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Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist eine umfassende Analyse von Erzeugung und anschließenden Zerfällen von Neutralinos im Nichtminimalen Supersymmetrischen Standardmodell (NMSSM) speziell für den nächsten verfügbaren Elektron-Positron-Speicherring LEP2 am CERN mit einer voraussichtlichen Schwerpunktsenergie von 190 GeV. Das NMSSM ist die einfachste Erweiterung des Minimalen Supersymmetrischen Standardmodells MSSM mit einem Singlett-Superfeld, so dass der Higgs-Sektor insgesamt sieben physikalische Higgs-Teilchen enthält, und zwar drei neutrale skalare, zwei pseudoskalare und zwei geladene. Weiterhin enthält das NMSSM fünf Neutralinos gegenüber vier im MSSM. In dieser Arbeit präsentieren wir die 5 x 5 Neutralinomischungsmatrix, stellen die Eigenwertgleichung auf und analysieren das Massenspektrum und die Parameterabhängigkeit möglicher masseloser Zustände. Für die Untersuchung von Neutralinoproduktion und -zerfall wurden verschiedene Szenarien gewählt, in denen das leichteste Neutralino eine Masse von 10 GeV und eine Singlettkomponente von über 90% besitzt oder in denen das leichteste Neutralino bis zu 50 Gev schwer ist und sich der Singlettanteil auf die beiden leichtesten Neutralinos verteilt. Die Wirkungsquerschnitte für die Neutralinoproduktion wurden in den gewählten Szenarien für Schwerpunktsenergien von 100 GeV bis 600 GeV berechnet, also bis zu einem Bereich, den ein geplanter Elektron-Positron-Linearbeschleuniger erreichen kann. Typische Wirkungsquerschnitte für die direkte Produktion vorwiegend singlettartiger Neutralinos liegen im Bereich von 100 fb. Selbst wenn das leichteste Neutralino sehr leicht ist, kann das nächste bereits so schwer sein, dass bei LEP2 nur die nicht nachtweisbare Paarproduktion des leichtesten supersymmetrischen Teilchens möglich ist. Somit ist bei LEP2 keine Erhöhung der unteren Neutralinomassengrenzen im NMSSM zu erwarten, falls kein Neutralino gefunden wird. In Szenarien mit leichten singlettartigen Neutralinos können sehr oft auch sehr leichte Higgs-Bosonen mit Massen unterhalb der im MSSM vorhandenen Grenzen existieren. Somit kann in allen unseren Szenarien der Neutralinozerfall in ein skalares oder pseudoskalares Higgs-Boson möglich sein und dann Verweigungsverhältnisse bis zu fast 100% erreichen. Wir berechnen in dieser Arbeit für die bei LEP2 produzierbaren Neutralinos die Verwzeigungsverhältnisse für die Zweikörperzerfälle in Higgs-Bosonen, die Dreikörperzerfälle in zwei Fermionen und den Schleifenzerfall in ein Photon. In allen Fällen befindet sich im Endzustand außerdem das unsichtbare leichteste Neutralino, dass sich experimentell als fehlende Energie niederschlägt. Zur Bestimmung der Signaturen betrachten wir außerdem die anschließenden Zerfallsmodi der leichten Higgs-Bosonen. Der Nachweis von leichten singlettartigen Neutralinos im NMSSM kann einerseits unmöglich sein, wenn entweder die schweren Neutralinos bei der verfügbaren Schwerpunktsenergie nicht produziert werden können oder über Higgs-Bosonen vollkommen in das LSP zerfallen, andererseits aber auch durch klare Signaturen mit einem Photon oder mit Jets im Endzustand erleichtert werden. Bei LEP2 sollten also durchaus Chancen bestehen, auch im Rahmen des NMSSM ein Neutralino zu entdecken. Zumindest werden sich weitere Einschränkungen des Parameterraums ergeben. Der Dissertation ist ein Anhang beigefügt, der eine vollständige Liste aller Feynman-Regeln des NMSSM enthält, die sich von denjenigen des MSSM unterscheiden.
Ein Teil der interstellaren Materie (ISM) liegt in Form von winzigen Festkörpern vor, die mit dem interstellaren Gas vermischt sind. Diese Teilchen werden als interstellarer Staub bezeichnet. Obwohl der Staubanteil an der Gesamtmasse der ISM nur etwa 1% beträgt, kann sein Einfluß auf das interstellare Strahlungsfeld und die Dynamik des Gases nicht vernachlässigt werden. So ist er die Hauptursache für Extinktion, Streuung und Polarisation von Licht. Außerdem stellt der Staub ein wichtiges Kühlmittel für das interstellare Medium dar und beeinflußt die chemischen Prozesse innerhalb der ISM. Staubpartikel unterliegen Wachstums- und Zerstörungsprozessen. So können sie Moleküle aus der Umgebung an ihrer Oberfläche anlagern (Akkretion) oder sich mit anderen Partikeln zu größeren Staubteilchen verbinden (Koagulation). Durch die Wechselwirkung mit Ionen kann Oberflächenmaterial abgetragen werden (Sputtering) und das Kollidieren von Staubpartikeln führt zu deren Zerschlagung in kleinere Teilchen oder (Shattering) deren Vaporisation. Außerdem sind Staubpartikel an das Gas gekoppelt und werden von diesem mitgerissen. Der Schwerpunkt der Vorliegenden Arbeit war die Untersuchung der dynamischen Prozesse, denen Staubpartikel bei der Durchquerung von interstellaren Stoßfronten unterworfen sind. In diesem Zusammenhang spielen vorallem die destruktiven Prozesse und die Kopplung an das Gas eine wichtige Rolle. Es wurden Gleichungen eingeführt, die die Änderung einer Staubverteilung durch diese Vorgänge beschreiben. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Modellen werden die Staubteilchen darin nicht allein durch ihre Masse, sondern auch durch ihre Geschwindigkeit charakterisiert. Auf diese Weise kann die Impulserhaltung bei einer Partikelkollision gewährleistet werden und es ist beispielsweise möglich auch Stöße gleich schwerer Partikel zu beschreiben. Die Gleichungen der Staub- und Hydrodynamik wurden für den Fall von stationären, eindimensionalen Stoßwellen numerisch gelöst, wobei die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Gas und Staub berücksichtigt wurden. Mit Hilfe des Modells wurden die Wirkung verschieden starker Stoßwellen auf eine Staubverteilung untersucht. Dabei wurden verschiedene Staubmaterialien zugrunde gelegt.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet verschiedene Aspekte des Ladungstransports in Heterokontakten aus Normal- (N) und Supraleitern (S) im Rahmen des Bogoliubov-de Gennes-Formalismus. Dabei ist der bestimmende Prozeß die Andreev-Streuung: die Streuung von Elektronen in Löcher, bzw. umgekehrt, an räumlichen Variationen des supraleitenden Paarpotentials unter Erzeugung, bzw. Vernichtung, eines Cooperpaares und damit der Induktion eines Suprastroms. Befindet sich ein Supraleiter zwischen zwei normalleitenden Bereichen, so wandelt sich der an der einen NS-Phasengrenze durch Andreev-Streuung induzierte Suprastrom an der anderen NS-Phasengrenze wieder in einen durch Quasiteilchen getragenen Strom um. Diese Umwandlung erfolgt durch den Einfall eines Quasiteilchens, dessen Charakter dem des auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite des Supraleiters einfallenden Quasiteilchens entgegengerichtet ist, wie anhand von Wellenpaket-Rechnungen explizit gezeigt wird. Ersetzt man den Supraleiter durch einen mesoskopischen SNS-Kontakt, ist die Vielteilchen-Konfiguration in der mittleren N-Schicht phasenkohärent und daher verschieden von den unkorrelierten Quasiteilchen-Anregungen, die die verschobene Fermi-Kugel in den normalleitenden Zuleitungen bilden. Die Josephson-Ströme, die durch die Quasiteilchen in der mittleren N-Schicht getragen werden, werden unter zwei verschiedenen Modellannahmen berechnet: Im einen Fall werden nur Streuzustände als Startzustände betrachtet, im anderen, bei gleichzeitiger Berücksichtigung eines normalstreuenden Potentials, nur gebundene Zustände. Der SNS-Kontakt wird durch eine supraleitend/halbleitende Heterostruktur modelliert, deren Parameter-Werte sich an den Experimenten der Gruppe von Herbert Kroemer in Santa Barbara orientieren. Wenn die supraleitenden Bereiche ohne normalleitende Zuleitungen direkt mit einem Reservoir von Cooperpaaren verbunden sind, fallen nur Quasiteilchen in Streuzuständen aus den supraleitenden Bänken auf die NS-Phasengrenzen des Kontaktes ein. Mit den Normalleiter-Wellenfunktionen, die sich bei Anlegen einer Spannung V aus diesen Startzuständen entwickeln, wird die Josephson-Wechselstromdichte in der Mitte der N-Schicht bei der Temperatur T = 2,2 K berechnet. Die Stromdichte weist spannungsabhängige Oszillationen in der Zeit auf, deren Periode das Inverse der Josephson-Frequenz ist. Alle Stromdichten zeigen bei kleinen Spannungen einen steilen Anstieg ihres Betrages, der durch Quasiteilchen zustandekommt, die durch das elektrische Feld aus dem Kondensat kommend in den Paarpotentialtopf hineingezogen werden und dort bei kleinen Spannungen eine große Zahl von Andreev-Streuungen erfahren, wobei sie bei jedem Elektron-Loch-Zyklus die Ladung 2e durch die N-Schicht transportieren. Im zweiten betrachteten Fall wird unter Berücksichtigung von Normalstreuung der Gesamtzustand des Systems zu jedem Zeitpunkt durch eine Superposition von gebundenen Zuständen ausgedrückt. Die Energie dieser gebundenen Zustände ist abhängig von der Phasendifferenz Phi zwischen den supraleitenden Schichten. Für Werte der Phasendifferenz von ganzzahligen Vielfachen von Pi sind Zustände entgegengerichteter Impulse paarweise entartet. Das normalstreuende Potential mischt diese Zustände, hebt ihre Entartung auf und führt zu Energielücken: Es bilden sich Energiebänder im Phi-Raum, die formal den Bloch-Bändern von Kristallen im Wellenzahlraum entsprechen. Wird eine äußere Spannung angelegt, so ändert sich die Phasendifferenz gemäß der Josephson-Gleichung mit der Zeit und die Quasiteilchen oszillieren in ihren jeweiligen Phi-Bloch-Bändern: Diese Josephson-Bloch-Oszillationen ergeben den "normalen" Josephson-Wechselstrom, der zwischen positiven und negativen Werten schwingt und im zeitlichen Mittel Null ist. Zusätzlich können die Quasiteilchen durch Zener-Tunneln --- wie der analoge Prozeß in der Halbleiterphysik genannt wird --- in höhere Bänder übergehen. Während sich die Richtung der Josephson-Stromdichte zu den Zeiten minimaler Energielücke umkehrt, hat die Zener-Tunnel-Stromdichte nach einem Tunnel-Prozeß das gleiche Vorzeichen, das die Josephson-Stromdichte vor dem Tunnel-Prozeß hatte. Wenn die angelegte Spannung hinreichend groß ist und genügend Quasiteilchen in das höhere Band tunneln, überkompensiert die Zener-Tunnel-Stromdichte in der Halbperiode nach dem Tunnel-Prozeß die Josephson-Stromdichte, und die Gesamtstromdichte schwingt wieder in dieselbe Richtung wie vor dem Zener-Tunneln. Somit hat sich gewissermaßen die Periode halbiert: Die Gesamtstromdichte schwingt mit der doppelten Josephson-Frequenz. Allen untersuchten Aspekten des Ladungstransports durch Heterokontakte aus Normal- und Supraleitern ist eines gemein: Der für ihr Verständnis fundamentale Prozeß ist die Andreev-Streuung.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Effekte der Paarbildung durch Wechselwirkung von hochenergetischer Gammastrahlung mit dem metagalaktischen FIR-UV Strahlungsfeld (MRF) untersucht. Einerseits hat die Paarbildung Folgen f"ur die beobachteten Spektren aktiver Galaxienkerne, andererseits hat sie auch einen gro"sen Einflu"s auf den extragalaktischen Gammastrahlungshintergrund. Es wurde ein verbesserte Version f"ur das Modell des FIR-UV Strahlungsfelds vorgestellt, mit dessen Hilfe aus beobachteten Daten intrinsische Blazarspektren ermittelt wurden. Im weiteren wurde ein auf EGRET-Blazaren basierendes Modell f"ur den Gammastrahlungshintergrund berechnet, in dem besonderer Wert auf die korrekte Beschreibung der Absorption prim"arer und der daraus resultierenden sekund"aren Gammastrahlung gelegt wurde. Schlie"slich wurde gezeigt, da"s der Beitrag von BL Lac Objekten zum Gammahintergrund nicht nur der fehlende Flu"s, sondern auch die spektrale Form der aus EGRET Beobachtungen gewonnenen Daten erkl"art werden kann, ohne den gegenw"artigen TeV-Daten zu widersprechen.
