Meson Effects on the Chiral Condensate at Finite Density

Meson corrections on the chiral condensate up to next-to-leading order in a 1/Nc expansion at finite densityare investigated in the NJL model with explicit chiral symmetry breaking. Compared with mean-field results, the chiralphase transition is still of the first order while the properties near the critical density for chiral phase transition are foundto change significantly.     

Effects of Composite Pions on the Chiral Condensate within the PNJL Model at Finite Temperature

We investigate the effect of composite pions on the behaviour of the chiral condensate at finite temperature within the Polyakov-loop improved NJL model. To this end we treat quark-antiquark correlations in the pion channel (bound states and scattering continuum) within a Beth–Uhlenbeck approach that uses medium-dependent phase shifts. A striking medium effect is the Mott transition which occurs when the binding energy vanishes and the discrete pion bound state merges the continuum. This transition is triggered by the lowering of the continuum edge due to the chiral restoration transition. This in turn also entails a modification of the Polyakov-loop so that the SU(3) center symmetry gets broken at finite temperature and dynamical quarks (and gluons) appear in the system, taking over the role of the dominant degrees of freedom from the pions. At low temperatures our model reproduces the chiral perturbation theory result for the chiral condensate while at high temperatures the PNJL model result is recovered. The new aspect of the current work is a consistent treatment of the chiral restoration transition region within the Beth–Uhlenbeck approach on the basis of mesonic phase shifts for the treatment of the correlations.     

Mixed Quark-Gluon Condensate Beyond Chiral Limit

Using the Dyson-Schwinger equation and perturbation theory, we calculate the mixed quark-gluon condensates in the chiral limit and in the case of nonzero quark current mass for the light quark u/d and strange quark s. The results show that the mixed quark-gluon condensate will decrease when the quark mass increases. For the quark with zero mass, we obtain mo2 = g（qσuvGuvq）/（qq） 0.68 GeV2, which is in good agreement with the QCD sum rules estimate mo2=（0.8± 0.2） GeV2.     

QCD Chiral Restoration at Finite T Under the Magnetic Field

We investigate the chiral restoration at finite temperature (T) under the strong external magnetic field ${{\bf B}=B_{0}\hat{z}}$ of the SU(2) light-flavor QCD matter. We employ the instanton-liquid QCD vacuum configuration accompanied with the linear Schwinger method for inducing the magnetic field. The Harrington–Shepard caloron solution is used to modify the instanton parameters, i.e. the average instanton size ${(\bar{\rho})}$ and inter-instanton distance ${(\bar{R})}$ , as functions of T. In addition, we include the meson-loop corrections as the large-N _c corrections because they are critical for reproducing the universal chiral restoration pattern. We present the numerical results for the constituent-quark mass as well as chiral condensate which signal the spontaneous breakdown of chiral-symmetry (SBχS), as functions of T and B. Besides we find that the changes for the F _π and m _π due to the magnetic field is relatively small, in comparison to those caused by the finite T effect.     

Transfer Matrices and Lattice Fermions at Finite Density

I discuss the connection between the Hamiltonian and path integral approaches for fermionic fields. I show how the temporal Wilson projection operators appear naturally in a lattice action. I also carefully treat the insertion of a chemical potential term.     

Ideal Mixture Approximation of Cluster Size Distributions at Low Density

We consider an interacting particle system in continuous configuration space. The pair interaction has an attractive part. We show that, at low density, the system behaves approximately like an ideal mixture of clusters (droplets): we prove rigorous bounds (a) for the constrained free energy associated with a given cluster size distribution, considered as an order parameter, (b) for the free energy, obtained by minimising over the order parameter, and (c) for the minimising cluster size distributions. It is known that, under suitable assumptions, the ideal mixture has a transition from a gas phase to a condensed phase as the density is varied; our bounds hold both in the gas phase and in the coexistence region of the ideal mixture. The present paper improves our earlier results by taking into account the mixing entropy.     

Finite Size Corrections to the Large Deviation Function of the Density in the One Dimensional Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process

The symmetric simple exclusion process is one of the simplest out-of-equilibrium systems for which the steady state is known. Its large deviation functional of the density has been computed in the past both by microscopic and macroscopic approaches. Here we obtain the leading finite size correction to this large deviation functional. The result is compared to the similar corrections for equilibrium systems.     

Gravitational Casimir Effect at Finite Temperature

The energy-momentum tensor for the gravitoelectromagnetism-(GEM) theory in the real-time finite temperature field theory formalism is presented. Expressions for the Casimir energy and pressure at zero and finite temperature are obtained. An analysis of the Casimir effect for the GEM field is developed.     

