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Atomic polarization phenomena impinge upon a number of areas and processes in physics. The dielectric constant and refractive index of any gas are examples of macroscopic properties that are largely determined by the dipole polarizability.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Mitroy , M. S. Safronova , Charles W. Clark

The production of a Higgs boson in association with a $Z$ at an electron-positron collider is one of the cleanest methods for the measurement of the couplings of the Higgs boson. In view of the large production cross section at energies a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-28 Kumar Rao , Saurabh D. Rindani , Priyanka Sarmah , Balbeer Singh

It is shown how to map the quantum states of a system of free Bose particles one-to-one onto the states of a completely deterministic model. It is a classical field theory with a large (global) gauge group.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard 't Hooft

Polarization properties of the photons emitted in the two-photon decay of hydrogen-like ions are studied within the framework of the density matrix and second-order perturbation theory. In particular, we derive the polarization correlation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Filippo Fratini , Andrey Surzhykov

Recently the radiative B decay to the strange axial-vector mesons, B --> K1(1270) gamma, has been observed with rather large branching ratio. This process is particularly interesting as the subsequent K1 decay into its three body final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-12 Emi Kou , Alain Le Yaouanc , Andrey Tayduganov

We present a study of the polarization observables of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons in the process $p p \to W^\pm Z\to e^\pm \nu_e \mu^+\mu^-$ at the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider. The calculation is performed at next-to-leading order, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-13 Julien Baglio , Le Duc Ninh

$Z$ production at an $e^+e^-$ collider, associated with production of other particles, can be an accurate source of information of details of electroweak interactions, including possible interactions beyond the standard model. We discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 Kumar Rao , Saurabh D. Rindani , Priyanka Sarmah , Balbeer Singh

We describe a method for precise estimation of the polarization of a mesoscopic spin ensemble by using its coupling to a single two-level system. Our approach requires a minimal number of measurements on the two-level system for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Giedke , J. M. Taylor , D. D'Alessandro , M. D. Lukin , A. Imamoglu

Within the perturbative QCD approach, we re-calculate the branching ratio and polarization fractions of the pure annihilation decay $B \to \phi \phi$ in both the standard model (SM) and the family non-universal $Z^\prime$ model. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-24 Ying Li

Spin-boson models are essentially useful in the understanding of quantum optics, nuclear physics, quantum dissipation, and quantum computation. We discuss quantum phase transitions in various spin-boson Hamiltonians, compare, and contrast…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-18 Karyn Le Hur

We probe the spin ($J$) and parity ($P$) of the Standard Model Scalar (SMS) using existing searches sensitive to its production rate and kinematic properties. In particular, we search for the SMS decaying to a pair of $b$-quarks produced in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-17 Emily Johnson

Model independent search for signals of heavy Z' gauge bosons in low-energy four-fermion processes is analyzed. It is shown that the renormalizability of the underlying theory containing Z', formulated as a scattering in the field of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. V. Gulov , V. V. Skalozub

I discuss inclusive and semi-inclusive lepton-hadron scattering emphasizing the importance of polarization in order to study various single or double spin asymmetries and the importance of particle identification and angular resolution in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. J. Mulders

We reanalyse the potential of the LHC to discover new $Z'$ gauge bosons and to discriminate between various theoretical models. Using a fast LHC detector simulation, we have investigated how well the characteristics of $Z'$ bosons from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Dittmar , Abdelhak Djouadi , Anne-Sylvie Nicollerat

We study the breaking of parity in the spin-boson model and demonstrate unique scaling behavior of the magnetization and entanglement around the critical points for the parity breaking after suppressing the infrared divergence existing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-28 Tao Liu , Mang Feng , Lei Li , Wanli Yang , Kelin Wang

The polarization of final-state photons is a critical observable for probing the fundamental mechanisms of particle and nuclear interactions, providing insights into spin and parity structure that are inaccessible through cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-30 Xiao-Rong Lv , Yu-Tie Liang , Boxing Gou , Chuang-Xin Lin , Ai-Qiang Guo

The spin-boson model, describing a two-level system coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators, is a generic model for quantum dissipation, with manifold applications. It has also been studied as a simple example for an impurity quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Benedikt Bruognolo , Andreas Weichselbaum , Cheng Guo , Jan von Delft , Imke Schneider , Matthias Vojta

Based on a spin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport model with spin-dependent potentials incorporated using the lattice Hamiltonian method, we have studied the global spin polarization perpendicular to the reaction plane as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-10 Yin Xia , Jun Xu

We present a new set of inseparabilty inequalities to detect entanglement in $N$-spin states. These are based on negative partial transposition and involve collective spin-spin correlations of any two partitions of the entire system. They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Asoka Biswas

We establish a general formalism of the bulk spin polarization (BSP) and the current-based spin polarization (CSP) for mesoscopic ferromagnetic and spin-orbit interaction (SOI) semiconducting systems. Based on this formalism, we reveal the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Shi-Dong Liang , Guang-Yao Huang