Individual complex Dirac eigenvalue distributions from random matrix theory and comparison to quenched lattice QCD with a quark chemical potential

We analyze how individual eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac operator at nonzero quark chemical potential are distributed in the complex plane. Exact and approximate analytical results for both quenched and unquenched distributions are derived from non-Hermitian random matrix theory. When comparing these to quenched lattice QCD spectra close to the origin, excellent agreement is found for zero and nonzero topology at several values of the quark chemical potential. Our analytical results are also applicable to other physical systems in the same symmetry class.     

Microscopic correlation functions for the QCD Dirac operator with chemical potential

A chiral random matrix model with complex eigenvalues is solved as an effective model for QCD with nonvanishing chemical potential. The new correlation functions derived from it are conjectured to predict the local fluctuations of complex Dirac operator eigenvalues at zero virtuality. The parameter measuring the non-Hermiticity of the random matrix is related to the chemical potential. In the phase with broken chiral symmetry all spectral correlations are calculated for finite matrix size N and in the large-N limit at weak and strong non-Hermiticity. The derivation uses the orthogonality of the Laguerre polynomials in the complex plane.     

Testing the self-duality of topological lumps in SU(3) lattice gauge theory

We discuss a simple formula which connects the field-strength tensor to a spectral sum over certain quadratic forms of the eigenvectors of the lattice Dirac operator. We analyze these terms for the near zero modes and find that they give rise to contributions which are essentially either self-dual or anti-self-dual. Modes with larger eigenvalues in the bulk of the spectrum are more dominated by quantum fluctuations and are less (anti-)self-dual. In the high temperature phase of QCD we find considerably reduced (anti-)self-duality for the modes near the edge of the spectral gap.     

QCD dirac operator at nonzero chemical potential: lattice data and matrix model

Recently, a non-Hermitian chiral random matrix model was proposed to describe the eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac operator at nonzero chemical potential. This matrix model can be constructed from QCD by mapping it to an equivalent matrix model which has the same symmetries as QCD with chemical potential. Its microscopic spectral correlations are conjectured to be identical to those of the QCD Dirac operator. We investigate this conjecture by comparing large ensembles of Dirac eigenvalues in quenched SU(3) lattice QCD at a nonzero chemical potential to the analytical predictions of the matrix model. Excellent agreement is found in the two regimes of weak and strong non-Hermiticity, for several different lattice volumes.     

Spectral Asymptotics of Pauli Operators and Orthogonal Polynomials in Complex Domains

We consider the spectrum of a two-dimensional Pauli operator with a compactly supported electric potential and a variable magnetic field with a positive mean value. The rate of accumulation of eigenvalues to zero is described in terms of the logarithmic capacity of the support of the electric potential. A connection between these eigenvalues and orthogonal polynomials in complex domains is established. On leave of absence from King's College London, U.K.     

Dynamical instability induced by the zero mode under symmetry breaking external perturbation

A complex eigenvalue in the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations for a stationary Bose–Einstein condensate in the ultracold atomic system indicates the dynamical instability of the system. We also have the modes with zero eigenvalues for the condensate, called the zero modes, which originate from the spontaneous breakdown of symmetries. Although the zero modes are suppressed in many theoretical analyses, we take account of them in this paper and argue that a zero mode can change into one with a pure imaginary eigenvalue by applying a symmetry breaking external perturbation potential. This emergence of a pure imaginary mode adds a new type of scenario of dynamical instability to that characterized by the complex eigenvalue of the usual excitation modes. For illustration, we deal with two one-dimensional homogeneous Bose–Einstein condensate systems with a single dark soliton under a respective perturbation potential, breaking the invariance under translation, to derive pure imaginary modes.     

More about chiral symmetry restoration at finite temperature in the planar limit

In the planar limit, in the deconfined phase, the Euclidean Dirac operator has a spectral gap around zero. We show that functions of eigenvalues close to the spectral edge, which are independent of common rescalings and shifts gauge configuration by gauge configuration, have distributions described by a Gaussian Hermitian matrix model. However, combinations of eigenvalues that are scale and shift invariant only on the average, do not match this matrix model.     