This thesis aims at a description of the equilibrium dynamics of quantum spin glass systems. To this end a generic fermionic SU(2), spin 1/2 spin glass model with infinite-range interactions is defined in the first part. The model is treated in the framework of imaginary-time Grassmann field theory along with the replica formalism. A dynamical two-step decoupling procedure, which retains the full time dependence of the (replica-symmetric) saddle point, is presented. As a main result, a set of highly coupled self-consistency equations for the spin-spin correlations can be formulated. Beyond the so-called spin-static approximation two complementary systematic approximation schemes are developed in order to render the occurring integration problem feasible. One of these methods restricts the quantum-spin dynamics to a manageable number of bosonic Matsubara frequencies. A sequence of improved approximants to some quantity can be obtained by gradually extending the set of employed discrete frequencies. Extrapolation of such a sequence yields an estimate of the full dynamical solution. The other method is based on a perturbative expansion of the self-consistency equations in terms of the dynamical correlations. In the second part these techniques are applied to the isotropic Heisenberg spin glass both on the Fock space (HSGF) and, exploiting the Popov-Fedotov trick, on the spin space (HSGS). The critical temperatures of the paramagnet to spin glass phase transitions are determined accurately. Compared to the spin-static results, the dynamics causes slight increases of T_c by about 3% and 2%, respectively. For the HSGS the specific heat C(T) is investigated in the paramagnetic phase and, by way of a perturbative method, below but close to T_c. The exact C(T)-curve is shown to exhibit a pronounced non-analyticity at T_c and, contradictory to recent reports by other authors, there is no indication of maximum above T_c. In the last part of this thesis the spin glass model is augmented with a nearest-neighbor hopping term on an infinite-dimensional cubic lattice. An extended self-consistency structure can be derived by combining the decoupling procedure with the dynamical CPA method. For the itinerant Ising spin glass numerous solutions within the spin-static approximation are presented both at finite and zero temperature. Systematic dynamical corrections to the spin-static phase diagram in the plane of temperature and hopping strength are calculated, and the location of the quantum critical point is determined.
In this thesis, a phenomenological phase-fluctuation model for the pseudogap regime of the underdoped cuprates was discussed. The key idea of the phase-fluctuation scenario in the high-T_c superconductors is the notion that the pseudogap observed in a wide variety of experiments arises from phase fluctuations of the superconducting gap. In this scenario, below a mean-field temperature scale T_c^{MF}, a d_{x^2-y^2}-wave gap amplitude is assumed to develop. However, the superconducting transition is suppressed to a considerably lower transition temperature T_c by phase fluctuations. In the intermediate temperature regime between T_c^{MF} and T_c, phase fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter give rise to the pseudogap phenomena. The phenomenological phase-fluctuation model discussed in this thesis consists of a two-dimensional BCS-like Hamiltonian where the phase of the pairing-amplitude is free to fluctuate. The fluctuations of the phase were treated by a Monte Carlo simulation of a classical XY model. First, the density of states was calculated. The quasiparticle tunneling conductance (dI/dV) obtained from our phenomenological phase fluctuation model was able to reproduce characteristic and salient features of recent scanning-tunneling studies of Bi2212 and Bi2201 suggesting that the pseudogap behavior observed in these experiments arises from phase fluctuations of the d_{x^2-y^2}-wave pairing gap. In calculating the single-particle spectral weight, we were further able to show how phase fluctuations influence the experimentally observed quasiparticle spectra in detail. In particular the disappearance of the BCS-Bogoliubov quasiparticle band at T_c and the change from a more V-like superconducting gap to a rather U-like pseudogap above T_c can be explained in a consistent way by assuming that the low-energy pseudogap in the underdoped cuprates is due to phase fluctuations of a local d_{x^2-y^2}-wave pairing gap with fixed magnitude. Furthermore, phase fluctuations can explain why the pseudogap starts closing from the nodal points, whereas it rather fills in along the anti-nodal directions and they can also account for the characteristic temperature dependence of the superconducting (pi,0)-photoemission-peak. Next, we have shown that the "violation" of the low-frequency optical sum rule recently observed in the SC state of underdoped Bi2212, which is associated with a reduction of kinetic energy, can be related to the role of phase fluctuations. The decrease in kinetic energy is due to the sharpening of the quasiparticle peaks close to the superconducting transition at T_c == T_{KT}, where the phase correlation length xi diverges. A detailed analysis of the temperature and frequency dependence of the optical conductivity sigma(omega)=sigma_1(omega)+i sigma_2(omega) revealed a superconducting scaling of sigma_2(omega), which starts already above T_c, exactly as observed in high-frequency microwave conductivity experiments on Bi2212. On the other hand, our model was only able to account for the characteristic peak, which is observed in sigma_1(omega) close to the superconducting transition, after the inclusion of an additional marginal-Fermi-liquid scattering-rate in the optical conductivity formula. Finally, we calculated the static uniform diamagnetic susceptibility. It turned out that the precursor effects of the fluctuating diamagnetism above T_c are very small and limited to temperatures close to T_c in a phase-fluctuation scenario of the pseudogap. Instead, the temperature dependence of the uniform static magnetic susceptibility is dominated by the Pauli spin susceptibility, which displayed a very characteristic temperature dependence, independent of the details of the gap function used in our model. This temperature dependence is qualitatively very similar to the experimentally observed change of the Knight-shift as a function of temperature in underdoped Bi2212.
In this work, we studied in great detail how the unknown parameters of the SUSY seesaw model can be determined from measurements of observables at or below collider energies, namely rare flavor violating decays of leptons, slepton pair production processes at linear colliders and slepton mass differences. This is a challenging task as there is an intricate dependence of the observables on the unknown seesaw, light neutrino and mSUGRA parameters. In order to separate these different influences, we first considered two classes of seesaw models, namely quasi-degenerate and strongly hierarchical right-handed neutrinos. As a generalisation, we presented a method that can be used to reconstruct the high energy seesaw parameters, among them the heavy right-handed neutrino masses, from low energy observables alone.
In this thesis we analyze CP violating effects of MSSM phases in production and two-body decays of neutralinos, charginos and sfermions. For different supersymmetric processes we define and calculate CP-odd asymmetries, which base on triple products. We present numerical results for electron-positron collisions at a future linear collider with a center of mass energy of 500-800 GeV, high luminosity and longitudinally polarized beams.
In this work the supersymmetric seesaw model and its effects on low-energy leptonic observables and thermal leptogenesis have been systematically investigated. Precision measurements will increase the sensitivity on lepton-flavor violating decays, particularly on Br(l_j->l_i gamma) and also on electric and magnetic dipole moments in the near future. In order to improve also the accuracy of theoretical predictions for these processes, we have performed a full one-loop calculation of the underlying supersymmetric processes taking into account the lepton masses. Since the mechanism of soft supersymmetry breaking (SSB) is completely unknown, a novel analysis beyond the often studied minimal Supergravity scenarios has been performed. This way it has been demonstrated that in the considered mSUGRA, AMSB, GMSB and gaugino mediated scenarios, the ongoing search for Br(mu->e gamma) can constrain fundamental SSB parameters and/or the seesaw parameters. On the other hand, the basic parameters of thermal leptogenesis, such as the CP asymmetry in the decays of the lightest right-handed Majorana neutrino, provide probes of the unknown complex orthogonal R-matrix of the seesaw model.
We investigate the single particle static and dynamic properties at zero temperature within the Hubbard an three-band-Hubbard model for the superconducting copper oxides. Based on the recently proposed self-energy functional approach (SFA) [M.Potthoff, Eur. Phys. J. B 32 429 (2003)], we present an extension of the cluster-perturbation theory (CPT) to systems with spontaneous broken symmetry. Our method accounts for both short-range correlations and long-range order. Short-range correlations are accurately taken into account via the exact diagonalization of finite clusters. Long-range order is described by variational optimization of a ficticious symmetry-breaking field. In comparison with related cluster methods, our approach is more flexible and, for a given cluster size, less demanding numerically, especially at zero temperature. An application of the method to the antiferromagnetic phase of the Hubbard model at half-filling shows good agreement with results from quantum Monte-Carlo calculations. We demonstrate that the variational extension of the cluster-perturbation theory is crucial to reproduce salient features of the single-particle spectrum of the insulating cuprates. Comparison of the dispersion of the low-energy excitations with recent experimental results of angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) allows us to fix a consistent parameter set for the one-band Hubbard model with an additional hopping parameter t' along the lattice diagonal. The doping dependence of the single-particle excitations is studied within the t-t-U Hubbard model with special emphasis on the electron doped compounds. We show, that the ARPES results on the band structure and the Fermi surface of Nd{2-x}Ce_xCuOCl_{4-\delta} are naturally obtained within the t-t-U Hubbard model without further need for readjustment or fitting of parameters, as proposed in recent theoretical considerations. We present a theory for the photon energy and polarization dependence of ARPES intensities from the CuO2 plane in the framework of strong correlation models. The importance of surface states for the observed experimental facts is considered. We show that for electric field vector in the CuO_2 plane the ‘radiation characteristics’ of the O 2p_{\sigma} and Cu 3d_{x^2-y^2} orbitals are strongly peaked along the CuO_2 plane, i.e. most photoelectrons are emitted at grazing angles. This suggests that surface states play an important role in the observed ARPES spectra, consistent with recent data from Sr_2CuCl_2O_2. We show that a combination of surface state dispersion and Fano resonance between surface state and the continuum of LEED-states may produce a precipitous drop in the observed photoelectron current as a function of in-plane momentum, which may well mimic a Fermi-surface crossing. This effect may explain the simultaneous ‘observation’ of a hole-like and an electron-like Fermi surfaces in Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta} at different photon energies.
In this PhD thesis, we develop models for the numerical simulation of epitaxial crystal growth, as realized, e.g., in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The basic idea is to use a discrete lattice gas representation of the crystal structure, and to apply kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations for the description of the growth dynamics. The main advantage of the KMC approach is the possibility to account for atomistic details and at the same time cover MBE relevant time scales in the simulation. In chapter 1, we describe the principles of MBE, pointing out relevant physical processes and the influence of experimental control parameters. We discuss various methods used in the theoretical description of epitaxial growth. Subsequently, the underlying concepts of the KMC method and the lattice gas approach are presented. Important aspects concerning the design of a lattice gas model are considered, e.g. the solid-on-solid approximation or the choice of an appropriate lattice topology. A key element of any KMC simulation is the selection of allowed events and the evaluation of Arrhenius rates for thermally activated processes. We discuss simplifying schemes that are used to approximate the corresponding energy barriers if detailed knowledge about the barriers is not available. Finally, the efficient implementation of the MC kinetics using a rejection-free algorithm is described. In chapter 2, we present a solid-on-solid lattice gas model which aims at the description of II-VI(001) semiconductor surfaces like CdTe(001). The model accounts for the zincblende structure and the relevant surface reconstructions of Cd- and Te-terminated surfaces. Particles at the surface interact via anisotropic nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions, whereas interactions in the bulk are isotropic. The anisotropic surface interactions reflect known properties of CdTe(001) like the small energy difference between the c(2x2) and (2x1) vacancy structures of Cd-terminated surfaces. A key element of the model is the presence of additional Te atoms in a weakly bound Te* state, which is motivated by experimental observations of Te coverages exceeding one monolayer at low temperatures and high Te fluxes. The true mechanism of binding excess Te to the surface is still unclear. Here, we use a mean-field approach assuming a Te* reservoir with limited occupation. In chapter 3, we perform KMC simulations of atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) of CdTe(001). We study the self-regulation of the ALE growth rate and demonstrate how the interplay of the Te* reservoir occupation with the surface kinetics results in two different regimes: at high temperatures the growth rate is limited to one half layer of CdTe per ALE cycle, whereas at low enough temperatures each cycle adds a complete layer. The temperature where the transition between the two regimes occurs depends mainly on the particle fluxes. The temperature dependence of the growth rate and the flux dependence of the transition temperature are in good qualitative agreement with experimental results. Comparing the macroscopic activation energy for Te* desorption in our model with experimental values we find semiquantitative agreement. In chapter 4, we study the formation of nanostructures with alternating stripes during submonolayer heteroepitaxy of two different adsorbate species on a given substrate. We evaluate the influence of two mechanisms: kinetic segregation due to chemically induced diffusion barriers, and strain relaxation by alternating arrangement of the adsorbate species. KMC simulations of a simple cubic lattice gas with weak inter-species binding energy show that kinetic effects are sufficient to account for stripe formation during growth. The dependence of the stripe width on control parameters is investigated. We find an Arrhenius temperature dependence, in agreement with experimental investigations of phase separation in binary or ternary material systems. Canonical MC simulations show that the observed stripes are not stable under equilibrium conditions: the adsorbate species separate into very large domains. Off-lattice simulations which account for the lattice misfit of the involved particle species show that, under equilibrium conditions, the competition between binding and strain energy results in regular stripe patterns with a well-defined width depending on both misfit and binding energies. In KMC simulations, the stripe-formation and the experimentally reported ramification of adsorbate islands are reproduced. To clarify the origin of the island ramification, we investigate an enhanced lattice gas model whose parameters are fitted to match characteristic off-lattice diffusion barriers. The simulation results show that a satisfactory explanation of experimental observations within the lattice gas framework requires a detailed incorporation of long-range elastic interactions. In the appendix we discuss supplementary topics related to the lattice gas simulations in chapter 4.
