Effective scalar field theory for the electroweak phase transition

We investigate an effective model for the finite-temperature symmetry-restoration phase transition of the electroweak theory. It is obtained by dimensional reduction of the (3 + 1)-dimensional full theory and by subsequent integration over all static gauge degrees of freedom. The resulting theory corresponds to a 3-dimensional O(4) ferromagnet containing cubic and quartic terms of the field in its potential function. Possible nonperturbative effects of a magnetic screening mass are parametrically included in the potential. We analyse the theory using mean-field and numerical Monte Carlo (MC) simulation methods. At the value of the physical Higgs mass, m_H = 37 GeV, considered in the present investigation, we find a discontinuous symmetry-restoring phase transition. We determine the critical temperature, order parameter jump, interface tension and latent heat characteristics of the transition. The Monte Carlo results indicate a somewhat weaker first-order phase transition as compared to the mean-field treatment, demonstrating that non-perturbative fluctuations of the Higgs field are relevant. This effect is especially important for the interface tension. Any observation of hard first-order transition could result only from non-perturbative effects related to the gauge degrees of freedom.     

Nonlinear analysis of an improved continuum model considering mean-field velocity difference

Based on the velocity gradient model, an extended continuum model with consideration of the mean-field velocity difference is proposed in this paper. By using the linear stability theory, the linear stability criterion of the new model is gained, which proved that mean-field velocity difference has significant influence on stability of traffic flow. The KdV–Burgers equation is derived by using non-linear analysis method and the evolution of density wave near the neutral stability line is explored. Numerical simulations are carried out how mean-field velocity difference affect the stability of traffic flow, and energy consumption is also studied for this new macro model. At the same time, complicated traffic phenomena such as local cluster effects, shock waves and rarefaction waves can be reproduced in the new model by numerical simulation. Numerical results are consistent with the theoretical analysis, which indicates that the mean-field velocity difference not only suppresses traffic jam, but also depresses energy consumption.     

Construction of analytically tractable mean-field theories for quantum models

A general theoretical framework for the construction of maximally complex, yet analytically tractable mean-field theories for quantum-mechanical models is presented. These mean-field theories fulfil several strict conditions which are derived from analogous theories in classical statistical mechanics. In particular, they are thermodynamically consistent, conserving approximations and provide exact bounds on the free energy of the original model. The formalism is used to construct a mean-field theory for the Hubbard model in thestrong-coupling limit.     

Self-consistent Mean-Field Theory of Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferrornagnet

A self-consistent mean-field theory for the two-dimensional spin-1/2 XY-Heisenberg an tiferromagnet without long-range-order is developed. Within this theoretical framework, the thermodynamic properties, such as the internal energy, specific heat and parallel susceptibility, are discussed, and the results are in rough agreement with the numerical simulation.     

Purely quadrupolar spin-1 Ising model in a transverse field

A quantum Ising-like spin-1 model characterized by quadrupolar interaction, coupled to an external anisotropic field with both dipole and quadrupole momenta is analyzed. The general phase diagram (including temperature), as well as order parameter, specific heat, and susceptibility are evaluated in the mean-field approximation and exibit a rich structure with transitions of 2° and 1° order and tricritical points. ForT=0 the phase diagram is examined also by a recently formulated improved version of mean-field theory which has the usual mean-field theory as its zero-th order approximation.     

基于平均场支持向量机的混沌时间序列预测

提出了一种新的基于支持向量机的混沌时间序列预测方法，该方法利用平均场理论使支持向量机的学习过程变得简单高效。同时由于该方法将支持向量机的参数近似为高斯分布的，因此采用平均场理论能够容易的求解这些参数，这样获得的支持向量机的参数比传统的基于二次规划的算法更加精确，而且学习速度更快。最后利用该方法对嵌入维数与模型的泛化能力关系进行了探讨，并利用Mackey-Glass时间序列对该方法进行了验证，结果表明：该预测方法能精确地预测混沌时间序列,而且在混沌时间序列的嵌入维数未知时也能取得比较好的预测效果.这一结论预示着平均场支持向量机是一种研究混沌时间序列的有效方法.     

An Improved Heterogeneous Mean-Field Theory for the Ising Model on Complex Networks

Heterogeneous mean-field theory is commonly used methodology to study dynamical processes on complex networks,such as epidemic spreading and phase transitions in spin models.In this paper,we propose an improved heterogeneous mean-field theory for studying the Ising model on complex networks.Our method shows a more accurate prediction in the critical temperature of the Ising model than the previous heterogeneous mean-field theory.The theoretical results are validated by extensive Monte Carlo simulations in various types of networks.     

Microcanonical Analysis of Exactness of the Mean-Field Theory in Long-Range Interacting Systems

Classical spin systems with nonadditive long-range interactions are studied in the microcanonical ensemble. It is expected that the entropy of such a system is identical to that of the corresponding mean-field model, which is called “exactness of the mean-field theory”. It is found out that this expectation is not necessarily true if the microcanonical ensemble is not equivalent to the canonical ensemble in the mean-field model. Moreover, necessary and sufficient conditions for exactness of the mean-field theory are obtained. These conditions are investigated for two concrete models, the α-Potts model with annealed vacancies and the α-Potts model with invisible states.     

