Many-body work distributions

The work distribution function for a non-relativistic, non-interacting quantum many-body system interacting with classical external sources is investigated. Exact expressions for the characteristic function corresponding to the work distribution function is obtained for arbitrary switching function and coupling functions. The many-body frequencies are assumed to be generally time-dependent in order to take into account the possibility of moving the boundaries of the system in a predefined process linking the characteristic function to the fluctuation-induced energies in confined geometries. Some limiting cases are considered and discussed.     

The Pearcey Process

The extended Airy kernel describes the space-time correlation functions for the Airy process, which is the limiting process for a polynuclear growth model. The Airy functions themselves are given by integrals in which the exponents have a cubic singularity, arising from the coalescence of two saddle points in an asymptotic analysis. Pearcey functions are given by integrals in which the exponents have a quartic singularity, arising from the coalescence of three saddle points. A corresponding Pearcey kernel appears in a random matrix model and a Brownian motion model for a fixed time. This paper derives an extended Pearcey kernel by scaling the Brownian motion model at several times, and a system of partial differential equations whose solution determines associated distribution functions. We expect there to be a limiting nonstationary process consisting of infinitely many paths, which we call the Pearcey process, whose space-time correlation functions are expressible in terms of this extended kernel.     

The Dynamics of Power laws: Fitness and Aging in Preferential Attachment Trees

Continuous-time branching processes describe the evolution of a population whose individuals generate a random number of children according to a birth process. Such branching processes can be used to understand preferential attachment models in which the birth rates are linear functions. We are motivated by citation networks, where power-law citation counts are observed as well as aging in the citation patterns. To model this, we introduce fitness and age-dependence in these birth processes. The multiplicative fitness moderates the rate at which children are born, while the aging is integrable, so that individuals receives a finite number of children in their lifetime. We show the existence of a limiting degree distribution for such processes. In the preferential attachment case, where fitness and aging are absent, this limiting degree distribution is known to have power-law tails. We show that the limiting degree distribution has exponential tails for bounded fitnesses in the presence of integrable aging, while the power-law tail is restored when integrable aging is combined with fitness with unbounded support with at most exponential tails. In the absence of integrable aging, such processes are explosive.     

Langevin Picture of Lévy Walks and Their Extensions

In this paper we derive Langevin picture of Lévy walks. Applying recent advances in the theory of coupled continuous time random walks we find a limiting process of the properly scaled Lévy walk. Next, we introduce extensions of Levy walks, in which jump sizes are some functions of waiting times. We prove that under proper scaling conditions, such generalized Lévy walks converge in distribution to the appropriate limiting processes. We also derive the corresponding fractional diffusion equations and investigate behavior of the mean square displacements of the limiting processes, showing that different coupling functions lead to various types of anomalous diffusion.     

Fluctuations in the Bose Gas with Attractive Boundary Conditions

In this paper limiting distribution functions of field and density fluctuations are explicitly and rigorously computed for the different phases of the Bose gas. Several Gaussian and non-Gaussian distribution functions are obtained and the dependence on boundary conditions is explicitly derived. The model under consideration is the free Bose gas subjected to attractive boundary conditions, such boundary conditions yield a gap in the spectrum. The presence of a spectral gap and the method of the coupled thermodynamic limits are the new aspects of this work, leading to new scaling exponents and new fluctuation distribution functions.     

声辐射模态和球谐波函数在球源声场重建中的比较

声辐射模态和球谐波函数在球源声场重建中均有应用,两者具有很多相似性,都具有相同的多极子辐射模式和"群组"分布特性。有观点认为球形声源的声辐射模态向量即为球谐波函数,但两者的内在关系一直缺乏有效的证明。为分析两种基函数的相似性及在球源声场重建领域的差异,在理论上建立了两者的内在联系,在应用上比较研究了基于两种基函数的声场重建方法的有效性和可靠性。数值算例结果表明,在中高频段时基于两种函数的声场重建效果相当,但在低频段尤其是存在干扰源的非自由场条件下的声场重建应用中,基于声辐射模态的声场重建方法能得到更高的重建精度。可见,声辐射模态具有较为明显的声场重建优越性,这为利用声辐射模态和球谐波函数进行球源声场重建提供了理论参考。      

Nodal domains statistics: a criterion for quantum chaos

We consider the distribution of the (properly normalized) numbers of nodal domains of wave functions in 2D quantum billiards. We show that these distributions distinguish clearly between systems with integrable (separable) or chaotic underlying classical dynamics, and for each case the limiting distribution is universal (system independent). Thus, a new criterion for quantum chaos is provided by the statistics of the wave functions, which complements the well-established criterion based on spectral statistics.     

