Casimir Energy for Spherical Shell in Schwarzschild Black Hole Background

In this paper, we consider the Casimir energy of massless scalar fields which satisfy the Dirichlet boundary condition on a spherical shell. Outside the shell, the spacetime is assumed to be described by the Schwarzschild metric, while inside the shell it is taken to be the flat Minkowski space. Using zeta function regularization and heat kernel coefficients we isolate the divergent contributions of the Casimir energy inside and outside the shell, then using the renormalization procedure of the bag model the divergent parts are cancelled, finally obtaining a renormalized expression for the total Casimir energy.     

Interacting fermions on a random lattice

We extend previous work on the properties of the Dirac lagrangian on two-dimensional random lattices to the case where interaction terms are included. Although for free fermions the chiral symmetry of the doubles is spontaneously broken by their interaction with the lattice and they decouple from long-distance physics, our results in this paper show that all is undone by quantum corrections in an interacting field theory and that the end result is very similar to what is found with Wilson fermions. Two field-theoretical models with interacting fermions are studied by perturbation expansion in the field theory coupling constant. These are a model with one fermion and one boson species interacting via a scalar Yukawa coupling and the massive Thirring model. It is shown that on the random lattice ultraviolet finite diagrams and finite parts of ultraviolet divergent diagrams have the correct continuum limit. Ultraviolet divergent parts can be removed by the same renormalisation procedure as in the continuum, but do not exhibit the same dependence on the lagrangian mass. In the case of the massive Thirring model this causes a fermion mass correction of order the cut-off scale, which breaks the chiral symmetry of the remaining light fermion; there is consequently a fine-tuning problem. In the context of the same model we discuss the effect of the Goldstone boson associated with the spontaneous breakdown of the chiral symmetry of the doubles on two-dimensional models with vector couplings.     

Renormalized entropies in a de Sitter spacetime

The quantum entropies due to the scalar and Dirac fields are investigated in a pure de Sitter spacetime. The leading divergent terms in both cases are regularized by the Pauli-Villars scheme. It is shown that the explosive entropies can be renormalized according to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula.     

Finite renormalizations of 0Sp(N, 4) supersymmetry

The calculation of the one-loop effective potential of the Wess-Zumino model is carried out using Green functions which propagate fields inn-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The divergent parts of the amplitudes are independent of the choice of boundary conditions. The finite counterterms can be adjusted in such a way that the renormalized action be supersymmetric invariant. Addressing the question of the survival of the supersymmetry invariance of the vacuum state, we derive the result of the persistence of supersymmetry in the semiclassical approximation.     

The Markov property method applied to Ising model calculations

An efficient method of computation for models possessing the Markov property is set out. We apply this method to the two-dimensional ising model and report exact computations for up to 10 by 10 models with periodic boundary conditions. We find that critical-point, finite-size rounding is quite large in the renormalized coupling constant, which is not divergent at the critical point, in contrast to the energy, which is also not divergent and has no rounding there. The difference is traced to the continuity of the energy and the discontinuity of the renormalized coupling constant at the critical point.     

Renormalization in the theory of a quantized scalar field interacting with a robertson-walker spacetime

We demonstrate the possibility of removing the divergences in the energy-momentum tensor by identifying divergent terms with renormalizations of the coupling constants in the gravitational field equation, modified to include a cosmological term and terms quadratic in the curvature. The model studied is that of a classical Robertson-Walker metric and a quantized minimally coupled neutral scalar field. The theory is constructed first with an ultraviolet cutoff as a phenomenological ansatz. The cutoff is then removed in an attempt to obtain a more fundamental theory, whereupon the question arises of the covariance and uniqueness of the resulting renormalized energy-momentum tensor. In the case of a massless field in a spatially flat universe, an apparent infrared divergence is discussed from the point of view of operational determination of the renormalized coupling constants. In the other cases, although the divergences are successfully accounted for by renormalization, we are left with finite leading terms which do not appear to be identifiable with geometrical tensors; the significance of this result is under investigation. If these anomalous terms are dropped, the renormalized energy-momentum tensor agrees with that defined by adiabatic regularization, provided that the limit of slow time variation taken in that method is generalized to a limit of “spacetime flatness.”     

Precise quark-mass dependence of the instanton determinant

The fermion determinant in an instanton background for a quark field of arbitrary mass is determined exactly using an efficient numerical method to evaluate the determinant of a partial-wave radial differential operator. The bare sum over partial waves is divergent but can be renormalized in the minimal subtraction scheme using the result of WKB analysis of the large partial-wave contribution. Previously, only a few leading terms in the extreme small and large mass limits were known for the corresponding effective action. Our approach works for any quark-mass and interpolates smoothly between the analytically known small and large mass expansions.     

基于有限元法的光子并矢格林函数重整化及其在自发辐射率和能级移动研究中的应用

任意微纳结构中量子点的自发辐射率和能级移动均可用并矢格林函数表达.当源点和场点在同一位置时,格林函数的实部是发散的.为解决这一发散问题,可采用重整化格林函数方法.本文提出一种计算重整化格林函数和散射格林函数的方法.该方法利用有限元,计算点电偶极子的辐射场,将其在量子点体积内做平均得到重整化的并矢格林函数,减去均匀空间中解析的重整化格林函数,得到重整化的散射格林函数.在均匀空间情况下,本方法所得数值结果与解析解一致.将该方法应用到银纳米球系统,以解析的散射格林函数作为参考,结果表明该方法能准确处理散射格林函数的重整化问题.将该方法应用到表面等离激元纳米腔中,发现有极大的自发辐射增强和能级移动,且该结果不依赖于量子点的体积.这些研究在光与物质相互作用领域具有积极的意义.     

