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We analyze the effects of finite chemical potential on spontaneous breaking of internal symmetries within the class of relativistic field theories described by the linear sigma model. Special attention is paid to the emergence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomas Brauner

The calculation of chemical potential has traditionally been a challenge in atomistic simulations. One of the most used approaches is Widom's insertion method in which the chemical potential is calculated by periodically attempting to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Claudio Perego , Federico Giberti , Michele Parrinello

In the framework of zeta-function approach the Casimir energy for three simple model system: single delta potential, step function potential and three delta potentials is analyzed. It is shown that the energy contains contributions which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nail R. Khusnutdinov

We discuss selected aspects of classical relativistic scalar field theories with nonzero chemical potential. First, we offer a review of classical field theory at nonzero density within the Lagrangian formalism. The aspects covered include…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-21 Tomas Brauner

From ultracold atoms to quantum chromodynamics, reliable ab initio studies of strongly interacting fermions require numerical methods, typically in some form of quantum Monte Carlo calculation. Unfortunately, (non)relativistic systems at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-02 Jens Braun , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Jian Deng , Joaquín E. Drut , Bengt Friman , Chen-Te Ma , Yu-Dai Tsai

Bosonic end perturbative calculations for quantum mechanical anyon systems require a regularization. I regularize by adding a specific $\delta$-function potential to the Hamiltonian. The reliability of this regularization procedure is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Amelino-Camelia

The one-loop effective action for a scalar field defined in the ultrastatic space-time where non standard logarithmic terms in the asymptotic heat-kernel expansion are present, is investigated by a generalisation of zeta-function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

A general set of methods is presented for calculating chemical potentials in solid and liquid mixtures using {\em ab initio} techniques based on density functional theory (DFT). The methods are designed to give an {\em ab initio} approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Alfe` , M. J. Gillan , G. D. Price

We outline a general formalism for treating vacuum polarization phenomena within an effective field expansion. The coupling between source charges and virtual fields is examined from the perspectives of electrostatic potentials, induced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 D. J. Flynn , I. P. Grant , H. M. Quiney

Standard lattice fermion algorithms run into the well-known sign problem at real chemical potential. In this paper we investigate the possibility of using imaginary chemical potential, and argue that it has advantages over other methods,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-07-09 M. Alford , A. Kapustin , F. Wilczek

Chemical reactions involve the movement of charges, and this work presents a mathematical model for describing chemical reactions in electrolytes. The model is developed using an energy variational method that aligns with classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Shixin Xu , Robert Eisenberg , Zilong Song , Huaxiong Huang

We study a self-interacting scalar field theory in the presence of a \delta-function background potential. The role of surface interactions in obtaining a renormalizable theory is stressed and demonstrated by a two-loop calculation. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 David J. Toms

We present a theory for rigorous quantum scattering calculations of probabilities for chemical reactions of atoms with diatomic molecules in the presence of an external electric field. The approach is based on the fully uncoupled basis set…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 T. V. Tscherbul , R. V. Krems

A detailed comparison between the Boubl\'ik-Mansoori-Carnahan-Starling-Leland (BMCSL)equation of state of hard-sphere mixtures is made with Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of the same compositions. The Lab\'ik and Smith simulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-08 David M. Heyes , Andrés Santos

The goal of this paper is to present a formalism that allows to handle four-fermion effective theories at finite temperature and density in curved space. The formalism is based on the use of the effective action and zeta function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Antonino Flachi , Takahiro Tanaka

We have used the Nernst chemical potential treatment to couple the time domains of sodium and calcium ion channel opening and closing rates to the spatial domain of the diffusing waves of the travelling calcium ions inside single cells. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-19 Keith R Willison

The quark potential model is extended to include the sea quark excitation using the random phase approximation (RPA). The effective quark interaction preserves the important Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) properties -- chiral symmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Weizhen Deng , Xiaolin Chen , Dahai Lu , Liming Yang

The one-loop effective potential for a scalar field defined on an ultrastatic space-time whose spatial part is a compact hyperbolic manifold, is studied using zeta-function regularization for the one-loop effective action. Other possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 Guido Cognola , Klaus Kirsten , Sergio Zerbini

We propose a method for identifying holographic chemical potentials of conserved charges. The guiding principle is the consistency of the identification with the thermodynamic relations and the Legendre transformation. We consider the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-30 Shin Nakamura

We discuss the inclusion of chemical potentials of the Kaluza-Klein charges in the partition function of the bosonic string with a compactified dimension on a circle. The construction of the thermodynamic potential is achieved by the path…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-07 Kiyoshi Shiraishi