The four-dimensional Minkowski space is known to be a good description for space-time down to the length scales probed by the latest high-energy experiments. Nevertheless, there is the viable and exciting possibility that additional space-time structure will be observable in the next generation of collider experiments. Hence, we discuss different extensions of the standard model of particle physics with an extra dimension at the TeV-scale. We assume that some of the gauge and Higgs bosons propagate in one additional spatial dimension, while matter fields are confined to a four-dimensional subspace, the usual Minkowski space. After compactification on an S^1/Z_2 orbifold, an effective four-dimensional theory is obtained where towers of Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes, in addition to the standard model fields, reflect the higher-dimensional structure of space-time. The models are elaborated from the 5D Lagrangian to the Feynman rules of the KK modes. Special attention is paid to an appropriate generalization of the Rxi-gauge and the interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking and compactification. Confronting the observables in 5D standard model extensions with combined precision measurements at the Z-boson pole and the latest data from LEP2, we constrain the possible size R of the extra dimension experimentally. A multi-parameter fit of all relevant input parameters leads to bounds for the compactification scale M=1/R in the range 4-6 TeV at the 2 sigma confidence level and shows how the mass of the Higgs boson is correlated with the size of an extra dimension. Considering a future linear e+e- collider, we outline the discovery potential for an extra dimension using the proposed TESLA specifications as an example. As a consistency check for the various models, we analyze Ward identities and the gauge boson equivalence theorem in W-pair production and find that gauge symmetry is preserved by a complex interplay of the Kaluza-Klein modes. In this context, we point out the close analogy between the traditional Higgs mechanism and mass generation for gauge bosons via compactification. Beyond the tree-level, the higher-dimensional models studied extensively in the literature and in the first part of this thesis have to be extended. We modify the models by the inclusion of brane kinetic terms which are required as counter terms. Again, we derive the corresponding 4D theory for the KK towers paying special attention to gauge fixing and spontaneous symmetry breaking. Finally, the phenomenological implications of the new brane kinetic terms are investigated in detail.
The Galactic Starburst Region NGC 3603 : exciting new insights on the formation of high mass stars
(2004)
One of the most fundamental, yet still unsolved problems in star formation research is addressed by the question "How do high mass stars form?". While most details related to the formation and early evolution of low mass stars are quite well understood today, the basic processes leading to the formation of high mass stars still remain a mystery. There is no doubt that low mass stars like our Sun form via accretion of gas and dust from their natal environment. With respect to the formation of high mass stars theorists currently discuss two possible scenarios controversely: First, similar to stars of lower masses, high mass stars form by continuous (time variable) accretion of large amounts of gas and dust through their circumstellar envelopes and/or disks. Second, high mass stars form by repeated collisions (coalescence) of protostars of lower masses. Both scenarios bear difficulties which impose strong constrains on the final mass of the young star. To find evidences for or against one of these two theoretical models is a challenging task for observers. First, sites of high mass star formation are much more distant than the nearby sites of low mass star formation. Second, high mass stars form and evolve much faster than low mass star. In particular, they contract to main sequence, hydrogen burning temperatures and densities on time scales which are much shorter than typical accretion time scales. Third, as a consequence of the previous point, young high mass stars are usually deeply embedded in their natal environment throughout their (short) pre-main sequence phase. Therefore, high mass protostars are rare, difficult to find and difficult to study. In my thesis I undertake a novel approach to search for and to characterize high mass protostars, by looking into a region where young high mass stars form in the violent neighbourhood of a cluster of early type main sequence stars. The presence of already evolved O type stars provides a wealth of energetic photons and powerful stellar winds which evaporate and disperse the surrounding interstellar medium, thus "lifting the courtains" around nearby young stars at a relatively early evolutionary stage. Such premises are given in the Galactic starburst region NGC 3603. Nevertheless, a large observational effort with different telescopes and instruments -- in particular, taking advantage of the high angular resolution and high sensitivity of near and mid IR instruments available at ESO -- was necessary to achieve the goals of my study. After a basic introduction on the topic of (high mass) star formation in Chapter 1, a short overview of the investigated region NGC 3603 and its importance for both galactic and extragalactic star formation studies is given in Chapter 2. Then, in Chapter 3, I report on a comprehensive investigation of the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas and dust associated with the NGC 3603 region. In Chapter 4 I thoroughly address the radial extent of the NGC 3603 OB cluster and the spatial distribution of the cluster members. Together with deep Ks band imaging data, a detailed survey of NGC 3603 at mid IR wavelengths allows to search the neighbourhood of the cold molecular gas and dust for sources with intrinsic mid IR excess (Chapter 5). In Chapter 6 I characterize the most prominent sources of NGC 3603 IRS 9 and show that these sources are bona-fide candidates for high mass protostars. Finally, a concise summary as well as an outlook on future prospects in high mass star formation research is given in Chapter 7.
Diese Arbeit wurde durch Experimente zur Potential- und Stromverteilung in Quanten-Hall- Systemen motiviert, die in den letzten Jahren in der Abteilung von Klitzing am MPI für Festkörperforschung durchgeführt wurden und ergaben, dass elektrostatische Abschirmungseffekte in zweidimensionalen Elektronensystemen (2DES), die den ganzzahligen Quanten-Hall-Effekt (QHE) zeigen, sehr wichtig für das Verständnis der Stromverteilung innerhalb der Probe und der extremen Genauigkeit der gemessenen quantisierten Werte des Hall-Widerstands sind. Daraus ergab sich für die hier vorgelegte Arbeit das folgende Programm. Zunächst wird, nach einem einleitenden Kapitel, in Kapitel 2 der Formalismus vorgestellt, mit dem in den späteren Kapiteln Elektronendichten und elektrostatische Potentiale, die z.B. das 2DES auf eine Probe mit Streifengeometrie eingrenzen, selbstkonsistent berechnet werden. Diese Selbstkonsistenz besteht aus zwei Teilen. Erstens wird, bei vorgegebenem Potential, die Elektronendichte berechnet. Zweitens wird aus vorgegebener Ladungsverteilung, bestehend aus (positiven) Hintergrundladungen und der (im ersten Schritt berechneten) Elektronenladungsdichte, und geeigneten Randbedingungen (konstantes Potential auf metallischen Gates) durch Lösen der Poisson-Gleichung das elektrostatische Potential berechnet. Wenn wir im ersten Schritt, unter Berücksichtigung der Fermi-Dirac-Statistik, die Elektronendichte quantenmechanisch aus den Energieeigenfunktionen und -werten berechnen, erhalten wir die Hartree-Näherung, die die Dichte als nichtlokales Funktional des Potentials liefert. Wenn man die Ausdehnung der Wellenfunktionen auf der Längenskala, auf der sich das Potential typischerweise ändert, vernachlässigen kann, so vereinfacht sich die Hartree-Näherung zur Thomas- Fermi-Näherung, die einen lokalen Zusammenhang zwischen Elektronendichte und Potential beschreibt. Die meisten der konkreten Rechnungen wurden im Rahmen dieser selbstkonsistenten Thomas-Fermi-Poisson-Näherung durchgeführt. Im Kapitel 3 wird allgemein das Abschirmverhalten eines 2DES im hohen Magnetfeld untersucht. Wir betrachten die Antwort auf eine harmonische Potentialmodulation im unbegrenzten 2DES und in streifenförmig begrenzten Systemen mit zwei unterschiedlichen Arten von Randbedingungen. Bei tiefen Temperaturen und hohen Magnetfeldern finden wir extrem nichtlineare Abschirmung. Im unbegrenzten 2DES charakterisieren wir die Abschirmung, indem wir die gesamte Variation des selbstkonsistent berechneten Potentials als Funktion der Amplitude des aufgeprägten cosinus-Potentials berechnen. Bei festem Magnetfeld ergeben sich so Stufenfunktionen, deren Gestalt stark vom Füllfaktor der Landau-Niveaus im homogenen Zustand ohne aufgeprägtes Potential abhängt (siehe Abbildungen 3.2- 3.6). Vielleicht noch unerwartetere Kurven ergeben sich, wenn man bei festem Modulationspotential die Varianz des selbstkonsistenten Potentials gegen das Magnetfeld B aufträgt (Abb. 3.9). Die Resultate lassen sich aber leicht verstehen und (bei Temperatur T = 0) in einem einfachen Schema (Abb. 3.7) zusammenfassen. Als ordnendes Prinzip stellt sich heraus, dass sich stets Zustände einstellen, in denen die Elektronendichte möglichst wenig von der bei verschwindendem Magnetfeld abweicht. Wenn die Zyklotronenergie groß gegen die thermische Energie kBT ist, erfordert das, dass in den großen Bereichen, in denen die Dichte variiert, ein Landau-Niveau unmittelbar an dem, im Gleichgewicht konstanten, elektrochemischen Potential liegen muss (En, “pinning”). Man nennt diese Bereiche kompressibel. In den kompressiblen Bereichen können Elektronen leicht umverteilt werden, d.h. die Dichte ist leicht veränderbar und in diesen Bereichen gibt es extrem effektive Abschirmung. Existieren kompressible Bereiche mit unterschiedlichen Landau-Niveaus (En) am elektrochemischen Potential, z.B. bei großer Modulation oder weil die Dichte zum Probenrand hin abnimmt, so gibt es zwischen benachbarten kompressiblen Bereichen mit unterschiedlichen Landau-Quantenzahlen n “inkompressible” Bereiche, in denen zwischen zwei Landau-Niveaus liegt. Dort sind alle Landau-Niveaus unterhalb von besetzt, die oberhalb leer. Folglich ist dort der Füllfaktor ganzzahlig und die Dichte konstant. Das Wechselspiel zwischen kompressiblen und inkompressiblen Bereichen bestimmt das Abschirmverhalten. Randeffekte erweisen sich nur in solchen Magnetfeldintervallen als wichtig für die Abschirmung im Inneren einer streifenförmigen Probe, in denen (schon ohne aufgeprägte Modulation) in der Probenmitte ein neuer inkompressibler Streifen entsteht. Im Kapitel 4 wird die Rolle der inkompressiblen Streifen in einer idealisierten, streifenförmigen Hall-Probe untersucht. Mithilfe einer lokalen Version des Ohmschen Gesetzes berechnen wir bei vorgegebenen Gesamtstrom die Stromdichte und das nun ortsabhängige elektrochemische Potential, dessen Gradient die Stromdichte treibt. Für den lokalen Leitfähigkeitstensor nehmen wir ein für homogenes 2DES berechnetes Resultat und ersetzen den Füllfaktor jeweils durch den lokalen Wert. Dadurch ergibt sich, dass bei Existenz inkompressibler Streifen der gesamte Strom auf diese Streifen eingeschränkt ist, in denen die Komponenten des spezifischen Widerstands die Werte des freien, idealen 2DES haben, also verschwindenden longitudinalen und quantisierten Hall-Widerstand. Aus Hartree-Rechnungen zeigen wir, dass es inkompressible Streifen nur in Magnetfeldintervallen endlicher Breite (um ganzzahlige Füllfaktoren) gibt und dass in der Nähe von Füllfaktor 4 es nur inkompressible Streifen mit dem lokalen Füll-faktor \nu(x) = 4 gibt, aber nicht solche mit \nu(x) = 2, in Gegensatz zu dem Ergebnis der Thomas-Fermi-Poisson-Näherung, die hier nicht gültig ist. Um diese Unzulänglichkeit der Thomas-Fermi-Poisson-Näherung und Artefakte des strikt lokalen Modells zu beheben, führen wir die Rechnungen mit einem (auf der Skala des mittleren Elektronenabstands) gemittelten Leitfähigkeitstensors aus. Damit erhalten wir, im Rahmen einer Linear-Response-Rechnung, sehr schöne Übereinstimmung mit den Potentialmessungen, die diese Dissertation motivierten, einen kausalen Zusammenhang zwischen der Existenz inkompressibler Streifen und der Existenz von Plateaus im QHE, und ein Verständnis der extremen Genauigkeit, mit der die quantisierten Widerstandswerte reproduziert werden können, unabhängig von Probenmaterial und -geometrie. Im Kapitel 5 untersuchen wir das Zufallspotential, in dem sich die Elektronen bewegen. Wir gehen davon aus, dass sich hinter einer undotierten Schicht eine Ebene mit zufällig verteilten ionisierten Donatoren befindet, deren Coulomb-Potentiale sich zu dem Zufallspotential überlagern. Wir weisen darauf hin, dass sich die langreichweitigen Fluktuationen dieses Potentials anders verhalten als die kurzreichweitigen. Die kurzreichweitigen klingen mit dem Abstand der Donatorebene von der Ebene des 2DES exponentiell ab, werden aber (bei B = 0) nur schwach durch das 2DES abgeschirmt. Diese Fluktuationen haben wir durch die endlichen Leitfähigkeiten und die Stoßverbreiterung der Landau-Niveaus berücksichtigt. Die langreichweitigen Fluktuationen, andererseits, sind nur schwach von der Entfernung der Donatorebene abhängig, werden aber stark vom 2DES abgeschirmt. Diese sollte man bei der selbstkonsistenten Abschirmungsrechnung explizit berücksichtigen. Erste Versuche in dieser Richtung zeigen, dass sie die Quanten-Hall-Plateaus verbreitern, verschieben und stabilisieren können. Sie sollten besonders bei breiten Proben wichtig werden, bei denen sie zusätzliche inkompressible Streifen im Probeninneren verursachen können. Schließlich diskutieren wir in Kapitel 6 Abschirmungseffekte in einem Doppelschichtsystem aus zwei parallelen 2DES. Interessante neue Effekte treten auf, wenn die Schichten verschiedene Dichten haben. Das Auftreten inkompressibler Streifen in der einen Schicht kann dann drastische Auswirkungen auf die andere Schicht haben. Widerstandsmessungen in Abhängigkeit vom Magnetfeld, die kürzlich an solchen Systemen durchgeführt wurden, zeigen, dass am Rande eines QH-Plateaus Hysterese auftritt, d.h. dass die für ansteigendes Magnetfeld gemessene Kurve nicht mit der für abfallendes Magnetfeld gemessenen Kurve übereinstimmt, wenn dieser Magnetfeldbereich in ein QH-Plateau der anderen Schicht fällt. Wir entwickeln ein Modell und beschreiben Modellrechnungen, die dieses Phänomen plausibel machen.
The mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking is essential to provide masses to the W and Z gauge bosons and fermions of the SM. We hope to elucidate this mechanism at the next generation of colliders. While the SM has been tested with astonishing precision it is believed to be an effective theory of a more fundamental Great Unified Theory. SUSY is one of the most attractive extensions of the SM of particle physics. Therefore, the search for SUSY is a top priority at the next generation of colliders. Once Higgs bosons are discovered, a precise determination of their properties is necessary to differentiate between different models, in particular the MSSM. A muon collider, running at center of mass energies around the neutral Higgs boson resonances, would allow precise measurements of masses and widths, as well as the couplings to their decay products. In particular their couplings to supersymmetric particles are essential to probe SUSY. Therefore, we study the decays of the heavier CP-even and CP-odd Higgs bosons into lighter chargino or neutralino pairs. In this thesis we have analyzed the polarization effects of the beams and the charginos and neutralinos produced in mu+ mu- annihilation around the center of mass energies of the Higgs boson resonances H and A. For the production of equal charginos we have shown that the ratio of H-chargino and A-chargino couplings can be precisely determined independently of the chargino decay mechanism. This method avoids reference to other experiments and makes only a few model-dependent assumptions. Here we have analyzed the effect of the energy spread and of the error from the non-resonant channels, including an irreducible standard model background contribution. For small tan(beta) the process yields large cross sections of up to a pb. For the production of two different charginos we have shown that the H-A interference can be analyzed using asymmetries of the charge conjugated processes. The asymmetries depend on the muon longitudinal beam polarizations and vanish for unpolarized beams. For the chargino pair production with subsequent two-body decay of one of the charginos we have shown that charge and beam polarization asymmetries in the energy distributions of the decay particles are sensitive to the interference of scalar exchange channels with different CP quantum numbers. This process provides unique information on the interference of overlapping Higgs boson resonances. The effect is larger for regions of parameter space with intermediate values of tan(beta) and light sleptons or LSP neutralinos. For the chargino pair production with subsequent two-body decays of both charginos we have defined energy distribution and angular asymmetries in the final particles, in order to analyze the spin-spin correlations of the charginos. The transverse polarizations of the charginos are sensitive to the CP quantum number of the exchanged Higgs bosons and can thus be used to separate overlapping resonances, as well as to determine the CP quantum number of a single resonance. For equal charginos, these asymmetries are not sensitive to the interference of CP-even and CP-odd Higgs exchange channels. For the neutralino pair production in mu+ mu- annihilation we study similar processes as for chargino production. Line shape measurements of neutralino pair production allow to precisely determine the ratio of H-neutralino and A-neutralino couplings. Neutralino pair production with subsequent two-body decay of one of the neutralinos in the intermediate tan(beta) region is sensitive to the interference of H and A and may be measured with a large statistical significance. The Majorana nature of the neutralinos implies that the beam polarization asymmetries vanish for the remaining production channels. For neutralino pair production with subsequent two-body decays of both neutralinos we analyze similar observables as in chargino production. The main difference consists in the intrinsic relative CP quantum number of the neutralino pair, which depends on the chosen scenario. We have thus shown that the interaction of the Higgs bosons to the gaugino-higgsino sector can be probed at a muon collider in chargino and neutralino pair production, both analyzing the production line-shape around the resonances as well as studying the chargino and neutralino polarizations via their decays.
This thesis contains two major parts: The first part introduces the reader into three independent concepts of treating strongly correlated many body physics. These are, on the analytical side the SO(5)-theory (Chap.3), which poses the general frame. On the numerical side these are the Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) (Chap.1) and the Contractor Renormalization Group (CORE) approach (Chap. 2}). The central idea of this thesis was to combine these above concepts, in order to achieve a better understanding of the high-T_c superconductors (HTSC). The results obtained by this combination can be found in the second major part of this thesis (chapters 4 and 5). The main idea of this thesis, i.e., to combine the SO(5)-theory with the capabilities of bosonic Quantum-Monte Carlo simulations and those of the CORE approach, has been proven to be a very successful Ansatz. Two different approaches, one based on symmetry and one on renormalization-group arguments, motivate an effective bosonic Hamiltonian. In a subsequent step the effective Hamiltonian has been simulated efficiently using the SSE. The results reproduce salient experiments on high-T_c superconductors. In addition, it has been shown that the model can be extended to capture also charge ordering. These results also form a profound basis for further studies, for example one could address the open question of SO(5)-symmetry restoration at a multicritical point in the extended pSO(5) model, where longer ranged interactions are included.
Die stetige Degradation von Halbleiterlasern, speziell bei Bleichalkogenidlasern, erfordert in spektroskopischen Systemen eine regelmäßige Überwachung typischer Eigenschaften wie Abstimmcharakteristik und Linienbreite. Im Hinblick auf einen möglichst hohen Automatisierungsgrad wird langfristig eine Online-Analysemethode zur Überwachung notwendig sein. Die üblicherweise verwendete Methode, den Laserarbeitspunkt über zugrunde liegende Modenkarten einzustellen, hat den gravierenden Nachteil, dass solche Modenkarten in der Regel nicht unter dynamischen Modulationsbedingungen vermessen wurden. Gerade im dynamischen Fall sind diese Karten empfindlich abhängig gegenüber Veränderungen durch Zyklieren und Degradieren des Lasers. Etalons (Etalonsignale) sind bezüglich der Abstimmcharakteristik nicht zuverlässig genug und von daher für eine wünschenswerte Automatisierung nicht ausreichen. Modensprünge oder schwache Rückkopplungseffekte lassen sich im Interferogramm nicht ohne weiteres identifiziert. Eine erweiterte Analyse der Störungen dieser Interferogramme im Zeit-Frequenzbereich mittels einer AOK(Adaptive Optimal Kernel)-Transformation erwies sich speziell bei Signalen mit wenigen Perioden als deutlich aussagekräftiger. Mittels optischer Homodynmischung wurde die Linienbreite von Bleichalkogenidlasern ermittelt. Bei inkohärenter Überlagerung entspricht die spektrale Verteilung der Mischung der Faltung der ursprünglichen Verteilung mit sich selbst. Der Laser wird dabei nicht abgestimmt, die optische Laufzeitverzögerung wurde mittels integrierter White-Zelle realisiert. Es wurde beobachtet, dass je nach Grad des Rauschens des Injektionsstroms, das Linienbreitenprofil von Lorentz nach Gauß überging. Mit einem externen CO2-Laser als lokalen Oszillator wurden Heterodynmessungen durchgeführt. Die Linienbreite eines CO2-Lasers ist mit wenigen kHz im Vergleich zu derjenigen eines Bleichalkogenidlasers vernachlässigbar und die Überlagerung erfolgt absolut inkohärent. Gemessen wurden spektrale Verteilungen mit typischem Lorentzprofil von 10 MHz bis zu 100 MHz und darüber hinaus. Auffällig waren häufig symmetrische Nebenpeaks, die in den Bereichen der Seitenflanken des Lorentzprofils auftraten. Anhand einer numerischen Simulation eines Modells einer Laserdiode, basierend auf Ratengleichungen mit für Bleichalkogenidlasern typischen Parameterwerten, konnte verdeutlicht werden, dass sich durch das nichtlineare Lasermodell ausgeprägte Vielfache von Resonanzen bereits im Abstand von 25 MHz ausbilden können. Derartige Resonanzen tauchen im E-Feld-Spektrum als typische Relaxationsoszillationen in den Seitenbändern wieder auf und erklären die in der Messung beobachteten Nebenpeaks innerhalb der spektralen Verteilung. Die Stärke der Seitenbänder ist ein Maß für die Korrelation zwischen Phasen- und Amplitudenfluktuationen. Das Modell für die numerische Berechnung des E-Feldes wurde mit einem thermischen Verhalten erweitert. Eine umfassende Charakterisierungsmethode zur automatisierten Einstellung eines modulierten Lasersystems muss dynamisch und zeitaufgelöst erfolgen. Die Auswertung optischer Mischfrequenzen beschränkt sich dabei nicht mehr auf die direkte Interpretation von einzelnen Spektren, sondern erweitert sich auf die Analyse im Zeit-Frequenzraum. Für eine direkte und schnelle Zeitfrequenztransformation bietet sich ein „Gefensterte Fouriertransformation“ (STFT) an, die sich außerdem relativ einfach in moderne Signalprozessortechnik implementieren lässt. Sie erweist sich als sehr robust und für die hier erforderliche Analyse von Heterodynsignalen als ausreichend. Mit der Festlegung des Analysefensters innerhalb einer STFT ist die Auflösung in Zeit und Frequenz fest definiert. Analysen von Mischsignalen mit einer kontinuierlichen Wavelettransformation haben vergleichsweise gezeigt, dass Details im Zeitfrequenzraum zwar besser herausgearbeitet werden können, jedoch ist der Rechenaufwand durch die variable Skalierung und somit stark redundante Analyse und ihre Darstellung unverhältnismäßig größer. Eine Analyse des Linienbreitenprofils erfolgt dabei über die Entwicklung der Skalierung eines Signals. Die über Heterodynsignale ermittelte effektive Linienbreite bei einer modulierten Abstimmung sollte eher als „dynamische“ oder „intrinsische“ Laserlinienbreite bezeichnet werden. Eine direkte Korrelation der Frequenzvariation des Lasers mit dem Stromrauschen des Injektionsstroms ist offensichtlich. Die wirksame Bandbreite des Stromrauschens wird durch die Systemelektronik einerseits und die Modulationsbandbreite des Lasers andererseits begrenzt. Außer den wichtigen Parametern wie Abstimmung und Linienbreite lassen sich über die dynamische Zeitfrequenzanalyse von Heterodynsignalen darüber hinaus weitere Phänomene wie Rückkopplung, Modenüberlagerung oder Einschwingverhalten aufgrund direkter Kopplung zwischen Intensitäts und Frequenzmodulation beobachten.
Wir studieren die Produktion und den Nachweis von Selektronen mit Massen jenseits der Schwelle zur Paarerzeugung an künftigen Linearbeschleunigern mit Schwerpunktsenergien von 500 GeV und 800 GeV. Hierzu betrachten wir die Produktion von linken und rechten Selektronen in Assoziation mit dem jeweils leichtesten Neutralino oder Chargino durch Elektron-Elektron-, Elektron-Positron- und Elektron-Photon-Streuung im Rahmen des MSSM. Die Produktion durch Elektron-Elektron-Streuung untersuchen wir zusätzlich in zwei erweiterten Modellen, dem NMSSM und einem E6-Modell mit einem zusätzlichen U(1)-Eichfaktor.
