Total Hadronic Cross-Section Data and the Froissart–Martin Bound

The energy dependence of the total hadronic cross section at high energies is investigated with focus on the recent experimental result by the Total Elastic and Diffractive Cross-section Measurement Collaboration at 7?TeV and the Froissart?CMartin bound. On the basis of a class of analytical parametrization with the exponent ?? in the leading logarithm contribution as a free parameter, different variants of fits to pp and $\bar{\textrm{p}}$ p total cross-section data above 5?GeV are developed. Two ensembles are considered, the first comprising data up to 1.8?TeV and the second also including the data collected at 7?TeV. We show that in all fit variants applied to the first ensemble, the exponent is statistically consistent with ???=?2. Applied to the second ensemble, however, the same variants yield ?? values above 2, a result already obtained in two other analysis, by Amaldi et al. and by the UA4/2 Collaboration. As recently discussed by Azimov, this faster-than-squared-logarithm rise does not necessarily violate unitarity. Our results suggest that the energy dependence of the hadronic total cross section at high energies still constitutes an open problem.     

The Norm Convergence of the Trotter–Kato Product Formula with Error Bound

The norm convergence of the Trotter–Kato product formula with error bound is shown for the semigroup generated by that operator sum of two nonnegative selfadjoint operators A and B which is selfadjoint.An erratum to this article can be found at     

Bound diquarks and their Bose–Einstein condensation in strongly coupled quark matter

We explore the formation of diquark bound states and their Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) in the phase diagram of three-flavor quark matter at nonzero temperature, T, and quark chemical potential, μ  . Using a quark model with a four-fermion interaction, we identify diquark excitations as poles of the microscopically computed diquark propagator. The quark masses are obtained by solving a dynamical equation for the chiral condensate and are found to determine the stability of the diquark excitations. The stability of diquark excitations is investigated in the T–μ$T\text{–}\mu$ plane for different values of the diquark coupling strength. We find that diquark bound states appear at small quark chemical potentials and at intermediate coupling strengths. Bose–Einstein condensation of non-strange diquark states occurs when the attractive interaction between quarks is sufficiently strong.     

Inverting the Nakanishi Integral Relation for a Bound State Euclidean Bethe–Salpeter Amplitude

The extraction of the weight function g of the Nakanishi integral representation of the Bethe–Salpeter amplitude is investigated. We studied the numerical inversion of the discretized Nakanishi kernel in the case of an Euclidean bound state. The discretized kernel is regularized by adding the identity operator times a small regularisation parameter \({\varepsilon}\) to avoid numerically unstabilities. We have found that the weight function g as well as the associated light-front valence wave function are unstable against variation of \({\varepsilon}\). These results suggest that the extraction of the Nakanishi weight function from an Euclidean amplitude, is an ill-defined problem. Without further assumptions on the solution or/and without developing more elaborate methods, the Nakanishi weight function, as well as the corresponding light-front valence wave function, cannot be safely determined.     

The Tightness of the Kesten–Stigum Reconstruction Bound of Symmetric Model with Multiple Mutations

It is well known that reconstruction problems, as the interdisciplinary subject, have been studied in numerous contexts including statistical physics, information theory and computational biology, to name a few. We consider a 2q-state symmetric model, with two categories of q states in each category, and 3 transition probabilities: the probability to remain in the same state, the probability to change states but remain in the same category, and the probability to change categories. We construct a nonlinear second-order dynamical system based on this model and show that the Kesten–Stigum reconstruction bound is not tight when \(q \ge 4\).     

Study of the asymptotic Cramér–Rao Bound for the COLD uniform linear array

In this paper, we study the Cocentered Orthogonal Loop and Dipole pairs Uniform Linear Array (COLD-ULA) which is sensitive to the source polarization in the context of the localization of time-varying narrow-band far-field sources. We derive and analyze nonmatrix expressions of the deterministic Cramér–Rao Bound (${\text{CRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$) for the direction and the polarization parameters under the assumption that all the sources are lying in the azimuthal plane. We denote this bound by ${\text{ACRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$, where the “A” stands for Asymptotic, meaning that the presented results are derived under the assumption that the number of sensors is sufficiently large. While, to our knowledge, closed-form (nonmatrix) expressions of the ${\text{CRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$ for multiple time-varying polarized sources signal do not exist in the literature, we show that the ${\text{ACRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$ takes a closed-form (nonmatrix) expression in this context and is a good approximation of the ${\text{CRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$ even if the number of sensor is moderate (about ten), if the source signals are not spatially too close. Our approach has two important advantages: (i) the computational complexity of the proposed closed-form of the bound is very low, compared to the brute force computation of a matrix-based deterministic CRB in case of time-varying model parameters and (ii) useful informations can be deduced from the closed-form expression on the behavior of the bound. In particular, we prove that the ${\text{ACRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$ for the direction parameter is not affected by the knowledge or the lack of it concerning the polarization parameters. Another conclusion is that with a COLD-ULA, more model parameters can be estimated than for the uniformly polarized ULA without degrading the estimation accuracy of the localization parameter. Finally, we also study the ${\text{ACRB}}^{\mathrm{(COLD)}}$ for a priori known complex amplitudes.     

ηc-Nuclear Bound States

The heavy-quarkonium nuclear bound states are recalculated by solving the Klein-Gordon equations.We find that the η_c(2980) can be bound in the nucleus.But the binding energies are in general quite different from that found by Brodsky et al.     