Multi-Class Cost-Constrained Random Coding for Correlated Sources over the Multiple-Access Channel

This paper studies a generalized version of multi-class cost-constrained random-coding ensemble with multiple auxiliary costs for the transmission of N correlated sources over an N-user multiple-access channel. For each user, the set of messages is partitioned into classes and codebooks are generated according to a distribution depending on the class index of the source message and under the constraint that the codewords satisfy a set of cost functions. Proper choices of the cost functions recover different coding schemes including message-dependent and message-independent versions of independent and identically distributed, independent conditionally distributed, constant-composition and conditional constant composition ensembles. The transmissibility region of the scheme is related to the Cover-El Gamal-Salehi region. A related family of correlated-source Gallager source exponent functions is also studied. The achievable exponents are compared for correlated and independent sources, both numerically and analytically.     

Open Quantum Random Walks with Decoherence on Coins with n Degrees of Freedom

In this paper we define a new type of decoherent quantum random walk with parameter 0≤p≤1, which becomes a unitary quantum random walk (UQRW) when p=0 and an open quantum random walk (OQRW) when p=1, respectively. We call this process a partially open quantum random walk (POQRW). We study the limiting distribution of a POQRW on Z ¹ subject to decoherence on coins with n degrees of freedom. The limiting distribution of the POQRW converges to a convex combination of normal distributions, under an eigenvalue condition. A Perron-Frobenius type of theorem is established to determine whether or not a POQRW satisfies the eigenvalue condition. Moreover, we explicitly compute the limiting distributions of characteristic equations of the position probability functions when n=2 and 3.     

Local commutativity for nonlocalisable fields

A definition of local commutativity for nonlocalisable field theory is given by means of a limiting procedure for the Wightman functions of the theory; it includes, as a special case, rational functions of the free field. Fields for which this limiting procedure is defined are shown to satisfy many of the desirable features of localisable fields, including the existence of a TCP operator,the clustet property, the existence of asymptotic limits, and the LSZ reduction formulas. A strengthening of the procedure allows forward scattering dispersion relations to be obtained; the effects of nonlocalisibility on rigorous high energy bounds is also considered.     

Some Statistical Properties of the Burgers Equation with White-Noise Initial Velocity

We revisit the one-dimensional Burgers equation in the inviscid limit for white-noise initial velocity. We derive the probability distributions of velocity and Lagrangian increments, measured on intervals of any length x. This also gives the velocity structure functions. Next, for the case where the initial density is uniform, we obtain the distribution of the density, over any scale x, and we derive the density two-point correlation and power spectrum. Finally, we consider the Lagrangian displacement field and we derive the distribution of increments of the Lagrangian map. We check that this gives back the well-known mass function of shocks. For all distributions we describe the limiting scaling functions that are obtained in the large-scale and small-scale limits. We also discuss how these results generalize to other initial conditions, or to higher dimensions, and make the connection with a heuristic multifractal formalism. We note that the formation of point-like masses generically leads to a universal small-scale scaling for the density distribution, which is known as the “stable-clustering ansatz” in the cosmological context (where the Burgers dynamics is also known as the “adhesion model”).     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">I–V</Emphasis> characteristics and current instability in a high-temperature superconductor with a nonuniform temperature distribution over the cross section

The effect of a nonuniform temperature distribution in the cross section of a high-temperature superconductor on the formation of its I–V characteristic and the conditions for conservation of a stable distribution of the input current are analyzed. The equations permitting us to determine the boundary values of the electric field and current above which current instability can be developed with allowance for the dimensional effect are derived. It is shown that the input current quench determining the maximal permissible value of the input current decreases if thermal inhomogeneity of electrodynamic states is taken into account in theoretical analysis of its stability conditions. It is found that the limiting admissible values of the electric field and current are nonlinear functions of the thermal resistance of the superconductor, its critical parameters, and external heat-exchange conditions. Therefore, intense cooling of the superconductor does not result in an increase in the current corresponding to the emergence of instability in proportion to the increase in its cross-sectional area or critical current density.     

Chapman-Enskog velocity distribution for tracer diffusion

The Chapman-Enskog method is used to obtain an approximate velocity distribution function for tracer diffusion in dilute hard-sphere mixtures. Different ratios of the mass of the tracer to that of the excess component (including the well-known limiting cases of the Lorentz and the Rayleigh models) are considered and the corresponding diffusion coefficients are also evaluated. A comparison with the recent results of Tompson and Loyalka for both the diffusion coefficients and the distribution functions provides a perspective on the usefulness and nature of the approximate method.     