Unquenched complex dirac spectra at nonzero chemical potential: two-color QCD lattice data versus matrix model

We compare analytic predictions of non-Hermitian chiral random matrix theory with the complex Dirac operator eigenvalue spectrum of two-color lattice gauge theory with dynamical fermions at nonzero chemical potential. The Dirac eigenvalues come in complex conjugate pairs, making the action of this theory real and positive for our choice of two staggered flavors. This enables us to use standard Monte Carlo simulations in testing the influence of the chemical potential and quark mass on complex eigenvalues close to the origin. We find excellent agreement between the analytic predictions and our data for two different volumes over a range of chemical potentials below the chiral phase transition. In particular, we detect the effect of unquenching when going to very small quark masses.     

Internal modes of discrete solitons near the anti-continuum limit of the dNLS equation

Discrete solitons of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger (dNLS) equation are compactly supported in the anti-continuum limit of the zero coupling between lattice sites. Eigenvalues of the linearization of the dNLS equation at the discrete soliton determine its spectral stability. Small eigenvalues bifurcating from the zero eigenvalue near the anti-continuum limit were characterized earlier for this model. Here we analyze the resolvent operator and prove that it is bounded in the neighborhood of the continuous spectrum if the discrete soliton is simply connected in the anti-continuum limit. This result rules out the existence of internal modes (neutrally stable eigenvalues of the discrete spectrum) near the anti-continuum limit.     

Periodic Driving Induced Anomalous End Modes in a Superconducting Wire with the Second-Neighbor Pairing Potential

The anomalous end modes are generated in a one-dimensional p-wave superconducting wire with second-neighbor couplings and a periodic driving in pairing potential. We show that the driving on the amplitude or the phase of the first-neighbor and second-neighbor pairing potential can both generate conventional end modes and anomalous end modes, with corresponding Floquet eigenvalues equal to ± 1 or appear in complex conjugate pairs. We have numerically studied the driving of the first-neighbor and second-neighbor pairing potential, and also analyzed the end modes, Floquet eigenvalues and the Fourier transform of these end modes.

     

Special modes induced by inter-chain coupling in a non-Hermitian ladder system

We explore some interesting phenomena in a simple non-Hermitian ladder system. Special modes with energy eigenvalues closely related to the inter-chain-coupling strength appear in the non-Hermitian ladder system. We show that a phase transition occurs whereby special modes with pure real eigenvalues can switch to special modes with pure imaginary eigenvalues, when the inter-chain-coupling strength changes from symmetric to asymmetric. We find that the density profiles of all the special modes are completely identical under certain conditions, even if the inter-chain-coupling strength is added into the non-Hermitian ladder system in different ways. Moreover, we also demonstrate that the different inter-chain couplings are fundamentally equivalent to adding different on-site potential energies into the non-Hermitian ladder system.     

Supersymmetry and instantons

We show that the eigenvalue equations for the fluctuation of scalars, fermions and gluon around any classical self-dual solution of the Yang-Mills theory have the same spectrum of non-zero eigenvalues. In the case of a supersymmetric Yang- Mills theory this implies that the one loop correction around any self-dual instanton is just given by a counting of the zero modes of the gluon, fermion and ghost.     

Steady state and relaxation spectrum of the Oslo rice-pile model

We show that the one-dimensional Oslo rice-pile model is a special case of the abelian distributed processors model. The exact steady state of the model is determined. We show that the time evolution operator for the system satisfies the equation where n=L(L+1)/2 for a pile with L sites. This implies that has only one eigenvalue 1 corresponding to the steady state, and all other eigenvalues are exactly zero. Also, all connected time-dependent correlation functions in the steady state of the pile are exactly zero for time difference greater than n. Generalization to other abelian critical height models where the critical thresholds are randomly reset after each toppling is briefly discussed.     