Relativistic Bound and Scattering Amplitude of Spinless Particles in Modified Schioberg Plus Manning–Rosen Potentials

By using an approximation for the centrifugal term, we study relativistic bound and scattering states of spin-zero particles in the presence of equal scalar and vector modified Schioberg plus Manning–Rosen potentials for any quantum numbers n and l. Energy eigenvalues and the scattering amplitude are calculated. Some special cases of the problem are also investigated.     

A Rigorous Upper Bound on the Propagation Speed for the Swift–Hohenberg and Related Equations

We prove that if the initial condition of the Swift–Hohenberg equation $$\partial _t u(x,t) = (\varepsilon ^2 - (1 + \partial _x^2 )^2 ){\text{ }}u(x,t) - u^3 (x,t)$$ is bounded in modulus by Ce ^?βx as x→+∞, the solution cannot propagate to the right with a speed greater than $$\mathop {\sup }\limits_{0 < {\gamma } \leqslant \beta } {\gamma }^{ - 1} (\varepsilon ^2 + 4{\gamma }^2 + 8{\gamma }^4 ).$$ This settles a long-standing conjecture about the possible asymptotic propagation speed of the Swift–Hohenberg equation. The proof does not use the maximum principle and is simple enough to generalize easily to other equations. We illustrate this with an example of a modified Ginzburg–Landau equation, where the critical speed is not determined by the linearization alone.     

Approximate Relativistic Bound State Solutions of the Tietz–Hua Rotating Oscillator for Any κ-State

Approximate analytical solutions of the Dirac equation with Tietz–Hua (TH) potential are obtained for arbitrary spin–orbit quantum number κ using the Pekeris approximation scheme to deal with the spin–orbit coupling terms κ(κ ± 1)r ^?2. In the presence of exact spin and pseudo-spin symmetric limitation, the bound state energy eigenvalues and associated two-component wave functions of the Dirac particle moving in the field of attractive and repulsive TH potential are obtained using the parametric generalization of the Nikiforov–Uvarov method. The cases of the Morse potential, the generalized Morse potential and non-relativistic limits are studied.     

Bound states of two-dimensional relativistic harmonic oscillators

We give the exact normalized bound state wavefunctions and energy expressions of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations with equal scalar and vector harmonic oscillator potentials in the two-dimensional space.     

Second Bound State of Biexcitons in Quantum Dots

The second bound state of the biexcitons in a quantum dot,with orbital angular moentum L=1,is reported.BY using the method of few-body physics,the binding energy spectra of the second bound state of a biexciton in a GaAs quantum dot with a parabolic confinement have been calculated as a function of the electron-to-hole mass ratio and the quantum dot size.The fact that the biexcitions have a second bound state may aid in the better understanding of their binding mechanism.     

Bound state solutions of the Dirac equation with the Deng–Fan potential including a Coulomb tensor interaction

Approximate analytical solutions of the Dirac equation in the case of pseudospin and spin symmetry limits are inves- tigated under the Deng-Fan potential by applying the asymptotic iteration method for the arbitrary quantum numbers n and ~~. Some of the numerical results are also represented in both pseudospin symmetry and spin symmetry limits.     

Schrödinger Operators with Few Bound States

We show that whole-line Schrödinger operators with finitely many bound states have no embedded singular spectrum. In contradistinction, we show that embedded singular spectrum is possible even when the bound states approach the essential spectrum exponentially fast. We also prove the following result for one- and two-dimensional Schrödinger operators, H, with bounded positive ground states: Given a potential V, if both H±V are bounded from below by the ground-state energy of H, then V≡0.D. D. was supported in part by NSF grant DMS–0227289.R. K. was supported in part by NSF grant DMS–0401277.B. S. was supported in part by NSF grant DMS–0140592.     

Decay of the Bethe–Salpeter Kernel and Bound States for Lattice Classical Ferromagnetic Spin Systems at High Temperature

We consider lattice classical ferromagnetic spin systems at high temperature (1) with nearest neighbor interactions and even single-spin distributions (ssd). Associated with each system is an imaginary time lattice quantum field theory. It is known that there is a particle of mass m–ln in the energy-momentum spectrum. If s ⁴–3s ²²<0, where s ^k is the kth moment of the ssd, and is sufficiently small, we show that in the two-particle subspace there is no mass spectrum up to 2m. For >0 we show that the only mass spectrum in (m, 2m) is a bound state of mass m _b=2m+ln(1–)+O(), where =(+2s ²²)^–1. A bound on the decay of the kernel of a Bethe–Salpeter equation is obtained and used to prove these results.     

Holographic Entropy Bound of a Nonstationary Black Hole

In accordance with the holographic principle, by counting the states of the scalar field just at the event horizon of the Vaidya-Bonner black hole, the holographic entropy bound of the black hole is calculated and the Bekenstein- Hawking formula is obtained, With the generalized uncertainty principle, the divergence of state density at event horizon in the ordinary quantum field theory is removed, With the residue theorem, the integral trouble in the calculation is overcome. The present result is quantitatively tenable and the holographic principle is realized by applying the quantum field theory to the black hole entropy problem. Compared with some previous works, it is suggested that the quantum states contributing to black hole entropy should be restricted on the event horizon.     

Fermion Bound States Around Skyrmions in Doped Antiferromagnets

We show the skyrmion effects in doped antiferromagnets for the uniform flux phase. The low-energy effective theory of the t‘ - J model can be mapped onto the massive quantum electrodynamics. There exist Fermion bound states around skyrmions. For each sublattice, there exist induced fractional fermion numbers around the skyrmions. The total induced fermion number is zero due to the “cancelling effect“ between two sublattices with Opposite charges.