On longitudinal acoustic propagation in convergent and divergent nozzle flows

The longitudinal propagation of sound in quasi-one-dimensional low Mach number nozzle flow is considered in section 1. The solution in the ray approximation (section 2.1) is used to transform the wave equation into a Schrödinger form, which is studied for the family of power-law ducts, including, as a particular case, the conical nozzle. It is shown that the coincidence of flow sources/sinks with sound sources can lead to appearance of essential singularities (section 2.2), which can be removed by using a Riccati transformation (section 2.4). The exact solutions of the acoustic equations for the parabolic (Figure 1) and hyperbolic (Figure 2) nozzles are obtained in terms of Bessel functions (section 2.3), respectively of complex order and argument. The general formulas, together with limiting forms in the compactness, ray and asymptotic approximations (section 3.1), are used to establish properties of the acoustic velocity and pressure (section 3.2), kinetic and compression energies, and energy flux and wave action (section 3.3); for example, it is shown that the equipartition of energies for moderate variations in cross-section, gives way (Table 2) to a predominance of kinetic/compression energies respectively near blockages/openings. The effects of non-uniform mean flow (Table 1) are discussed by comparing horns with nozzles (section 3.4): e.g., it is shown that the duality principle, in three alternative forms, does not extend from horn to nozzles, and the acoustic equations have no elementary solutions for the latter, in contrast with the former.     

Numerical results for the thermal scattering functions

A recent formulation in radiative transfer defined the thermal scattering functions that characterize radiative transfer from a general, plane-parallel, finite medium driven solely by an internal distribution of thermal sources. Exiting diffuse intensities are expressed as space convolutions of the thermal scattering functions with any thermal source distribution. A parametric study is presented to obtain the basic structure of these scattering functions. The independent variables of these azimuthally independent functions are the direction consine μ and source location t, while the parameters are the single scattering albedo ω, total optical depth t₀, and the asymmetry factor g in the Henyey-Greenstein phase function. The basic functional trends are discussed using various parametric plots, and selected tabular results are given to allow numerical checks. The computational method is invariant imbedding. As a particular application, these functions are used in the following companion paper to obtain exiting intensities from inhomogeneous and nonisothermal media.     

Orientational correlation and velocity distributions in uniform shear flow of a dilute granular gas

Using particle simulations of the uniform shear flow of a rough dilute granular gas, we show that the translational and rotational velocities are strongly correlated in direction, but there is no orientational correlation-induced singularity at perfectly smooth (beta=-1) and rough (beta=1) limits for elastic collisions (e=1); both the translational and rotational velocity distribution functions remain close to a Gaussian for these two limiting cases. Away from these two limits, the orientational as well as spatial velocity correlations are responsible for the emergence of non-Gaussian high-velocity tails. The tails of both distribution functions follow stretched exponentials, with the exponents depending on normal (e) and tangential (beta) restitution coefficients.     

Limiting fragmentation from scale-invariant merging of fast partons

Exploiting the idea that the fast partons of an energetic projectile can be treated as sources of colour radiation interpreted as wee partons, it is shown that the recently observed property of extended limiting fragmentation implies a scaling law for the rapidity distribution of fast partons. This leads to a picture of a self-similar process where, for fixed total rapidity Y  , the sources merge with probability varying as 1/y$1/y$.     

Scattering of light from particles with semisoft boundaries

A three-dimensional multi-Gaussian function, being a finite sum of Gaussian functions, is adopted for modeling of a spherically symmetric scatterer with a semisoft boundary, i.e. such that has continuous and adjustable drop in the index of refraction. A Gaussian sphere and a hard sphere are the two limiting cases when the number of terms in multi-Gaussian distribution is one and infinity, respectively. The effect of the boundary's softness on the intensity distribution of the scattered wave is revealed. The generalization of the model to random scatterers with semisoft boundaries is also outlined.     

Convoluted Gauss-Levy distributions and exploding Coulomb clusters

We study the kinetics and the distributions of nonequilibrium systems including Gaussian and Levy-type stochastic forces. We develop the assumption that deviations from the Maxwell distribution which are often observed in nonequilibrium systems may be described by convoluted Gauss-Levy distributions. We derive these distributions by solving Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations for the velocities including two noise sources, centrally distributed over Levy and Gauss functions. As an application, we estimate the evolution of the velocity distributions of exploding Coulomb clusters analytically and by simulations. We show the development of a shoulder in the distribution which is typical for convoluted Gauss-Levy distributions.