijkgraaf and Vafa (DV) have conjectured that the exact superpotential for a large class of = 1 SUSY gauge theories can be extracted from the planar limit of a certain holomorphic matrix integral. We test their proposal against existing knowledge for a family of deformations of = 4 SUSY Yang-Mills theory involving an arbitrary polynomial superpotential for one of the three adjoint chiral superfields. Specifically, we compare the DV prediction for these models with earlier results based on the connection between SUSY gauge theories and integrable systems. We find complete agreement between the two approaches. In particular we show how the DV proposal allows the extraction of the exact eigenvalues of the adjoint scalar in the confining vacuum and hence computes all related condensates of the finite-N gauge theory. We extend these results to include Leigh-Strassler deformations of the = 4 theory.
59440238
Vacuum structure and flavor symmetry breaking in supersymmetric SO(nc) gauge theories
We determine the vacuum structure and phases of N=1 theories obtained via a 
mass \mu for the adjoint chiral superfield in N=2, SO(n_c) SQCD. For large 
number of flavors these theories have two groups of vacua. The first exhibits 
dynamical breaking of flavor symmetry \USp(2n_f) \to U(n_f) and arises as a 
relevant deformation of a non-trivial superconformal theory. These are in the 
confined phase. The second group, in an IR-free phase with unbroken flavor 
symmetry, is produced from a Coulomb branch singularity with Seiberg's dual 
gauge symmetry. In the large-\mu regime both groups of vacua are well-described 
by dual quarks and mesons, and dynamical symmetry breaking in the first group 
occurs via meson condensation. We follow the description of these vacua from 
weak to strong coupling and demonstrate a nontrivial agreement between the 
phases and the number of vacua in the two regimes. We construct the 
semiclassical monopole flavor multiplets and argue that their multiplicity is 
consistent with the number of N=1 vacua.
5243610
Non-Abelian Vortices at Weak and Strong Coupling in Mass Deformed ABJM Theory
We find half-BPS vortex solitons, at both weak and strong coupling, in the = 6 supersymmetric mass deformation of ABJM theory with U(N) × U(N) gauge symmetry and Chern-Simons level k. The strong coupling gravity dual is obtained by performing a k quotient of the = 8 supersymmetric eleven dimensional supergravity background of Lin, Lunin and Maldacena corresponding to the mass deformed M2-brane theory. At weak coupling, the BPS vortices preserving six supersymmetries are found in the Higgs vacuum of the theory where the gauge symmetry is broken to U(1) × U(1). The classical vortex solitons break a colour-flavour locked global symmetry resulting in non-Abelian internal orientational moduli and a CP1 moduli space of solutions. At strong coupling and large k, upon reduction to type IIA strings, the vortex moduli space and its action are computed by a probe D0-brane in the dual geometry. The mass of the D0-brane matches the classical vortex mass. However, the gravity picture exhibits a six dimensional moduli space of solutions, a section of which can be identified as the CP1 we find classically, along with a Dirac monopole connection of strength k. It is likely that the extra four dimensions in the moduli space are an artifact of the strong coupling limit and of the supergravity approximation.
17544914
Precision test of AdS/CFT in Lunin-Maldacena background
We obtain the solutions and explicitly calculate the energy for a class of two-spin semiclassical string states in the Lunin-Maldacena background. These configurations are the β-deformed versions of the folded string solutions in AdS5 × S5 background. They correspond to certain single trace operators in the = 1 superconformal β deformation of = 4 Yang-Mills. We calculate the one loop anomalous dimension for the dual single trace operators from the associated twisted spin chain with a general two-cut distribution of Bethe roots. Our results show a striking match between the two calculations. We demonstrate the natural identification of parameters on the two sides of the analysis, and explain the significance of the Virasoro constraint associated with the winding motion of semiclassical strings from the perspective of the spin chain solution.
56266055
Effect of spatial constraints on fragment production
Multifragmentation is the most extensively studied phenomena in this energy domain. In the past people have tried to develop various methods of clusterization[1]. Among these methods minimum spanning tree[1] is one of the fastest method. In the present study our aim is to understand the role of spatial constraints on fragmentation.