Vacuum polarization near a black hole creating particles

The renormalized expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor associated with scalar massless particles created by a Schwarzschild black hole is calculated by performing a numerical computation.     

Further comments on the modified operator method

It is shown that a recently proposed perturbation approach to the two-step coherent-state approximation for one-dimensional oscillators leads to series which are asymptotically divergent, and coincident with the ones derived from the operator method. A simple method is provided to transform such a series into a convergent renormalized one making use of an order-dependent mapping. Results are excellent for all eigenvalues and all coupling constants.     

Convergence of energy scales on the approach to a local quantum critical point

We find the emergence of strong correlations and universality on the approach to the quantum critical points of a two-impurity Anderson model. The two impurities are coupled by an interimpurity exchange interaction J and direct interaction U{12} and are hybridized with separate conduction channels. The low energy behavior is described in terms of renormalized parameters. We show that on the approach to the transitions to a local singlet and a local charged ordered state, the quasiparticle weight factor z→0, and the renormalized parameters can be expressed in terms of a single energy scale T{*}. The values of the renormalized interaction parameters in terms of T{*} can be predicted from the condition of continuity of the spin and charge susceptibilities, and correspond to strong correlation. These predictions are confirmed by the numerical renormalization group calculations, including the case when the on site interaction U=0.     

Cancellation of the chiral anomaly in a model with spontaneous symmetry breaking

A perturbatively renormalized Abelian Higgs-Kibble model with a chirally coupled fermion is considered. The Slavnov identity is fulfilled to all orders of perturbation theory, which is crucial for renormalizability in models with vector bosons. BRS invariance, i.e. the validity of the identity, forces the chiral anomaly to be cancelled by Wess-Zumino counterterms. This procedure preserves the renormalizability in the one-loop approximation but it violates the Froissart bounds for partial wave amplitudes above some energy and destroys renormalizability from the second order in? onwards due to the counterterms.     

Electromagnetic-Wave Diffraction by a Grating with a Chiral Layer

We consider the vector problem of diffraction of an obliquely incident, elliptically polarized wave by a one-dimensional periodic grating located in a layered medium with a chiral layer. The use of analytical regularization based on the Riemann-Hilbert problem allows us to obtain a rigorous and efficient method for solving such diffraction problems. The performed numerical study reveals certain features of diffraction in the presence of a chiral medium.     

Stochastic regularization of QED

Stochastic quantization and stochastic regularization of QED are studied. The need to use gauge and chiral covariant Langevin equations is discussed. They allow the cancellation of all naive quadratic divergences of the photon vacuum polarization at the one-loop level. The leading logarithmically divergent contribution is then transverse, and the masslessness of the photon is easily checked. Furthermore, within stochastic regularization, a simple method for obtaining the chiral anomaly in a massive theory at large fictitious time is developed.     

Stability of thermal equilibrium for a radiating black hole in a box

The Hawking criterion for the stability of thermodynamical equilibrium between a Schwarzschild black hole and its own radiation is refined by the use of Page's expression for the renormalized stress-energy tensor.     

Goldberger-treiman relation in the renormalized sigma model

The regularization and renormalization of the full sigma model is worked out explicitly in the tree and one-loop approximation. Various renormalized quantities relevant for chiral symmetry breaking are listed. The numerically calculated Goldberger-Treiman relation is also compared with experiment.     

Weinbergʼs approach to nucleon–nucleon scattering revisited

We propose a new, renormalizable approach to nucleon–nucleon scattering in chiral effective field theory based on the manifestly Lorentz invariant form of the effective Lagrangian without employing the non-relativistic expansion. For the pion-less case and for the formulation based on perturbative pions, the new approach reproduces the known results obtained by Kaplan, Savage and Wise. Contrary to the standard formulation utilizing the non-relativistic expansion, the non-perturbatively resummed one-pion exchange potential can be renormalized by absorbing all ultraviolet divergences into the leading S-wave contact interactions. We explain in detail the differences to the non-relativistic formulation and present numerical results for two-nucleon phase shifts at leading order in the low-momentum expansion.     

The Hierarchy Principle and the Large Mass Limit of the Linear Sigma Model

In perturbation theory we study the matching in four dimensions between the linear sigma model in the large mass limit and the renormalized nonlinear sigma model in the recently proposed flat connection formalism. We consider both the chiral limit and the strong coupling limit of the linear sigma model. Our formalism extends to Green functions with an arbitrary number of pion legs, at one loop level, on the basis of the hierarchy as an efficient unifying principle that governs both limits. While the chiral limit is straightforward, the matching in the strong coupling limit requires careful use of the normalization conditions of the linear theory, in order to exploit the functional equation and the complete set of local solutions of its linearized form.     

From N = 1 to N = 4 extended supersymmetric Yang-Mills fields in a covariant Wess-Zumino gauge

It is assumed that N = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills fields coupled to chiral matter fields can be renormalized in a covariant Wess-Zumino gauge with a minimal number of subtractions so that the Ward identities of supersymmetry, ordinary gauge invariance and matter-field-flavour symmetries are satisfied. The chiral Yukawa couplings are supposed to remain unrenormalized. I show that on the basis of these assumptions an N = 4 extended manifestly O(4) invariant theory can be constructed with finite Yukawa and φ⁴ couplings. A consequence of these non-renormalizations is the vanishing of the renormalization group β function.