The astronomical exploration at energies between 30\,GeV and $\lesssim$\,350\,GeV was the main motivation for building the \MAGIC-telescope. With its 17\,m \diameter\ mirror it is the worldwide largest imaging air-Cherenkov telescope. It is located at the Roque de los Muchachos at the Canary island of San Miguel de La Palma at 28.8$^\circ$\,N, 17.8$^\circ$\,W, 2200\,m a.s.l. The telescope detects Cherenkov light produced by relativistic electrons and positrons in air showers initiated by cosmic gamma-rays. The imaging technique is used to powerfully reject the background due to hadronically induced air showers from cosmic rays. Their inverse power-law energy-distribution leads to an increase of the event rate with decreasing energy threshold. For \MAGIC this implies a trigger rate in the order of 250\,Hz, and a correspondingly large data stream to be recorded and analyzed. A robust analysis software package, including the general framework \MARS, was developed and commissioned to allow automation, necessary for data taken under variable observing conditions. Since many of the astronomical sources of high-energy radiation, in particular the enigmatic gamma-ray bursts, are of a transient nature, the telescope was designed to allow repositioning in several tens of seconds, keeping a tracking accuracy of $\lesssim\,$0.01$^\circ$. Employing a starguider, a tracking accuracy of $\lesssim\,$1.3\,minutes of arc was obtained. The main class of sources at very high gamma-ray energies, known from previous imaging air-Cherenkov telescopes, are Active Galactic Nuclei with relativistic jets, the so-called high-peaked Blazars. Their spectrum is entirely dominated by non-thermal emission, spanning more than 15 orders of magnitude in energy, from radio to gamma-ray energies. Predictions based on radiation models invoking a synchrotron self-Compton or hadronic origin of the gamma-rays suggest, that a fairly large number of them should be detectable by \MAGIC. Promising candidates have been chosen from existing compilations, requiring high (synchrotron) X-ray flux, assumed to be related to a high (possibly inverse-Compton) flux at GeV energies, and a low distance, in oder to avoid strong attenuation due to pair-production in interactions with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background radiation along the line of sight. Based on this selection the first \AGN, emitting gamma-rays at 100\,GeV, 1ES\,1218+304 at a redshift of $z=0.182$, was discovered, one of the two farthest known \AGN emitting in the TeV energy region. In this context, the automated analysis chain was successfully demonstrated. The source was observed in January 2005 during six moonless nights for 8.2\,h. At the same time the collaborating \KVA-telescope, located near the \MAGIC site, observed in the optical band. The lightcurve calculated showed no day-to-day variability and is compatible with a constant flux of $F($\,$>$\,$100\,\mbox{GeV})=(8.7\pm1.4) \cdot 10^{-7}\,\mbox{m}^{-2}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}$ within the statistical errors. A differential spectrum between 87\,GeV and 630\,GeV was calculated and is compatible with a power law of $F_E(E) = (8.1\pm 2.1) \cdot 10^{-7}(E/\mbox{250\,GeV})^{-3.0\pm0.4}\,\mbox{TeV}^{-1}\,\mbox{m}^{-2}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}$ within the statistical errors. The spectrum emitted by the source was obtained by taking into account the attenuation due to pair-production with photons of the extragalactic background at low photon energies. A homogeneous, one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model has been fitted to the collected multi-wavelength data. Using the simultaneous optical data, a best fit model could be obtained from which some physical properties of the emitting plasma could be inferred. The result was compared with the so-called {\em Blazar sequence}.
Neural networks can synchronize by learning from each other. For that purpose they receive common inputs and exchange their outputs. Adjusting discrete weights according to a suitable learning rule then leads to full synchronization in a finite number of steps. It is also possible to train additional neural networks by using the inputs and outputs generated during this process as examples. Several algorithms for both tasks are presented and analyzed. In the case of Tree Parity Machines the dynamics of both processes is driven by attractive and repulsive stochastic forces. Thus it can be described well by models based on random walks, which represent either the weights themselves or order parameters of their distribution. However, synchronization is much faster than learning. This effect is caused by different frequencies of attractive and repulsive steps, as only neural networks interacting with each other are able to skip unsuitable inputs. Scaling laws for the number of steps needed for full synchronization and successful learning are derived using analytical models. They indicate that the difference between both processes can be controlled by changing the synaptic depth. In the case of bidirectional interaction the synchronization time increases proportional to the square of this parameter, but it grows exponentially, if information is transmitted in one direction only. Because of this effect neural synchronization can be used to construct a cryptographic key-exchange protocol. Here the partners benefit from mutual interaction, so that a passive attacker is usually unable to learn the generated key in time. The success probabilities of different attack methods are determined by numerical simulations and scaling laws are derived from the data. If the synaptic depth is increased, the complexity of a successful attack grows exponentially, but there is only a polynomial increase of the effort needed to generate a key. Therefore the partners can reach any desired level of security by choosing suitable parameters. In addition, the entropy of the weight distribution is used to determine the effective number of keys, which are generated in different runs of the key-exchange protocol using the same sequence of input vectors. If the common random inputs are replaced with queries, synchronization is possible, too. However, the partners have more control over the difficulty of the key exchange and the attacks. Therefore they can improve the security without increasing the average synchronization time.
In a first part the bilayer Heisenberg Model and the 2D Kondo necklace model are studied. Both models exhibit a quantum phase transition between an ordered and disordered phase. The question is addressed to the coupling of a single doped hole to the critical fluctuations. A self-consistent Born approximation predicts that the doped hole couples to the magnons such that the quasiparticle residue vanishes at the quantum critical point. In this work the delicate question about the fate of the quasiparticle residue across the quantum phase transition is also tackled by means of large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Furthermore the dynamics of a single hole doped in the magnetic background is investigated. In the second part an analysis of the spiral staircase Heisenberg ladder is presented. The ladder consists of two ferromagnetic coupled spin-1/2 chains, where the coupling within the second chain can be tuned by twisting the ladder. Within this model the crossover between an ungapped spin-1/2 system and a gapped spin-1 system can be studied. In this work the emphasis is on the opening of the spin gap with respect to the ferromagnetic rung coupling. It is shown that there are essential differences in the scaling behavior of the spin gap depending on the twist of the model. Moreover, by means of the string order parameter it is shown, that the system remains in the Haldane phase within the whole parameter range although the spin gap scales differently. The tools which are used for the analyses are mainly large scale quantum Monte Carlo methods, but also exact diagonalization techniques as well as mean field approaches.
The basic question which drove our whole work was to find a meaningful noncommutative gauge theory even for the time-like case ($\theta^{0 i} \neq 0$). In order to be able to tackle questions regarding unitarity, it is not sufficient to consider theories which include the noncommutative parameter only up to a finite order. The reason is that in order to investigate tree-level unitarity or the optical theorem in loops one has to know the behavior of the noncommutative theory for center-of-mass energies much greater than the noncommutative scale. Therefore an effective theory, that is by construction only valid up to the noncommutative scale, isn't sufficient for our purpose. Our model is based on two fundamental assumptions. The first assumption is given by the commutation relations \eqref{eq:ncalg}. This led to the Moyal-Weyl star-product \eqref{eq:astproduct2} which replaces all point-like products between two fields. The second assumption is to assume that the model built this way is not only invariant under the noncommutative gauge transformation but also under the commutative one. In order to obtain an action of such a model one has to replace the fields by their appropriate \swms. We chose the gauge fixed action \eqref{eq:actioncgf} as the fundamental action of our model. After having constructed the action of the NCQED including the {\swms} we were confronted with the problem of calculating the {\swms} to all orders in $\tMN$. By means of \cite{bbg} we could calculate the {\swms} order by order in the gauge field, where each order in the gauge field contains all orders in the noncommutative parameter (\cf chapter \ref{chapter:swms}). By comparing the maps with the result we obtained from an alternative ansatz \cite{bcpvz}, we realized that already the simplest {\swm} for the gauge field is not unique. In chapter \ref{chapter:ambiguities} we examined this ambiguity, which we could parametrised by an arbitrary function $\astf$. The next step was to derive the Feynman rules for our NCQED. One finds that the propagators remain unchanged so that the free theory is equal to the commutative QED. The fermion-fermion-photon vertex contains not only a phase factor coming from the Moyal-Weyl star-product but also two additional terms which have their origin in the \swms. Beside the 3-photon vertex which is already present in NCQED without {\swms} and which has also additional terms coming from the \swms, too, one has a contact vertex which couples two fermions with two photons. After having derived all the vertices we calculated the pair annihilation scattering process $e^+ e^- \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ at Born level. By choosing the parameter $\kggg = 1$ (\cf section \ref{sec:represent}), we found that the amplitude of the pair annihilation process becomes equal to the amplitude of the NCQED without \swms. This means that, at least for this process, the NCQED excluding {\swms} is only a special case of NCQED including \swms. On the basis of the pair annihilation process, we afterwards investigated tree-level unitarity. In order to satisfy the tree-level unitarity we had to constrain the arbitrary function $\astf$. We found that the series expansion of $\astf$ has to start with unity. In addition, the even part of the function must not increase faster than $s^{-1/2} \log(s)$ for $s \rightarrow \infty$, whereas the odd part of the $\astf$-function can't be constrained, at least by the process we considered. By assuming these constrains for the $\astf$-function, we could show that tree-level unitarity is satisfied if one incorporates the uncertainties present in the energy and the momenta of the scattered particles, \ie the uncertainties of the center-of-mass energy and the scattering angles. This uncertainties are not exclusively present due to the finite experimental resolution. A delta-like center-of-mass energy as well as delta-like momenta are in general not possible because the scattered particles are never exact plane waves.
Despite its precise agreement with the experiment, the validity of the standard model (SM) of elementary particle physics is ensured only up to a scale of several hundred GeV so far. Even more, the inclusion of gravity into an unifying theory poses a problem which cannot be solved by ordinary quantum field theory (QFT). String theory, which is the most popular ansatz for a unified theory, predicts QFT on noncommutative space-time as a low energy limit. Nevertheless, independently of the motivation given by string theory, the nonlocality inherent to noncommutative QFT opens up the possibility for the inclusion of gravity. There are no theoretical predictions for the energy scale Lambda_NC at which noncommutative effects arise and it can be assumed to lie in the TeV range, which is the energy range probed by the next generation of colliders. Within this work we study the phenomenological consequences of a possible realization of QFT on noncommutative space-time relying on this assumption. The motivation for this thesis was given by the gap in the range of phenomenological studies of noncommutative effects in collider experiments, due to the absence in the literature of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) studies regarding noncommutative QFTs. In the first part we thus performed a phenomenological analysis of the hadronic process pp -> Z gamma -> l^+l^- gamma at the LHC and of electron-positron pair annihilation into a Z boson and a photon at the International Linear Collider (ILC). The noncommutative extension of the SM considered within this work relies on two building blocks: the Moyal-Weyl star-product of functions on ordinary space-time and the Seiberg-Witten maps. The latter relate the ordinary fields and parameters to their noncommutative counterparts such that ordinary gauge transformations induce noncommutative gauge transformations. This requirement is expressed by a set of inhomogeneous differential equations (the gauge equivalence equations) which are solved by the Seiberg-Witten maps order by order in the noncommutative parameter Theta. Thus, by means of the Moyal-Weyl star-product and the Seiberg-Witten maps a noncommutative extension of the SM as an effective theory as expansion in powers of Theta can be achieved, providing the framework of our phenomenological studies. A consequence of the noncommutativity of space-time is the violation of rotational invariance with respect to the beam axis. This effect shows up in the azimuthal dependence of cross sections, which is absent in the SM as well as in other models beyond the SM. Thus, the azimuthal dependence of the cross section is a typical signature of noncommutativity and can be used in order to discriminate it against other new physics effects. We have found this dependence to be best suited for deriving the sensitivity bounds on the noncommutative scale Lambda_NC. By studying pp -> Z gamma -> l^+l^- gamma to first order in the noncommutative parameter Theta, we show in the first part of this work that measurements at the LHC are sensitive to noncommutative effects only in certain cases, giving bounds on the noncommutative scale of Lambda_NC > 1.2 TeV. Our result improved the bounds present in the literature coming from past and present collider experiments by one order of magnitude. In order to explore the whole parameter range of the noncommutativity, ILC studies are required. By means of e^+e^- -> Z gamma -> l^+l^- gamma to first order in Theta we have shown that ILC measurements are complementary to LHC measurements of the noncommutative parameters. In addition, the bounds on Lambda_NC derived from the ILC are significantly higher and reach Lambda_NC > 6 TeV. The second part of this work arose from the necessity to enlarge the range of validity of our model towards higher energies. Thus, we expand the neutral current sector of the noncommutative SM to second order in $\theta$. We found that, against the general expectation, the theory must be enlarged by additional parameters. The new parameters enter the theory as ambiguities of the Seiberg-Witten maps. The latter are not uniquely determined and differ by homogeneous solutions of the gauge equivalence equations. The expectation was that the ambiguities correspond to field redefinitions and therefore should vanish in scattering matrix elements. However, we proved that this is not the case, and the ambiguities do affect physical observables. Our conjecture is, that every order in Theta will introduce new parameters to the theory. However, only the experiment can decide to what extent efforts with still higher orders in Theta are reasonable and will also give directions for the development of theoretical models of noncommutative QFTs.
