Killed Random Processes and Heat Kernels

Let V(x) ≥ 0 be a given function tending to a constant at infinity. It is well known that the density of the Brownian motion B_t killed at the infinitesimal rate V is a Green's function for the heat operator with such a potential. With an appropriate generalization, its Laplace transform also gives the density of ∫ ₀ ^t V(B_s)ds. We construct such a Green's function via spectral analysis of the classical one-dimensional stationary Schrodinger operator. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 144, No. 2, pp. 423–432, August, 2005. An erratum to this article is available at .     

SR-HARDI: Spatially Regularizing High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) has recently been of great interest in mapping the orientation of intravoxel crossing fibers, and such orientation information allows one to infer the connectivity patterns prevalent among different brain regions and possible changes in such connectivity over time for various neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. The aim of this article is to propose a penalized multiscale adaptive regression model (PMARM) framework to spatially and adaptively infer the orientation distribution function (ODF) of water diffusion in regions with complex fiber configurations. In PMARM, we reformulate the HARDI imaging reconstruction as a weighted regularized least-square regression (WRLSR) problem. Similarity and distance weights are introduced to account for spatial smoothness of HARDI, while preserving the unknown discontinuities (e.g., edges between white matter and gray matter) of HARDI. The L₁ penalty function is introduced to ensure the sparse solutions of ODFs, while a scaled L₁ weighted estimator is calculated to correct the bias introduced by the L₁ penalty at each voxel. In PMARM, we integrate the multiscale adaptive regression models, the propagation-separation method, and Lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) to adaptively estimate ODFs across voxels. Experimental results indicate that PMARM can reduce the angle detection errors on fiber crossing area and provide more accurate reconstruction than standard voxel-wise methods. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.     

Density-Density Propagator of the Luttinger Model of Spin-Half Fermions after an Interaction Quench

Motivated by recent research achievement of quantum interacting systems in non-equilibrium, we consider a Luttinger model with a suddenly switched-on interaction proposed by Cazalilla [M.A. Cazalilla, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 156403]. In order to compare with real systems, we extend Cazalilla's scenario to the spinful system. To find the influence of initial states on the time evolution of some non-equilibrium systems, we mainly focus on the density-density propagator. By comparison and analysis, we discover the different behavior of this non-equilibrium system. Further, it is found that the propagator saves strong memory of initial state, and the effects of right-left interaction cancel out in total density-density propagator.     

Evolution of Arbitrary States under Fock-Darwin Hamiltonian and a Time-Dependent Electric Field

The method of path integral is employed to calculate the time evolution of the eigenstates of a charged particle under the Fock-Darwin(FD) Hamiltonian subjected to a time-dependent electric field in the plane of the system.An exact analytical expression is established for the evolution of the eigenstates.This result then provides a general solution to the time-dependent Schro¨dinger equation.     

Density-Density Propagator of the Luttinger Model of Spin-Half Fermions after an Interaction Quench

Motivated by recent research achievement of quantum interacting systems in non-equilibrium, we consider a Luttinger model with a suddenly switched-on interaction proposed by Cazalilla [M.A. Cazalilla, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 156403]. In order to compare with real systems, we extend Cazalilla's scenario to the spinful system. To find the influence of initial states on the time evolution of some non-equilibrium systems, we mainly focus on the density-density propagator. By comparison and analysis, we discover the different behavior of this non-equilibrium system. Further, it is found that the propagator saves strong memory of initial state, and the effects of right-left interaction cancel out in total density-density propagator.     

二维无限深方势阱中粒子运动的路径积分解法

用路径积分的方法计算了二维无限深方势阱中粒子的传播子,并由传播函数推导出二维无限深方势阱中粒子的波函数和能量,进一步体现了路径积分与其他经典量子化方法的等价性,反映了路径积分应用于难以处理的量子力学问题的价值.     

Quantification of the velocity acceleration factor for colloidal transport in porous media using NMR

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques were used to quantify the transport of colloids through porous media. This was achieved via the application of chemically-resolved pulsed field gradient (PFG) methods, hence probing the displacement (probability distribution) propagators of both the colloidal and continuous liquid phase. A dilute decane-in-water emulsion was used with flow through a random glass sphere packing being considered. The acquired propagators allowed for quantification of both colloidal entrapment and the velocities of both the continuous phase and the flowing colloids. The flowing colloids were found to experience a velocity acceleration factor (VAF) increase of 1.08 relative to the continuous phase. This was found to be independent of displacement observation time or flowrate. It was speculated to be a consequence of radial exclusion due to the finite size of the colloids. Simulations of the colloidal transport were also performed using a lattice Boltzmann platform and a Lagrangian particle-tracking algorithm which incorporated colloidal radial exclusion. Reasonable agreement was observed between the simulation and the experimental data.     

Quark chiral condensate from the overlap quark propagator

From the overlap lattice quark propagator calculated in the Landau gauge,we determine the quark chiral condensate by fitting operator product expansion formulas to the lattice data.The quark propagators are computed on domain wall fermion configurations generated by the RBC-UKQCD Collaborations with N_f = 2 + 1flavors.Three ensembles with different light sea quark masses are used at one lattice spacing 1/a = 1.75(4) Ge V.We obtain ψψ (2 GeV)MS =(-304(15)(20) MeV)~3in the SU(2) chiral limit.     

Studying pion effects in the quark propagator

Within the framework of Schwinger-Dyson and Bethe-Salpeter equations we investigate the importance of pions for the quark-gluon interaction. To this end we choose a truncation for the quark-gluon vertex that includes intermediate pion degrees of freedom and adjust the interaction such that unquenched lattice results for various current quark masses are reproduced. After extrapolation to the physical point we find a considerable contribution of the pion back reaction to the quark mass function as well as to the chiral condensate.