Tensor diffusion level set method for infrared targets contours extraction

A tensor diffusion level set method is presented to extract infrared (IR) targets contour under a sky-mountain-water complex background. The proposed model combines tensor diffusion operator and the eigenvalues of tensor-image into a common energy minimization level set framework. By incorporating the information of image tensor diffusion operator into the external energy term, the level set function can move in a specific way. And eigenvalues of tensor-image are used for the regularization of zero level curves in order to diminish the influence of image ‘clutter’ and noise. An additional benefit of the proposed method is robust to initial conditions. Experimental results show very good performance of the tensor diffusion level set method for IR targets contours extraction.     

Bulk viscosity of low-temperature strongly interacting matter

We study the bulk viscosity of a pion gas in unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory at low and moderate temperatures, below any phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma phase.We argue that inelastic processes are irrelevant and exponentially suppressed at low temperatures. Since the system falls out of chemical equilibrium upon expansion, a pion chemical potential must be introduced, so we extend the existing theories that include it. We control the zero modes of the collision operator and Landau?s conditions of fit when solving the Boltzmann equation with the elastic collision kernel.The dependence of the bulk viscosity with temperature is reminiscent of the findings of Fernández-Fraile and Gómez Nicola (2009) [1], while the numerical value is closer to that of Davesne (1996) [2]. In the zero-temperature limit we correctly recover the vanishing viscosity associated to a non-relativistic monoatomic gas.     

Raman Theory for a Molecule in a Vibrating Microcavity Oscillating in Fundamental Resonance

We propose a model to describe the energy structure and dynamics of a system of a molecule interacting with infinite photon modes in a vibrating microcavity whose boundary oscillates in the fundamental resonance.By constructing an so(2,1) Lie algebra for the infinite photon modes,we obtain analytical expressions of the energy eigenstates,energy eigenvalues and the system‘s evolution operator for this Raman model under certain conditions.     

Eigenvalue density of the non-Hermitian Wilson Dirac operator

We find the lattice spacing dependence of the eigenvalue density of the non-Hermitian Wilson Dirac operator in the ? domain. The starting point is the joint probability density of the corresponding random matrix theory. In addition to the density of the complex eigenvalues we also obtain the density of the real eigenvalues separately for positive and negative chiralities as well as an explicit analytical expression for the number of additional real modes.     

Linking confinement to spectral properties of the dirac operator

We represent Polyakov loops and their correlators as spectral sums of eigenvalues and eigenmodes of the lattice Dirac operator. The deconfinement transition of pure gauge theory is characterized as a change in the response of moments of eigenvalues to varying the boundary conditions of the Dirac operator. We argue that the potential between static quarks is linked to spatial correlations of Dirac eigenvectors.     

Chiral symmetry breaking and the dirac spectrum at nonzero chemical potential

The relation between the spectral density of the QCD Dirac operator at nonzero baryon chemical potential and the chiral condensate is investigated. We use the analytical result for the eigenvalue density in the microscopic regime which shows oscillations with a period that scales as 1/V and an amplitude that diverges exponentially with the volume V = L4. We find that the discontinuity of the chiral condensate is due to the whole oscillating region rather than to an accumulation of eigenvalues at the origin. These results also extend beyond the microscopic regime to chemical potentials mu approximately 1/L.     

Functional integrals for QCD at nonzero chemical potential and zero density

In a Euclidean space functional integral treatment of the free energy of QCD, a chemical potential enters only through the functional determinant of the Dirac operator which for any flavor is /D+m-mu(f)gamma(0) (where mu(f) is the chemical potential for the given flavor). Any nonzero mu alters all of the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator relative to the mu=0 value, leading to a naive expectation that the determinant is altered and which thereby alters the free energy. Phenomenologically, this does not occur at T=0 for sufficiently small mu, in contradiction to this naive expectation. The problem of how to understand this phenomenological behavior in terms of functional integrals is solved for the case of an isospin chemical through the study of the spectrum of the operator gamma(0)(/D+m). The case of the baryon chemical potential is briefly discussed.