Calculations of multi-particle processes at the one-loop level: precise predictions for the LHC
(2007)
The Standard Model (SM) of elementary particle physics provides a uniform framework for the description of three fundamental forces, the electromagnetic and weak forces, describing interactions between quarks and leptons, and the strong force, describing a much stronger interaction between the coloured quarks. Numerous experimental tests have been performed in the last thirty years, showing a spectacular agreement with the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model, even at the per mille level, therefore validating the model at the quantum level. An important cornerstone of the Standard Model is the Higgs mechanism, which provides a possible explanation of electroweak symmetry breaking, responsible for the masses of elementary fermions and the W and Z bosons, the carriers of the weak force. This mechanism predicts a scalar boson, the Higgs boson, which has escaped its discovery so far. If the Higgs mechanism is indeed realised in nature, the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be able to find the associated Higgs boson. The discovery of a Higgs boson by itself is not sufficient to establish the Higgs mechanism, the basic ingredient being the Higgs potential which predicts trilinear and quartic couplings. These have to be confirmed experimentally by the study of multi-Higgs production. We therefore present a calculation of the loop-induced processes gg to HH and gg to HHH, and investigate the observability of multi-Higgs boson production at the LHC in the Standard Model and beyond. While the SM cross sections are too small to allow observation at the LHC, we demonstrate that physics beyond the SM can lead to amplified, observable cross sections. Furthermore, the applicability of the heavy top quark approximation in two- and three-Higgs boson production is investigated. We conclude that multi-Higgs boson production at the SuperLHC is an interesting probe of Higgs sectors beyond the SM and warrants further study. Despite the great success of the SM, it is widely believed that this model cannot be valid for arbitrarily high energies. The LHC will probe the TeV scale and theoretical arguments indicate the appearance of physics beyond the SM at this scale. The search for new physics requires a precise understanding of the SM. Precise theoretical predictions are needed which match the accuracy of the experiments. For the LHC, most analyses require next-to-leading order (NLO) precision. Only then will we be able to reliably verify or falsify different models. At the LHC, many interesting signatures involve more than two particles in the final state. Precise theoretical predictions for such multi-leg processes are a highly nontrivial task and new efficient methods have to be applied. The calculation of the process PP to VV+jet at NLO is an important background process to Higgs production in association with a jet at the LHC. We compute the virtual corrections to this process which form the "bottleneck" for obtaining a complete NLO prediction. The resulting analytic expressions are generated with highly automated computer routines and translated into a flexible Fortran code, which can be employed in the computation of differential cross sections of phenomenological interest. The obtained results for the virtual corrections indicate that the QCD corrections are sizable and should be taken into account in experimental studies for the LHC.
In this thesis, the low-temperature regime of replica symmetry breaking in the SK-model has been thoroughly investigated. In order to access this regime and to perform self-consistence calculations with high accuracy at high orders of replica symmetry breaking, a formalism has been developed which reduces the numerical effort to the absolute minimum. The central idea of its derivation is the identification of asymptotic regions in which the recursion relations can be solved analytically. The new object in the numerical treatment is then the correction to this asymptotic regime, represented by a sequence of so-called kernel correction functions. This method increased the effciency of the numerics considerably so that up to 200 orders of RSB could be calculated at zero temperature and zero external field, and up to 60 (65) orders of RSB for finite temperature (external field). The remarkable high precision of these calculations allowed the extraction of several quantities with accuracy exceeding the literature values by several orders of magnitude. The results of the numerical calculations have been analyzed in great detail. Especially the convergence behavior of various observables and of the order function with respect to the RSB order has been investigated since the high but finite RSB regime has been addressed in the present work for the first time. Several unexpected features of finite order replica symmetry breaking have been observed.
It is aim of this work to develop, implement, and apply a new numerical scheme for modeling turbulent, multiphase astrophysical flows such as galaxy cluster cores and star forming regions. The method combines the capabilities of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and large-eddy simulations (LES) to capture localized features and to represent unresolved turbulence, respectively; it will be referred to as Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large-Eddy SimulationS or FEARLESS.
In this PhD thesis, we study the heteroepitaxial crystal growth by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Of particular interest in this work is the influence of the lattice mismatch of the adsorbates relative to the substrate on surface structures. In the framework of an off-lattice model, we consider one monolayer of adsorbate and investigate the emerging nanopatterns in equilibrium and their formation during growth. In chapter 1, a brief introduction is given, which describes the role of computer simulations in the field of the physics of condensed matter. Chapter 2 is devoted to some technical basics of experimental methods of molecular beam epitaxy and the theoretical description. Before a model for the simulation can be designed, it is necessary to make some considerations of the single processes which occur during epitaxial growth. For that purpose we look at an experimental setup and extract the main microscopic processes. Afterwards a brief overview of different theoretical concepts describing that physical procedures is given. In chapter 3, the model used in the simulations is presented. The aim is to investigate the growth of an fcc crystal in the [111] direction. In order to keep the simulation times within a feasible limit a simple pair potential, the Lennard-Jones potential, with continuous particle positions is used, which are necessary to describe effects resulting from the atomic mismatch in the crystal. Furthermore the detailed algorithm is introduced which is based on the idea to calculate the barrier of each diffusion event and to use the barriers in a rejection-free method. Chapter 4 is attended to the simulation of equilibrium. The influence of different parameters on the emerging structures in the first monolayer upon the surface, which is completely covered with two adsorbate materials, is studied. Especially the competition between binding energy and strain leads to very interesting pattern formations like islands or stripes. In chapter 5 the results of growth simulations are presented. At first, we introduce a model in order to realize off-lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Since the costs in simulation time are enormous, some simplifications in the calculation of diffusion barriers are necessary and therefore the previous model is supplemented with some elements from the so-called ball and spring model. The next point is devoted to the calculation of energy barriers followed by the presentation of the growth simulations. Binary systems with only one sort of adsorbate are investigated as well as ternary systems with two different adsorbates. Finally, a comparison to the equilibrium simulations is drawn. Chapter 6 contains some concluding remarks and gives an outlook to possible further investigations.
In this PhD thesis, the effect of strain on heteroepitaxial growth is investigated by means of Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. In this context the lattice misfit, arising from the different lattice constants of the adsorbate and the substrate material, is of particular interest. As a consequence, this lattice misfit leads to long-range elastic strain effects having strong influence on the entire growing crystal and its resulting surface morphology. The main focus of this work is the investigation of different strain relaxation mechanisms and their controlling parameters, revealing interesting consequences on the subsequent growth. Since epitaxial growth is carried out under conditions far away from thermodynamic equilibrium, it is strongly determined by surface kinetics. At this point the relevant kinetic microscopic processes are described, followed by theoretical considerations of heteroepitaxial growth disclosing an overview over several independent methodological streams, used to model epitaxy in different time and length scales, as well as the characterization of misfit dislocations and the classification of epitaxial growth modes based on thermodynamic considerations. The epitaxial growth is performed by means of Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations which allows for the consideration of long range effects in systems with lateral extension of few hundred atoms. By using an off-lattice simulation model the particles are able to leave their predefined lattice sites, which is an indispensable condition for simulating strain relaxation mechanisms. The main idea of our used model is calculating the activation energy of all relevant thermally activated processes by using simple pair potentials and then realizing the dynamics by performing each event according to its probability by means of a rejection-free algorithm method. In addition, the crystal relaxation procedure, the grid-based particle access method, which accelerates the simulation enormously, and the efficient implementation of the algorithm are discussed. To study the influence of long range elastic strain effects, the main part of this work was realized on the two dimensional triangular lattice, which can be treated as a cross section of the real three dimensional case. Chapter 4 deals with the formation of misfit dislocations as a strain relaxation mechanism and the resulting consequences on the subsequent heteroepitaxial growth. We can distinguish between two principally different dislocation formation mechanisms, depending strongly on the sign as well as on the magnitude of the misfit, but also the surface kinetics need to be taken into account. Additionally, the dislocations affect the lattice spacings of the crystal whose observed progression is in qualitative good agreement with experimental results. Furthermore, the dislocations influence the subsequent growth of the adsorbate film, since the potential energy of an adatom is modulated by buried dislocations. A clear correlation between the lateral positions of buried dislocations and the positions of mounds grown on the surface can be observed. In chapter 5, an alternative strain relaxation mechanism is studied: the formation of three dimensional islands enables the particles to approach their preferred lattice spacing. We demonstrate that it is possible to adjust within our simulation model each of the three epitaxial growth modes: Volmer–Weber, Frank–van der Merve or layer-by-layer, and Stranski–Krastanov growth mode. Moreover, we can show that the emerging growth mode depends in principle on two parameters: on the one hand the interaction strength of adsorbate particles with each other, compared to the interaction of adsorbate with substrate particles, and on the other hand the lattice misfit between adsorbate and substrate particles. A sensible choice of these two parameters allows the realization of each growth mode within the simulations. In conclusion, the formation of nanostructures controlled by an underlying dislocation network can be applied in the concept of self-organized pattern formation as well as by the tendency to form ordered arrays of strain-induced three dimensional grown islands. In chapter 6, we extend our model to three dimensions and investigate the effect of strain on growth on bcc(100) surfaces. We introduce an anisotropic potential yielding a stable bcc lattice structure within the off-lattice representation. We can show that the strain built up in submonolayer islands is mainly released at the island edges and the lattice misfit has strong influence on the diffusion process on the plane surface as well as on the situation at island edges with eminent consequences on the appearance of submonolayer islands.
We model Milky Way like isolated disk galaxies in high resolution three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with the adaptive mesh refinement code Enzo. The model galaxies include a dark matter halo and a disk of gas and stars. We use a simple implementation of sink particles to measure and follow collapsing gas, and simulate star formation as well as stellar feedback in some cases. We investigate two largely different realizations of star formation. Firstly, we follow the classical approach to transform cold, dense gas into stars with an fixed efficiency. These kind of simulations are known to suffer from an overestimation of star formation and we observe this behavior as well. Secondly, we use our newly developed FEARLESS approach to combine hydrodynamical simulations with a semi-analytic modeling of unresolved turbulence and use this technique to dynamically determine the star formation rate. The subgrid-scale turbulence regulated star formation simulations point towards largely smaller star formation efficiencies and henceforth more realistic overall star formation rates. More work is necessary to extend this method to account for the observed highly supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds and ultimately use the turbulence regulated algorithm to simulate observed star formation relations.
Die Untersuchung stark korrelierter Elektronensysteme anhand des zweidimensionalen Hubbard-Modells bildet das zentrale Thema dieser Arbeit. Wir analysieren das Schicksal des Mott-Isolators bei Dotierung als auch bei Reduzierung der Wechselwirkungsstärke. Die numerische Auswertung erfolgt mit Hilfe von Quanten-Cluster-Approximationen, die eine thermodynamisch konsistente Beschreibung der Grundzustandseigenschaften garantieren. Der hier verwendete Rahmen der Selbstenergiefunktional-Theorie bietet eine große Flexibilität bei der Konstruktion von Cluster-Näherungen. Eine detaillierte Analyse gibt Aufschluss über die Qualität und das Konvergenzverhalten unterschiedlicher Cluster-Näherungen innerhalb der Selbstenergiefunktional-Theorie. Wir verwenden für diese Untersuchungen das eindimensionale Hubbard-Modell und vergleichen unsere Resultate mit der exakten Lösung. In zwei Dimensionen finden wir als Grundzustand des Teilchen-Loch-symmetrischen Modells bei Halbfüllung einen antiferromagnetischen Isolator unabhängig von der Wechselwirkungsstärke. Die Berücksichtigung kurzreichweitiger räumlicher Korrelationen durch unsere Cluster-Näherung führt, im Vergleich mit der dynamischen Mean-Field-Theorie, zu einer deutlichen Verbesserung des antiferromagnetischen Ordnungsparameters. Darüberhinaus beobachten wir in der paramagnetischen Phase einen Metall-Isolator-Übergang als Funktion der Wechselwirkungsstärke, der sich qualitativ vom reinen Mean-Field-Szenario unterscheidet. Ausgehend vom antiferromagnetischen Mott-Isolator zeigt sich ein füllungsgetriebener Metall-Isolator-Übergang in eine paramagnetische metallische Phase. Abhängig von der verwendeten Cluster-Approximation tritt dabei zunächst eine antiferromagnetische metallische Phase auf. Neben langreichweitiger antiferromagnetischer Ordnung haben wir in unseren Rechnungen auch Supraleitung berücksichtigt. Das Verhalten des supraleitenden Ordnungsparameters als Funktion der Dotierung ist dabei in guter Übereinstimmung sowohl mit anderen numerischen Verfahren als auch mit experimentellen Ergebnissen.