Automated Traffic and the Finite Size Resonance

We investigate in detail what one might call the canonical (automated) traffic problem: A long string of N+1 cars (numbered from 0 to N) moves along a one-lane road “in formation” at a constant velocity and with a unit distance between successive cars. Each car monitors the relative velocity and position of only its neighboring cars. This information is then fed back to its own engine which decelerates (brakes) or accelerates according to the information it receives. The question is: What happens when due to an external influence—a traffic light turning green—the ‘zero’th’ car (the “leader”) accelerates?As a first approximation, we analyze linear(ized) equations and show that in this scenario the traffic flow has a tendency to be stop-and-go. We give approximate solutions for the global traffic as function of all the relevant parameters (the feed back parameters as well as cruise velocity and so on). We discuss general design principles for these algorithms, that is: how does the choice of parameters influence the performance.     

Finite Size Effect for the First-Order Phase Transition of the Three-Dimensional Blume-Capel Model on a Cellular Automaton

The first-order phase transition of the three-dimensional Blume-Capel model is investigated using the cooling algorithm which is improved from Creutz Cellular Automaton at D/J = 2.9, i.e. a ratio of single-ion anisotropy constant to bilinear interaction energy. We test the efficiency of the algorithm and obtain the finite-size effects at the first-order phase transition point. The transition temperature is estimated using the probability distributions of the order parameter and the energy. The analysis of data at the transition point indicates that the magnetic susceptibility and the specific heat maxima increase with the system value （L^d）.     

Chiral Torsional Effect

JETP Letters - We propose the new nondissipative transport effect—the appearance of axial current of thermal quasiparticles in the presence of background gravity with torsion. For the...     

Linking the Dynamical Casimir Effect to the Collective Excitation Effect at Finite Temperature

Thermal effects on the dynamical Casimir effect and the collective excitation effect are investigated in a resonantly vibrating cavity filled with an ensemble of two-level atoms. The results show that the moving mirror of the cavity results in the dynamical Casimir effect and the collective excitation effect of the two-level atoms,and the finite temperature enhances the number of created photons and created excitons by several orders of magnitude. The relevance experiments of the finite-temperature effects for the dynamical Casimir effect and the collective excitation effect are addressed.     

小尺寸金属钨团簇的密度泛函研究

在相对论原子实势(RECP)近似下,采用密度泛函理论B3LYP方法对Wn(n=2~7)团簇进行优化,得出稳定的平衡几何结构。并计算了垂直电离能,最高占据轨道(HOMO)与最低非占据轨道(LOMO)之间的能隙。得出小尺寸金属钨团簇失去电子的能力随原子个数的增加而增大,W3的稳定性最好的结论。     

驱动场作用下二分量BEC中原子数密度的演化

运用数值模拟研究了二分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)原子数密度的动力学行为,讨论了驱动场耦合强度、不同分量间原子作用强度、射频场频率及同分量内原子作用强度对二分量原子数密度演化特性的影响.结果显示:原子数密度随时间近似作周期性振荡,其振荡的周期随驱动耦合场强度、不同分量原子间作用强度的增大而减小,随自耦合强度的增大而增大;射频场频率的变化并不显著改变原子数密度振荡的周期,但它的增大会和自耦合强度的增大一样导致原子密度振荡的振幅减小.     

Finite Size Corrections for the Ising Model on Higher Genus Triangular Lattices

We study the topology dependence of the finite size corrections to the Ising model partition function by considering the model on a triangular lattice embedded on a genus two surface. At criticality we observe a universal shape dependent correction, expressible in terms of Riemann theta functions, that reproduces the modular invariant partition function of the corresponding conformal field theory. The period matrix characterizing the moduli parameters of the limiting Riemann surface is obtained by a numerical study of the lattice continuum limit. The same results are reproduced using a discrete holomorphic structure.     

Influence of Using Additional Information on the Accuracy of Estimation of the Reliability Function Characteristics at a Finite Size of Observations

Russian Physics Journal - The influence of using additional information on the mean square errors of modified nonparametric estimators of the reliability function characteristics of a...     

Finite Size Effects in the Free Energy Density for Abelian (Anti-)Self-Dual Gluon Field in SU(3) Gluodynamics

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters - Finite-size effects in the free energy density for Abelian (anti-)self-dual gluon field are investigated within $$SU(3)$$ gluodynamics. In particular, the...     

Finite Size Effect in Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations of ^4He Systems

Path integral Monte Carlo （PIMC） simulations are a powerful computational method to study interacting quantum systems at finite temperatures. In this work, PIMC has been applied to study the finite size effect of the simulated systems of ^4He. We determine the energy as a function of temperature at saturated-vapor-pressure （SVP） conditions in the temperature range of T ∈ [1.0 K,4.0 K], and the equation of state （EOS） in the grmmd state For systems consisted of 32, 64 and 128 ^4He atoms, respectively, We find that the energy at SVP is influenced significantly by the size of the simulated system in the temperature range of T ∈ [2.1 K, 3.0 K] and the larger the system is, the better results are obtained in comparison with the experimental values; while the EOS appeared to be unrelated to it.