Nondiagonal radiative (v i v jγ) interactions in an external field

Radiative v_j v_i and v_lv_j transitions of massive Dirac neutrinos are studied in the field of a linearly polarized wave and in a constant crossed field within the framework of an invariant procedure being developed for calculations in plane-wave-type fields. It is shown that with the upper bound used for the anomalous magnetic moment of the neutrinos, consideration of the external field may be decisive in the case of the v_j v_i (m_j>m_i) photodecay, with possible nontrivial consequences in the astrophysical aspect.Moscow State Open Pedagogical Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 11–17, July, 1994.     

The free energy of a class of Hopfield models

We show that in the limitp ,N 0,=p/N 0 the limit free energy of the Hopfield model equals in probability the Curie-Weiss free energy. We prove also that the free energy of the Hopfield model is self-averaging for any finite .     

R andRτ ratios at the five-loop level of perturbative QCD

We study perturbative QCD at the five-loop level. In particular we considerR = _tot(e ⁺ e ^– hadrons)/(e ⁺ e ^{– + –}) andR = ( v+hadrons)/( ev). We use our method to estimate the five-loop coefficients. As a result, we obtain _s (M _z ) = 0.1186(11) and _s (34 GeV) = 0.1396(16), which are accurate at the 1% level. We also findR = 3.8350(18), which is consistent withR and is accurate to 0.05%.     

Variance calculations and the Bessel kernel

In the Laguerre ensembleof n xN Hermitian matrices, it is of interest both theoretically and for applications to quantum transport problems to compute the variance of a linear statistic, denoted var_N f, asN . Furthermore, this statistic often contains an additional parameter a for which the limit is most interesting and most difficult to compute numerically. We derive exact expressions for both lim_N var_N f and lim , lim_N var_N f.     

The Percolation Transition for the Zero-Temperature Stochastic Ising Model on the Hexagonal Lattice

On the planar hexagonal lattice , we analyze the Markov process whose state (t), in , updates each site v asynchronously in continuous time t0, so that _v (t) agrees with a majority of its (three) neighbors. The initial _v (0)'s are i.i.d. with P[ _v (0)=+1]=p[0,1]. We study, both rigorously and by Monte Carlo simulation, the existence and nature of the percolation transition as t and p1/2. Denoting by ⁺(t,p) the expected size of the plus cluster containing the origin, we (1) prove that ⁺(,1/2)= and (2) study numerically critical exponents associated with the divergence of ⁺(,p) as p1/2. A detailed finite-size scaling analysis suggests that the exponents and of this t= (dependent) percolation model have the same values, 4/3 and 43/18, as standard two-dimensional independent percolation. We also present numerical evidence that the rate at which (t)() as t is exponential.     

First-order transitions in spherical models: Finite-size scaling

Finite-size behavior near the first-order phase boundary of ferromagnetic spherical models is investigated for block- and cylinder-shaped systems ind dimensions. The bulk thermodynamic singularities are rounded and, asymptotically for large size, obey appropriate scaling laws. Both short-range interactions and long-range couplings, decaying like 1/r^d+ with >0, are analyzed: the short-range results agree precisely with a recently developed scaling theory forO(n) symmetric systems in the limitn. More generally, the scaling functions are universal, depending only on . Explicit aspects of the shape and interactions enter only in the spin wave or Goldstone mode contributions which appear, technically, as corrections to scaling. An appendix analyzes the truncation error in the approximation, by many-fold sums, of multivariate integrals with integrands diverging like [_ja_{j j} ² ]^- as 0.     

Resonance interaction of antineutrinos with electrons

Expressions are given for the cross sections of the processes v_ee v and v_ee v _e ^' e' from the viewpoint of the hypothesis of weak interactions via intermediary vector mesons taking separate account of the polarizations of the electron target and the muon (electron) emission. An analysis is given of the cross sections of processes which are admissible according to both the two- and four-component theories of the neutrino. The degree of longitudinal polarization of meson emission is also determined for the interaction of incident antineutrinos (neutrinos) with a polarized target in the processes ve v, ve⁺ v⁺.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, No. 6, pp. 48–53, June, 1971.The author is grateful to B. K. Kerimov for his useful advice which stimulated the appearance of this work and also to Yu. M. Kasumov for his constant assistance with the work.     