Blazars are among the most luminous sources in the universe. Their extreme short-time variability indicates emission processes powered by a supermassive black hole. With the current generation of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes, these sources are explored at very high energies. Lowering the threshold below 100 GeV and improving the sensitivity of the telescopes, more and more blazars are discovered in this energy regime. For the MAGIC telescope, a low energy analysis has been developed allowing to reach energies of 50 GeV for the first time. The method is presented in this thesis at the example of PG 1553+113 measuring a spectrum between 50 GeV and 900 GeV. In the energy regime observed by MAGIC, strong attenuation of the gamma-rays is expected from pair production due to interactions of gamma-rays with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light. For PG 1553+113, this provides the possibility to constrain the redshift of the source, which is still unknown. Well studied from radio to x-ray energies, PG 1553+113 was discovered in 2005 in the very high energy regime. In total, it was observed with the MAGIC telescope for 80~hours between April 2005 and April 2007. From more than three years of data taking, the MAGIC telescope provides huge amounts of data and a large number of files from various sources. To handle this data volume and to provide monitoring of the data quality, an automatic procedure is essential. Therefore, a concept for automatic data processing and management has been developed. Thanks to its flexibility, the concept is easily applicable to future projects. The implementation of an automatic analysis is running stable since three years in the data center in Würzburg and provides consistent results of all MAGIC data, i.e. equal processing ensures comparability. In addition, this database controlled system allows for easy tests of new analysis methods and re-processing of all data with a new software version at the push of a button. At any stage, not only the availability of the data and its processing status is known, but also a large set of quality parameters and results can be queried from the database, facilitating quality checks, data selection and continuous monitoring of the telescope performance. By using the automatic analysis, the whole data sample can be analyzed in a reasonable amount of time, and the analyzers can concentrate on interpreting the results instead. For PG 1553+113, the tools and results of the automatic analysis were used. Compared to the previously published results, the software includes improvements as absolute pointing correction, absolute light calibration and improved quality and background-suppression cuts. In addition, newly developed analysis methods taking into account timing information were used. Based on the automatically produced results, the presented analysis was enhanced using a special low energy analysis. Part of the data were affected by absorption due to the Saharan Air Layer, i.e. sanddust in the atmosphere. Therefore, a new method has been developed, correcting for the effect of this meteorological phenomenon. Applying the method, the affected data could be corrected for apparent flux variations and effects of absorption on the spectrum, allowing to use the result for further studies. This is especially interesting, as these data were taken during a multi-wavelength campaign. For the whole data sample of 54 hours after quality checks, a signal from the position of PG 1553+113 was found with a significance of 15 standard deviations. Fitting a power law to the combined spectrum between 75 GeV and 900 GeV, yields a spectral slope of 4.1 +/- 0.2. Due to the low energy analysis, the spectrum could be extended to below 50 GeV. Fitting down to 48 GeV, the flux remains the same, but the slope changes to 3.7 +/- 0.1. The determined daily light curve shows that the integral flux above 150 GeV is consistent with a constant flux. Also for the spectral shape no significant variability was found in three years of observations. In July 2006, a multi-wavelength campaign was performed. Simultaneous data from the x-ray satellite Suzaku, the optical telescope KVA and the two Cherenkov experiments MAGIC and H.E.S.S. are available. Suzaku measured for the first time a spectrum up to 30 keV. The source was found to be at an intermediate flux level compared to previous x-ray measurements, and no short time variability was found in the continuous data sample of 41.1 ksec. Also in the gamma regime, no variability was found during the campaign. Assuming a maximum slope of 1.5 for the intrinsic spectrum, an upper limit of z < 0.74 was determined by deabsorbing the measured spectrum for the attenuation of photons by the extragalactic background light. For further studies, a redshift of z = 0.3 was assumed. Collecting various data from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, x-ray and gama-ray energies, a spectral energy distribution was determined, including the simultaneous data of the multi-wavelength campaign. Fitting the simultaneous data with different synchrotron-self-compton models shows that the observed spectral shape can be explained with synchrotron-self-compton processes. The best result was obtained with a model assuming a log-parabolic electron distribution.
At the beginning of regular observations with the MAGIC telescope in December 2004, all but one extragalactic sources detected at very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays belonged to the class of high frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects. This motivated a systematic scan of candidate sources to increase the number of known sources and to study systematically their spectral properties. As candidate sources for VHE emission, X-ray bright HBLs were selected from a compilation of active galactic nuclei. The MAGIC observations took place from December 2004 to March 2006. The declination of the objects was restricted to values between -1.2° and +58.8° corresponding to a maximum zenith distance lower than 30° at culmination. Since gamma-rays are absorbed by photo-pair production in low energy background radiation fields, the redshift of the investigated objects was limitetd to z < 0.3. Under the assumption that HBLs generally emit the same energy flux at 1keV as at 200GeV, only the brightest X-ray sources were observed, leading to a cut in the X-ray flux of F(1keV) > 2µJy}. Of the fourteen sources observed, four have been detected: 1ES 1218+304 (for the first time at very high energies), 1ES 2344+514 (strong detection in a state of low activity), Mrk 421 and Mrk 501. A hint of a signal on a 3-sigma-level from the direction of 1ES 1011+496 has been observed. In the meantime the object has been confirmed as a source of VHE gamma-rays by a second MAGIC observation campaign triggered by an optical outburst. For ten sources, upper limits on their integral fluxes above 200GeV have been calculated on a 99% confidence level. To cross calibrate the different data samples, collected during 14 months, bright muon ring images have been used, recorded as background events by the MAGIC telescope. Based on the development by Meyer (2003), the method has been improved and implemented into the automatic data analysis as a continuous monitor of the calibration and the point spread function of the optical system. While the ring images are generated by muons with small impact parameters, it could be shown that the image parameter distributions for muons with large impact parameters and gamma showers completely overlap, revealing these muons as the dominant background for gamma-ray observations below energies of 150GeV. The sample of HBLs (including all HBLs detected at VHE so far) has been investigated for correlations between broad-band spectral indices as determined from simultaneous optical, archival X-ray and radio luminosities, finding that the VHE emitting HBLs do not differ from the non-detected ones. In general the absorption corrected HBL gamma-ray luminosities at 200GeV are not higher than their X-ray luminosities at 1keV. Based on a complete X-ray BL Lac sample, the Hamburg/ROSAT X-ray BL Lac sample, the number of expected VHE sources has been estimated for the performed scan, finding a consistent number under the assumption of a 37% completeness of the investigated sample and a 1keV-to-200GeV luminosity ratio of 1.4. An upper limit on the omnidirectional flux at 200GeV has been calculated by interpolating the sum over the observed fluxes and upper limits. Within the uncertainties, the result is in agreement with the expectations derived from the X-ray luminosity function of BL Lacs. For 1ES 1218+304 and 1ES 2344+514 the lightcurves have been derived, showing evidence for flux variability on a time scale of 17 days and 24h, respectively. In the case of 1ES 1218+304 variability has been reported for the first time at VHEs. For both sources the energy spectra have been reconstructed and discussed in the context of their broad band spectral energy distribution (SED), using a single zone synchrotron self Compton model. The SEDs are well fitted by the simulation even though the very high peak frequencies at gamma-rays push the model to its limits. The parameters derived from the simulation are in good agreement with the parameters found for similar HBLs.
This thesis is concerned with the description of macroscopic geometries through Loop Quantum Gravity, and there particularly with the description of cosmology within full Loop Quantum Gravity. For this purpose we depart from two distinct (classically virtually equivalent) ansätze: One is phase space reduction and the other is the restriction to particular states. It turns out that the quantum analogue of these two approaches are fundamentally different: The quantum analogue of phase space reduction needs the reformulation in terms of the observable Poisson algebra, so it can be applied to the noncommutative quantum phase space: It rests on the observation that the observable Poisson algebra of classical canonical cosmology is induced by the embedding of the reduced cosmological phase space into the phase space of full General Relativity. Using techniques related to Rieffel-induction, we develop a construction for a noncommutative embedding that has a classical limit that is described by a Poisson embedding. To be able to use this class of noncommutative embeddings for Loop Quantum Gravity, one needs a complete group of diffeomorphisms for the quantum theory, which is constructed. These two results are applied to construct a quantum embedding of a cosmological sector into full Loop Quantum Gravity. The embedded cosmological sector turns out to be discrete, like standard Loop Quantum Cosmology and can be interpreted as a super-selection sector thereof; however due to pathologies of the dynamics of full Loop Quantum Gravity, one can not induce a meaningful dynamics for this cosmological sector. The quantum analogue of restricting the space of states is achieved by explicitly constructing states for Loop Quantum Gravity with smooth geometry. These states do not exist within the Hilbert space of Loop Quantum Gravity, but as states on the observable algebra of Loop Quantum Gravity. This observable algebra is built from spin network functions, area operators and a restricted set of fluxes. For this algebra to be physically complete, we needed to construct a version of Loop Quantum Geometry based on a fundamental area operator. This version of Loop Quantum Geometry is constructed. Since the smooth geometry states are not in the Hilbert space of standard Loop Quantum Gravity, we needed to calculate the Hilbert space representation that contains them using the GNS construction. This representation of the observable algebra can be illustrated as a classical condensate of geometry with quantum fluctuations thereon. Using these representations we construct a quantum-minisuperspace, which allows for an interpretation of standard Loop Quantum Cosmology in terms of these states and led us to conjecture a new approach for the implementation of dynamics for Loop Quantum Gravity.
Supersymmetry is currently the best motivated extension of the Standard Model and will be subject to extensive studies in the upcoming generation of colliders. The e-e- mode would be a straight forward extension to the currently planed International Linear Collider, planned to operate in e+e- mode. The low background in this mode may prove advantageous in the study of CP- and Lepton Flavour Violtation. In this work a CP sensitive observable based on transverse beam polarisation is introduced and the impact of neutralino mixing on the total cross section in cas of non-vanishing CP-violtating phases is studied in representative scenarios including non-GUT scenarios. Additionally, the mixing of sleptons is studied in the context of LFV, an analytical approximation is developed, and possible background free measurements of these effects are investigated.
This thesis is dedicated to a theoretical study of the 1-band Hubbard model in the strong coupling limit. The investigation is based on the Dynamical Cluster Approximation (DCA) which systematically restores non-local corrections to the Dynamical Mean Field approximation (DMFA). The DCA is formulated in momentum space and is characterised by a patching of the Brillouin zone where momentum conservation is only recovered between two patches. The approximation works well if k-space correlation functions show a weak momentum dependence. In order to study the temperature and doping dependence of the spin- and charge excitation spectra, we explicitly extend the Dynamical Cluster Approximation to two-particle response functions. The full irreducible two-particle vertex with three momenta and frequencies is approximated by an effective vertex dependent on the momentum and frequency of the spin and/or charge excitations. The effective vertex is calculated by using the Quantum Monte Carlo method on the finite cluster whereas the analytical continuation of dynamical quantities is performed by a stochastic version of the maximum entropy method. A comparison with high temperature auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo data serves as a benchmark for our approach to two-particle correlation functions. Our method can reproduce basic characteristics of the spin- and charge excitation spectrum. Near and beyond optimal doping, our results provide a consistent overall picture of the interplay between charge, spin and single-particle excitations: a collective spin mode emerges at optimal doping and sufficiently low temperatures in the spin response spectrum and exhibits the energy scale of the magnetic exchange interaction J. Simultaneously, the low energy single-particle excitations are characterised by a coherent quasiparticle with bandwidth J. The origin of the quasiparticle can be quite well understood in a picture of a more or less antiferromagnetic ordered background in which holes are dressed by spin-excitations to allow for a coherent motion. By increasing doping, all features which are linked to the spin-polaron vanish in the single-particle as well as two-particle spin response spectrum. In the second part of the thesis an analysis of superconductivity in the Hubbard model is presented. The superconducting instability is implemented within the Dynamical Cluster Approximation by essentially allowing U(1) symmetry breaking baths in the QMC calculations for the cluster. The superconducting transition temperature T_c is derived from the d-wave order parameter which is directly estimated on the Monte Carlo cluster. The critical temperature T_c is in astonishing agreement with the temperature scale estimated by the divergence of the pair-field susceptibility in the paramagnetic phase. A detailed study of the pseudo and superconducting gap is continued by the investigation of the local and angle-resolved spectral function.
The Three-Site Higgsless Model is alternative implementation of electroweak symmetry breaking which in the Standard Model is mediated by the Higgs mechanism. The main features of this model is the appearance of two new heavy vector resonances W' and Z' with masses > 380 GeV as well as a set of new heavy fermions (> 1.8 TeV). In this model, unitarity of the amplitudes for the scattering of longitudinal gauge bosons is maintained by the exchange of the W' and Z' up to a scale of ~2 TeV. Consistency with the electroweak precision observables from the LEP / LEP-II experiments implies an exceedingly small coupling of the new vector bosons to the light Standard Model fermions (about 3% of the isospin gauge coupling). In this thesis, the LHC phenomenology of this scenario is explored. To this end, we calculated the couplings and widths of all the new particles and implemented the model into the Monte-Carlo eventgenerator WHIZARD / O'Mega. With this implementation, we simulated the parton-level production of the gauge boson and fermion partners in different channels possibly suitable for their discovery at the LHC. The results are presented together with an introduction to the model and a discussion of its properties. We find that, while the fermiophobic nature of the new heavy gauge bosons does make them intrinsically difficult to observe at a collider, the LHC should be able to establish the existence of both resonances and even give some hints about the properties of their couplings which would be a vital test of the consistency of such a scenario. For the heavy fermions, we find that their large mass is accompanied by relative widths of more than $10\%$, making them ill-suited for a direct discovery at the LHC. Nevertheless, our simulations reveal that there is a part of parameter space where, given enough time, patience and a good understanding of detector and backgrounds, a direct discovery might be possible.