Fluctuation-driven quantum phase transitions in clean itinerant ferromagnets

The quantum phase transition in clean itinerant ferromagnets is analyzed. It is shown that soft particle-hole modes invalidate Hertz's mean-field theory for d< or =3. A renormalized mean-field theory predicts a fluctuation-induced first order transition for 1相似文献   

Response in kinetic Ising model to oscillating magnetic fields

Ising models obeying Glauber dynamics in a temporally oscillating magnetic field are analyzed. In the context of stochastic resonance, the response in the magnetization is calculated by means of both a mean-field theory with linear-response approximation, and the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation. Analytic results for the temperature and frequency dependent response, including the resonance temperature, compare favorably with simulation data.     

High precision mean-field results for lattice gauge theories: with special attention paid to the gauge dependence of mean-field perturbation theory to finite order

We do mean-field perturbation theory for U(1) lattice gauge theory in the axial gauge, and evaluate corrections from fluctuations up to fourth order for the free energy and plaquette energy. Comparing with similar results previously obtained in the Feynman gauge we find, to those orders studied, a gauge dependence of the size of the first correction term neglected with one exception. This gauge dependence decreases rapidly as the order of the approximation is increased. To any finite order, results in axial gauge are better approximations than results in the Feynman gauge. We speculate why. Assuming it to be generally true, we evaluate the first correction beyond the one-loop mean-field approximation to the free energy of SU(2) gauge theory with Wilson action in the axial gauge. This correction brings the mean-field result very close to Monte Carlo results for β > 1.6. It also makes the mean-field result identical, within a narrow margin, to ressumed strong coupling results in the interval 1.6 < β < 2.4, thus showing the absence of a phase transition.For both groups studied, we find that the asymptotic series of mean-field perturbation theory give much better approximations than do ordinary weak coupling series.     

Feshbach共振下BCS-BEC渡越量子分析

考虑一个涵盖分子间相互作用的多体模型,给出一种半解析计算模型中费米原子对转化成玻色分子转化率的有效方法.这种方法主要使用独立交叉近似,并在平均场理论下推导出一个精确计算转化率的解析公式.对比分析证明,该解析公式的计算结果得到多体模型的数值分析的支持,并与Rice小组的⁶Li实验能够很好的吻合.     

Derivation and classical limit of the mean-field equation for a quantum Coulomb system: Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics

The mean-field density matrix of a changed plasma of quantum particles with Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics in a confining external potential is obtained as a limit of theN-body canonical states for suitably scaled charges. Also, it is shown that the density profile of the quantum mean-field theory converges to the solution of the classical mean-field equation when the Planck's constant tends to zero.     

自动巡航混合交通系统的研究

基于自动驾驶原理,建立了单车道上由两种长度、可分别以不同的最大速度行驶、具有自动巡航驾驶功能的车辆构成的混合交通流模型.通过计算机数值模拟,得到了混合车流在不同参数下交通流模型的基本图,并借助平均场理论对其进行解析.得到的理论结果与实验模拟相一致. 关键词： 元胞自动机 自动巡航控制系统 临界占用率 临界密度     

Jordan-Wigner approach to the frustrated spin one-half XXZ chain

The Jordan-Wigner transformation is applied to study the ground state properties and dimerization transition in the J₁-J₂ XXZ chain. We consider different solutions of the mean-field approximation for the transformed Hamiltonian. Ground state energy and the static structure factor are compared with complementary exact diagonalization and good agreement is found near the limit of the Majumdar-Ghosh model. Furthermore, the ground state phase diagram is discussed within the mean-field theory. In particular, we show that an incommensurate ground state is absent for large J₂ in a fully self-consistent mean-field analysis.     

Sandpile on scale-free networks

We investigate the avalanche dynamics of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld sandpile model on scale-free (SF) networks, where the threshold height of each node is distributed heterogeneously, given as its own degree. We find that the avalanche size distribution follows a power law with an exponent tau. Applying the theory of the multiplicative branching process, we obtain the exponent tau and the dynamic exponent z as a function of the degree exponent gamma of SF networks as tau=gamma divided by (gamma-1) and z=(gamma-1) divided by (gamma-2) in the range 23, with a logarithmic correction at gamma=3. The analytic solution supports our numerical simulation results. We also consider the case of a uniform threshold, finding that the two exponents reduce to the mean-field ones.     

Expansion dynamics of an array of high density Bose-Einstein condensates produced in a 1D CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> laser optical lattice

We discuss the expansion dynamics under mean-field repulsion of an array of ⁸⁷Rb Bose-Einstein condensates produced in an all-optical scheme involving 1D lattice with nearly 10⁵ atoms, after fast evaporative cooling of just about 1 s. Single site occupation exceeds 2 × 10⁴ in our experiments. The possibility of transition to two-dimensionality was also investigated. The expansion behavior of the high density multiple micro-condensates produced directly in the CO₂ laser 1D optical lattice, with a lattice spacing of 5.3 μm, agrees well with a numerical simulation based on the mean-field theory.     

Microscopic Studies on Ground State Properties of the Nucleus 100Sn

The average binding energy,the radius of proton distributions and the radius of neutron distributions for the nucleus ¹⁰⁰Sn have been calculated by the relativistic mean-field theory and the nonrelativistic mean-field theory.The numerical results by two methods have been compared and discussed.This is the first microscopic calculation on ¹⁰⁰Sn.     

Self-consistent normal ordering of gauge field theories

Mean field theories with a real action of unconstrained fields can be self-consistently normal ordered. This leads to a considerable improvement over standard mean-field theory. This concept is applied to lattice gauge theories. We construct first an appropriate real action mean-field theory. The equations determining the Gaussian kernel necessary for self-consistent normal ordering of this mean-field theory are derived.Invited talk presented at the International Conference Selected Topics in Quantum Field Theory and Mathematical Physics, Bechyn, Czechoslovakia, June 23–27, 1986.