Spectral superbroadening of self-focused picosecond laser pulses in D2O

Intense picosecond light pulses of a mode-locked Nd: glass laser at _L =1054 nm (fundamental wavelength) and _SH =527 nm (second harmonic wavelength) are passed through a sample of D₂O under self-focusing conditions. Spectrally structured superbroadened, spatially bell-shaped emission in the forward direction is obtained. Primary generation processes are pump-pulse-degenerate stimulated parametric four-photon interaction (₁ + _{1 3} + ₄) and stimulated Raman scattering (_{1 R} + ), which occur concurrently (₁= _L or _SH angular pump frequency, #x03C9; _R first Stokes frequency, #x03C9; signal frequency, #x03C9;₃ signal frequency, #x03C9;₄ idler frequency). The parametric four-photon interaction occurs under collinear non-phase-matched conditions and under longitudinally phase-matched, transversally non-phase-matched (erenkov-like) conditions. Subsequent interaction processes are pump-pulse-nondegenerate four-photon interaction of the type ₁ + _{R 3} + ₄, coherent antiStokes Raman scattering (CARS, ₁ + ₁ – _{4 3}), inverse Raman scattering ( _A + ₁ + ), and cascading light up-conversion of the type ₁ + _(i) – _{R (i+1)}.     

Energy spectrum and angular distribution of muons from the decay of heavy leptons produced in colliding electron-positron beams

On the basis of an arbitrary (V, A) structure of the neutral weak ¯ee and LL currents (L=^–, M⁰) a study is made of the processes of production in colliding electron-positron beams of pairs of heavy leptons with subsequent decays in accordance with the schemes e⁺e^––(µ^–v_µv) + ⁺( anything) and e⁺e^–M⁰(µ^–e⁺v_e) + M⁰( anything). The energy spectrum and asymmetry of the distribution of the produced muons are investigated.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 66–70, February, 1981.     

Multiparticle fractal aggregation

Kinetic fractal aggregation in a particle bath where a fractionf of the sites are initially occupied is studied withd=2 computer simulations. Independent particles diffusing to a fixed cluster produce an aggregate with fractal dimensionD 1.7 up to a correlation length(f). At larger lengthsD2.(f) asf 0. When the particles remain fixed but the cluster undergoes a rigid random walkD appears constant at larger scales but varies withf. D 1.95 at largef andD 1.7 asf 0. In both cases, the aggregate sizeN(t) grows with timet ^(f) . Aggregation on a surface by independently diffusing particles produces shapes reminiscent of electrochemical dendritic growth. The dependence of growth rate and geometry is studied as a function of particle concentration and sticking probability.     

Rate equations in the hopping transport

The usual kinetic equations for the site occupation probabilities in an external field are solved exactly in a simple one-dimensional periodic model with two kinds of atoms using a) free boundary conditions and order of limitsN, 0 needed for a proper treatment of the dc conductivity here b) boundary conditions with metallic contacts and order of limitsN, 0 and c) the same boundary conditions but reversed order of limiting processes 0,N typical of e.g. numerical and percolation treatments. (N and are the number of sites and frequency.) It is demonstrated that though the bulk dc conductivity is the same in all three cases, local bulk properties of the material are strongly dependent on the régime used. The role of the order of all three limiting processes 0,N+ andn+ (N–n+) for local shifts of the chemical potential _n in the dc limit is examined (n is the number of the relevant site calculated from a boundary of the chain). It is shown especially that the rate equation treatment (régime a) on the one hand and numerical or percolation treatments (régime c) on the other hand never yield the same bulk values of _r.     

On the pointwise behavior of semi-classical measures

In this paper we concern ourselves with the small asymptotics of the inner products of the eigenfunctions of a Schrödinger-type operator with a coherent state. More precisely, let _j and E _j denote the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of a Schrödinger-type operator H with discrete spectrum. Let _(x,) be a coherent state centered at the point (x, ) in phase space. We estimate as 0 the averages of the squares of the inner products ( _a ^(x,) , _j ) over an energy interval of size around a fixed energy, E. This follows from asymptotic expansions of the form for certain test function and Schwartz amplitudes a of the coherent state. We compute the leading coefficient in the expansion, which depends on whether the classical trajectory through (x, ) is periodic or not. In the periodic case the iterates of the trajectory contribute to the leading coefficient. We also discuss the case of the Laplacian on a compact Riemannian manifold.Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9303778     

π0 → γγ in the Spinor Strong Interaction Theory

An expression for the decay rate (⁰ ) has been derived in the frameworkof the spinor strong interaction theory, a first-principles strong interaction theoryproposed some years ago as an alternative to low-energy QCD. The startingpoint is the SO(3) gauge-invariant action for two quark mesons which has beensuccessful in accounting for confinement, ^{+ +} , e⁺, and ⁰ e⁺, nonexistenceof the Higgs boson, and other low-energy mesonic phenomena. The quasi-four-quarkmeson equations developed for the decay of a vector meson into twopseudoscalar mesons V PP has been taken over here to apply to P(⁰) VV(^{+ –}) (plus ⁺ and ^– which annihilate each other). This mechanismin principle agrees with that of the assumption of vector meson dominance inthe literature. It, together with the effect of form factors, arises naturally in theformalism and need not be assumed. Equations for the perturbed vector mesonwave functions cannot be simply solved and an assumption has been made toobtain an estimate of their magnitude. Together with a constant associated withthe strong coupling obtained earlier from V() PP(K⁺K^–), the estimated decayrate is 19.2 eV, in order-of-magnitude agreement with data (7.74 eV).     

