Precision analysis of quantum corrections to the conductivity in disordered conductors

1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Steep ◽  
W. Gey ◽  
C. Lerner ◽  
M. Bei�
PIERS Online ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
Abel Garcia-Barrientos ◽  
Volodymyr V Grimalsky ◽  
E. Gutierrez-D. ◽  
Svetlana V. Koshevaya

2007 ◽  
Vol 14B (6) ◽  
pp. 423-430
Author(s):  
Ji-Hye Jeon ◽  
Ji-Hoon Na ◽  
Yoon-Gi Yang ◽  
Byeong-Ha Lee ◽  
Chang-Su Lee

Author(s):  
Michael P. Allen ◽  
Dominic J. Tildesley

This chapter contains the essential statistical mechanics required to understand the inner workings of, and interpretation of results from, computer simulations. The microcanonical, canonical, isothermal–isobaric, semigrand and grand canonical ensembles are defined. Thermodynamic, structural, and dynamical properties of simple and complex liquids are related to appropriate functions of molecular positions and velocities. A number of important thermodynamic properties are defined in terms of fluctuations in these ensembles. The effect of the inclusion of hard constraints in the underlying potential model on the calculated properties is considered, and the addition of long-range and quantum corrections to classical simulations is presented. The extension of statistical mechanics to describe inhomogeneous systems such as the planar gas–liquid interface, fluid membranes, and liquid crystals, and its application in the simulation of these systems, are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Akil ◽  
Xi Tong

Abstract We point out the necessity of resolving the apparent gauge dependence in the quantum corrections of cosmological observables for Higgs-like inflation models. We highlight the fact that this gauge dependence is due to the use of an asymmetric background current which is specific to a choice of coordinate system in the scalar manifold. Favoring simplicity over complexity, we further propose a practical shortcut to gauge-independent inflationary observables by using effective potential obtained from a polar-like background current choice. We demonstrate this shortcut for several explicit examples and present a gauge-independent prediction of inflationary observables in the Abelian Higgs model. Furthermore, with Nielsen’s gauge dependence identities, we show that for any theory to all orders, a gauge-invariant current term gives a gauge-independent effective potential and thus gauge-invariant inflationary observables.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1952 (4) ◽  
pp. 042132
Author(s):  
Lihua Ma ◽  
Xiaolan Wang ◽  
Feng Pang ◽  
Ting Kong
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2021 ◽  
pp. 462379
Author(s):  
C.R. Bernau ◽  
R.C. Jäpel ◽  
J.W. Hübbers ◽  
S. Nölting ◽  
P. Opdensteinen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens O. Andersen ◽  
Magdalena Eriksson ◽  
Anders Tranberg

Abstract Inflation is often described through the dynamics of a scalar field, slow-rolling in a suitable potential. Ultimately, this inflaton must be identified with the expectation value of a quantum field, evolving in a quantum effective potential. The shape of this potential is determined by the underlying tree-level potential, dressed by quantum corrections from the scalar field itself and the metric perturbations. Following [1], we compute the effective scalar field equations and the corrected Friedmann equations to quadratic order in both scalar field, scalar metric and tensor perturbations. We identify the quantum corrections from different sources at leading order in slow-roll, and estimate their magnitude in benchmark models of inflation. We comment on the implications of non-minimal coupling to gravity in this context.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett Goon ◽  
Scott Melville ◽  
Johannes Noller

Abstract We study quantum corrections to hypersurfaces of dimension d + 1 > 2 embedded in generic higher-dimensional spacetimes. Manifest covariance is maintained throughout the analysis and our methods are valid for arbitrary co-dimension and arbitrary bulk metric. A variety of theories which are prominent in the modern amplitude literature arise as special limits: the scalar sector of Dirac-Born-Infeld theories and their multi-field variants, as well as generic non-linear sigma models and extensions thereof. Our explicit one-loop results unite the leading corrections of all such models under a single umbrella. In contrast to naive computations which generate effective actions that appear to violate the non-linear symmetries of their classical counterparts, our efficient methods maintain manifest covariance at all stages and make the symmetry properties of the quantum action clear. We provide an explicit comparison between our compact construction and other approaches and demonstrate the ultimate physical equivalence between the superficially different results.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong-Chuan Kao ◽  
Hsiang-Nan Li

We show that the two-loop contribution to the coefficient of the Chern–Simons term in the effective action of the Yang–Mills–Chern–Simons theory is infrared finite in the background field Landau gauge. We also discuss the difficulties in verifying the conjecture, due to topological considerations, that there are no more quantum corrections to the Chern–Simons term other than the well-known one-loop shift of the coefficient.


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