15230645
Critical generation of soliton mode in a gauged O(3) sigma model with interpolating potential
We show that a new soliton mode is generated in a gauged sigma model with interpolating potential when the interpolation parameter decreases below a critical value. pradip@boson.bose.res.in kumar@boson.bose.res.in Recently a class of gauged O(3) sigma models in three dimensions have been studied [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] where a U(1) subgroup of the O(3) symmetry of the model was gauged by coupling the sigma model fields with a gauge field through the corresponding U(1) current. This is different from the minimal coupling via the topological current discussed previously [6]. The motivation behind the new gauged O(3) sigma models was to break the scale invariance of the self dual solutions of the usual O(3) sigma model [7]. Initially the gauge field dynamics was assumed to be dictated by the Maxwell term [1]. Later the extension of the model with the Chern Simons coupling was investigated [2]. A particular form of self interaction was required to be included in these models in order to saturate the Bogomol’nyi bounds [8]. The form of the assumed self interaction potential is of crucial importance. The minima of the potential determine the vaccum structure of the theory. The solutions change remarkably when the vaccum structure exhibits spontaneous breaking of the symmetry of the gauge group. Thus it was demonstrated that the observed degeneracy of the solutions of [1, 2] is lifted when potentials with symmetry breaking minima were incorporated [4, 5]. A generalisation of the models [1, 2] was proposed in [3]where an adjustable real parameter v was introduced in the expression of the self interaction potential. Detailed solutions of the model with the C S coupling were provided. The parameter v interpolates between the symmetric and symmetry breaking phases. The inclusion of such adjustable potential in the corresponding Maxwell coupled model was conjectured, but not fully explored. In this letter we show that this generalisation indeed leads to certain important consequences. The most interesting outcome is a kind of ’critical phenomenon’ where a new self dual soliton mode emerges when the parameter v decreases below v = 1. It will be useful to start with a brief review of the nonlinear O(3) sigma model [7]. The lagrangian of the model is given by, L = 1 2 ∂μφ · ∂ φ (1) Here φ is a triplet of scalar fields constituting a vector in the internal space with unit norm φa = na · φ, (a = 1, 2, 3) (2) φ · φ = φaφa = 1 (3) The vectors na constitute a basis of unit orthogonal vectors in the internal space. We work in the Minkowskian space time with the metric tensor diagonal, gμν = (1,−1,−1). The finite energy solutions of the model (1) satisfies the boundary condition limφ = φa(0) (4) at physiacal infinity. The condition (4) corresponds to one point compactification of the physical infinity. The physical space R2 becomes topologically equivalent to S2 due to this compactification. The static finite energy solutions of the model are then maps from this sphere to the internal sphere. Such solutions are classified by the homotopy [9]
119296892
STRING COSMOLOGY IN ANISOTROPIC BIANCHI-II SPACETIME
The present study deals with a spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi-II cosmological model representing massive strings. The energy–momentum tensor, as formulated by Letelier,10 has been used to construct a massive string cosmological model for which the expansion scalar is proportional to one of the components of shear tensor. The Einstein's field equations have been solved by applying a variation law for generalized Hubble's parameter that yields a constant value of deceleration parameter in Bianchi-II spacetime. A comparative study of accelerating and decelerating modes of the evolution of universe has been carried out in the presence of string scenario. The study reveals that massive strings dominate the early Universe. The strings eventually disappear from the Universe for sufficiently large times, which is in agreement with the current astronomical observations.
117283830
Isospin effects on fragment production
To understand the isospin effects in nearly symmetric nuclear matter we performed a complete systematical theoretical study within an Isospin dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamical Model (IQMD) and using Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm. Simulations are carried out for the reactions $_{124}Sn^{50}+_{124}Sn^{50}$ and $_{107}Sn^{50}+_{124}Sn^{50}$. The collision geometry is varied from central to peripheral. We find that neutron rich colliding nuclei are better candidate to study the isospin effects
118388108
Influence of charge asymmetry and isospin dependent cross-section on elliptical flow
Using the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model, we study the effect of charge asymmetry and isospin-dependent cross section on different aspects of elliptical flow. Simulations are carried out for the reactions of ${}_{\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}{z}_{1}}^{124}{\text{X}}_{n}{+}_{\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}{z}_{1}}^{124}{\text{X}}_{n}$, where ${z}_{1}$ $=$ 47, 50, 53, 57, and 59 and ${}_{{z}_{2}}^{40}{\text{Y}}_{n}{+}_{{z}_{2}}^{40}{\text{Y}}_{n}$, where ${z}_{2}$ $=$ 14, 16, 18, 21 and 23. Our study shows that the elliptical flow depends strongly on the nature of the cross section. Transition energy, on the other hand, is unaffected by the neutron content.