Experimental study of cw carbon monoxide flame chemical laser of the CS2/O2/CO2 type

The performance of a continuous-wave (cw) CO flame chemical laser (FCL) of the CS₂/O₂/CO₂ type is presented. The laser gives up to 0.7 W cw output power on a number ofP _v (J) lines corresponding to 1110, ..., 76 vibrational bands of CO molecule. The measured values of chemical efficiency based on the reaction O+CSCO^*(v)+S and the specific power are 0.1% and 0.7J/g, respectively. The spectral composition of the CO FCL of the CS₂/O₂/CO₂ type shows lasing in the region from 5.194 to 5.573 m. All experimental measurements are conducted with a nondispersive optical cavity.     

Phase Transformations α → β → γ → δ → ε in Titanium Hydride TiH x with Increase in Hydrogen Concentration

Structural phase transformations of the hcp bcc fct fcc fct ( ) type in titanium hydrides TiH _x experimentally found to occur with increase in the hydrogen concentration x are studied theoretically. Free energy phases are statistically calculated, and their concentration dependence is determined. Phase transformation temperatures are found from intersection points of free energy curves and from points of common tangents to the curves. The energy parameters of the system are estimated. The calculation results are compared with the experimental data.     

Leptonic decays of vector mesons and a possible μ+μ− resonance

The possible existence of a vector leptonic resonance (⁰) in the ^+– system is considered. We discuss the effect such a resonance would have on the g factor of the muon and also on the ratio of the partial widths of the muonic and electronic decay modes (R_V = (V ^+–)/G (V e⁺ e^–)) of the neutral vector mesons ⁰,,,, and. From the experimental values of R and R, the following values are obtained for the mass, coupling constant, and partial decay widths of the resonance: M = 872 ± 60 MeV, f²/4 = 4 ± 2) ·10^–4, ( ^{0 + –}) = 0.12±0.06 MeV, and (^{0 0 +–}) = 0.13±0.06 MeV.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 39–43, May, 1977.     

Dynamics of vector spin glasses: The Gabay-Toulouse line

The dynamics of ann-component vector spin glass with infinite range interactions are investigated near and above the Gabay-Toulouse (GT) line. The local transverse susceptibility _T for 0 varies along the whole GT lineT _c1 (H) as ^v , with a field and temperature independent critical exponentv=1/2. The longitudinal susceptibility _L () remains analytic for all (T, H)T _c1 (H), except for a cross-over fromv=1 tov=1/2 forH0 at the freezing temperatureT=T _f . The dynamic susceptibilities _T () and _L () are already coupled above the GT line via self-energy terms. BelowT _c1 (H), this coupling is strongly enhanced by other mechanisms.     

Absence of asymptotic-time symmetry breaking in zero-bias spin-boson model with partial relaxation

The symmetric spin-boson model without external field is treated for any type of coupling to the boson bath and any initial bath density matrix. With initially fully aligned spin (_z (0)= =1), the proof is given that a partial relaxation (_z (+) t1<) implies that there is no asymptotic-time (up-and-down) symmetry breaking (i.e. that _z (+)=0). For the problem of a particle (interacting with free bosons) in a symmetric double well without spatial symmetry breaking before the infinite time limit, this means that att + the particle distribution becomes symmetric (irrespective of the full initial asymmetry) unless the particle fully remains (att + ) in Ihe starting well.     

Boundedness for large |x| of suitable weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations with prescribed velocity at infinity

We consider time-dependent perturbationsu of R. Finn's stationary PR-solution of the Navier-Stokes equations, which converges to a constant vectorv as |x|. For a given time interval [,T], we find a radiusK such thatu is essentially bounded on [,T]×{|x|K}.     

Produits tensoriels continus d'espaces et d'algèbres de Banach

The notion of tensor product of a family (A _i ) _i I of Banach algebras is generalized to the case whenI is a topological space; in this case A _i is generated by some elements x _i , the family (x _i ) being subjected to certain conditions: for instance the functioni x _i must be continuous. This notion is applied to Quantum Field Theory in the following sense: certain algebras of observables can be considered as continuous tensor products of simpler ones, namely of algebras of observables with one degree of freedom.