Two-particle excitations, such as spin and charge excitations, play a key role in high-Tc cuprate superconductors (HTSC). Due to the antiferromagnetism of the parent compound the magnetic excitations are supposed to be directly related to the mechanism of superconductivity. In particular, the so-called resonance mode is a promising candidate for the pairing glue, a bosonic excitation mediating the electronic pairing. In addition, its interactions with itinerant electrons may be responsible for some of the observed properties of HTSC. Hence, getting to the bottom of the resonance mode is crucial for a deeper understanding of the cuprate materials . To analyze the corresponding two-particle correlation functions we develop in the present thesis a new, non-perturbative and parameter-free technique for T=0 which is based on the Variational Cluster Approach (VCA, an embedded cluster method for one-particle Green's functions). Guided by the spirit of the VCA we extract an effective electron-hole vertex from an isolated cluster and use a fully renormalized bubble susceptibility chi0 including the VCA one-particle propagators.Within our new approach, the magnetic excitations of HTSC are shown to be reproduced for the Hubbard model within the relevant strong-coupling regime. Exceptionally, the famous resonance mode occurring in the underdoped regime within the superconductivity-induced gap of spin-flip electron-hole excitations is obtained. Its intensity and hourglass dispersion are in good overall agreement with experiments. Furthermore, characteristic features such as the position in energy of the resonance mode and the difference of the imaginary part of the susceptibility in the superconducting and the normal states are in accord with Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS) experiments. For the first time, a strongly-correlated parameter-free calculation revealed these salient magnetic properties supporting the S=1 magnetic exciton scenario for the resonance mode. Besides the INS data on magnetic properties further important new insights were gained recently via ARPES (Angle-Resolved Photoemission-Spectroscopy) and Raman experiments which disclosed a quite different doping dependence of the antinodal compared to the near-nodal gap. This thesis provides an approach to the Raman response similar to the magnetic case for inspecting this gap dichotomy. In agreement with experiments and one-particle data obtained in the VCA, we recover the antinodal gap decreasing and the near-nodal gap increasing as a function of doping. Hence, our results prove the Hubbard model to account for these salient gap features. In summary, we develop a two-particle cluster approach which is appropriate for the strongly-correlated regime and contains no free parameter. Our results obtained with this new approach combined with the phase diagram and the one-particle excitations obtained in the VCA strongly constitute a Hubbard model description of HTSC cuprate materials.
The observation of neutrino masses and lepton mixing has highlighted the incompleteness of the Standard Model of particle physics. In conjunction with this discovery, new questions arise: why are the neutrino masses so small, which form has their mass hierarchy, why is the mixing in the quark and lepton sectors so different or what is the structure of the Higgs sector. In order to address these issues and to predict future experimental results, different approaches are considered. One particularly interesting possibility, are Grand Unified Theories such as SU(5) or SO(10). GUTs are vertical symmetries since they unify the SM particles into multiplets and usually predict new particles which can naturally explain the smallness of the neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism. On the other hand, also horizontal symmetries, i.e., flavor symmetries, acting on the generation space of the SM particles, are promising. They can serve as an explanation for the quark and lepton mass hierarchies as well as for the different mixings in the quark and lepton sectors. In addition, flavor symmetries are significantly involved in the Higgs sector and predict certain forms of mass matrices. This high predictivity makes GUTs and flavor symmetries interesting for both, theorists and experimentalists. These extensions of the SM can be also combined with theories such as supersymmetry or extra dimensions. In addition, they usually have implications on the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe or can provide a dark matter candidate. In general, they also predict the lepton flavor violating rare decays mu -> e gamma, tau -> mu gamma and tau -> e gamma which are strongly bounded by experiments but might be observed in the future. In this thesis, we combine all of these approaches, i.e., GUTs, the seesaw mechanism and flavor symmetries. Moreover, our request is to develop and perform a systematic model building approach with flavor symmetries and to search for phenomenological implications. This provides a new perspective in model building since it allows us to screen models by its predictions on the theoretical and phenomenological side, i.e., we can apply further model constraints to single out a desired model. The results of our approach are, e.g., diverse lepton flavor and GUT models, a systematic scan of lepton flavor violation, new mass matrices, a new understanding of lepton mixing angles, a general extension of the idea of quark-lepton complementarity theta_12=pi/4-epsilon/sqrt{2} and for the first time the QLC relation in an SU(5) GUT.
This work focuses on a fundamental problem in modern numerical rela- tivity: Extracting gravitational waves in a coordinate and gauge independent way to nourish a unique and physically meaningful expression. We adopt a new procedure to extract the physically relevant quantities from the numerically evolved space-time. We introduce a general canonical form for the Weyl scalars in terms of fundamental space-time invariants, and demonstrate how this ap- proach supersedes the explicit definition of a particular null tetrad. As a second objective, we further characterize a particular sub-class of tetrads in the Newman-Penrose formalism: the transverse frames. We establish a new connection between the two major frames for wave extraction: namely the Gram-Schmidt frame, and the quasi-Kinnersley frame. Finally, we study how the expressions for the Weyl scalars depend on the tetrad we choose, in a space-time containing distorted black holes. We apply our newly developed method and demonstrate the advantage of our approach, compared with methods commonly used in numerical relativity.
20 years after the discovery of the Crab Nebula as a source of very high energy gamma-rays, the number of sources newly discovered above 100 GeV using ground-based Cherenkov telescopes has considerably grown, at the time of writing of this thesis to a total of 81. The sources are of different types, including galactic sources such as supernova remnants, pulsars, binary systems, or so-far unidentified accelerators and extragalactic sources such as blazars and radio galaxies. The goal of this thesis work was to search for gamma-ray emission from a particular type of blazars previously undetected at very high gamma-ray energies, by using the MAGIC telescope. Those blazars previously detected were all of the same type, the so-called high-peaked BL Lacertae objects. The sources emit purely non-thermal emission, and exhibit a peak in their radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distribution at X-ray energies. The entire blazar population extends from these rare, low-luminosity BL Lacertae objects with peaks at X-ray energies to the much more numerous, high-luminosity infrared-peaked radio quasars. Indeed, the low-peaked sources dominate the source counts obtained from space-borne observations at gamma-ray energies up to 10 GeV. Their spectra observed at lower gamma-ray energies show power-law extensions to higher energies, although theoretical models suggest them to turn over at energies below 100 GeV. This opened the quest for MAGIC as the Cherenkov telescope with the currently lowest energy threshold. In the framework of this thesis, the search was focused on the prominent sources BL Lac, W Comae and S5 0716+714, respectively. Two of the sources were unambiguously discovered at very high energy gamma-rays with the MAGIC telescope, based on the analysis of a total of about 150 hours worth of data collected between 2005 and 2008. The analysis of this very large data set required novel techniques for treating the effects of twilight conditions on the data quality. This was successfully achieved and resulted in a vastly improved performance of the MAGIC telescope in monitoring campaigns. The detections of low-peaked and intermediate-peaked BL Lac objects are in line with theoretical expectations, but push the models based on electron shock acceleration and inverse-Compton cooling to their limits. The short variability time scales of the order of one day observed at very high energies show that the gamma-rays originate rather close to the putative supermassive black holes in the centers of blazars, corresponding to less than 1000 Schwarzschild radii when taking into account relativistic bulk motion.
In the context of the indirect search for non-standard physics in the flavour sector of the Standard Model (SM), one of the most interesting processes is the rare inclusive B -> X_s gamma decay. On the one hand, being a flavour-changing neutral current, this B decay is sensitive to new physics, as it is loop-suppressed in the SM. On the other hand, it is only mildly affected by non-perturbative effects, and thus allows for precise theoretical predictions in the framework of renormalization-group improved perturbation theory. Accurate measurements as well as precise theoretical predictions with a good control over both perturbative and non-perturbative contributions have to be provided in order to derive stringent constraints on the parameter space of physics beyond the SM. On the experimental side, an outstanding accuracy in the measurement of the B -> Xs gamma decay rate has been achieved, which is mainly due the specialized experiments BaBar and Belle at the so-called B factories. To match the small experimental uncertainty, higher order computations within an effective low-energy theory of the SM are mandatory. In fact, next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections are required to provide a prediction for the decay rate with the same precision as the measurement. The NNLO evaluation of the B -> Xs gamma decay rate has been pursued by various groups over the last decade. The project was completed to a large extent and a first estimate at this level of perturbation theory was obtained in 2006. This prediction, however, lacks important contributions from yet unknown matrix elements, that were estimated from results which are only partially known to date. In this work, we provide a framework for the systematic study of the missing matrix elements at the NNLO. As main results of this thesis, we determine fermionic corrections to the charm quark mass dependent matrix elements of four-quark operators in the effective theory at NNLO. For the first time, the full mass dependence was kept. Moreover, we evaluate both bosonic and fermionic corrections to the decay rate in the limit of vanishing charm quark mass. These findings, combined with yet unknown remaining real contributions, will help to reduce the uncertainty of the NNLO branching ratio estimate considerably. Another central topic of the present work is the development of an automatic high-precision computation of multi-loop multi-scale integrals, a crucial ingredient for the here presented results.
Since its popularization due to Randall and Sundrum (RS) one decade ago, and in connection with the $AdS/CFT$ correspondence in particular, 5D warped background spacetime has been one of the most fruitful new ideas in physics beyond the standard model (SM), leading to new insights into symmetry breaking and the properties of strongly interacting theories inaccessible to direct perturbative calculations, while at the same time relating gravity to phenomenological model building. This has, among others, led to a renewed interest in models of electroweak symmetry breaking without physical scalar fields in the guise of so-called 'warped higgsless' models, which could provide an alternative to the famed Higgs mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking which is part of the Standard Model of particle physics. However, little emphasis was put on reconciling these models with the strong evidence from astrophysical observations that one or several new, as yet unknown, stable particle species exist which form the cold dark matter content of the universe. The nature of dark matter and electroweak symmetry breaking are among the most prominent puzzles subject to experimental scrutiny at the Tevatron, direct search experiments, and in the near future at the LHC, which compels us the believe that both issues should be addressed together in any alternative scenario beyond the Standard Model. In this thesis we have investigated phenomenological implications which arise for cosmology and collider physics when the electroweak symmetry breaking sector of warped higgsless models is extended to include warped supersymmetry with conserved $R$ parity. The goal was to find the simplest supersymmetric extension of these models which still has a realistic light spectrum including a viable dark matter candidate. To accomplish this, we have used the same mechanism which is already at work for symmetry breaking in the electroweak sector to break supersymmetry as well, namely symmetry breaking by boundary conditions. While supersymmetry in five dimensions contains four supercharges and is therefore directly related to 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry, half of them are broken by the background leaving us with ordinary $\mathcal{N}=1$ theory in the massless sector after Kaluza-Klein expansion. We thus use boundary conditions to model the effects of a breaking mechanism for the remaining two supercharges. The simplest viable scenario to investigate is a supersymmetric bulk and IR brane without supersymmetry on the UV brane. Even though parts of the light spectrum are effectively projected out by this mechanism, we retain the rich phenomenology of complete $\mathcal{N}=2$ supermultiplets in the Kaluza-Klein sector. While the light supersymmetric spectrum consists of electroweak gauginos which get their $\mathcal{O}(100\mbox{ GeV})$ masses from IR brane electroweak symmetry breaking, the light gluinos and squarks are projected out on the UV brane. The neutralinos, as mass eigenstates of the neutral bino-wino sector, are automatically the lightest gauginos, making them LSP dark matter candidates with a relic density that can be brought to agreement with WMAP measurements without extensive tuning of parameters. For chargino masses close to the experimental lower bounds at around $m_{\chi^+}\approx 100\dots 110$ GeV, the dark matter relic density points to LSP masses of around $m_\chi\approx 90$ GeV. At the LHC, the standard particle content of our model shares most of the key features of known warped higgsless models. We have performed Monte Carlo simulations of warped higgsless LSP and NLSP production at a benchmark point using \nameomega/\namewhizard, concentrating on $\ptmiss$ in association with third generation quarks. After background reduction cuts on the quark momenta and angles, we get hadronic cross sections of $\sigma>100\mbox{ fb}$ at $14\mbox{ TeV}$ with characteristic $\ptmiss$ distributions for $\chi\chi t\overline{t}$ final states, while the final states with $b\overline{b}$ pairs have much lower event rates and shapes which are hard to discern in experiments. Our results suggest that the discovery of warped higgsless LSP dark matter at the LHC via missing energy is within reach for the first few $\mbox{ fb}^{-1}$ at $14$ TeV if $b$ and in particular $t$ identification is reliable.
We study classical scalar field theories on noncommutative curved spacetimes. Following the approach of Wess et al. [Classical Quantum Gravity 22 (2005), 3511 and Classical Quantum Gravity 23 (2006), 1883], we describe noncommutative spacetimes by using (Abelian) Drinfel’d twists and the associated ?-products and ?-differential geometry. In particular, we allow for position dependent noncommutativity and do not restrict ourselves to the Moyal–Weyl deformation. We construct action functionals for real scalar fields on noncommutative curved spacetimes, and derive the corresponding deformed wave equations. We provide explicit examples of deformed Klein–Gordon operators for noncommutative Minkowski, de Sitter, Schwarzschild and Randall–Sundrum spacetimes, which solve the noncommutative Einstein equations. We study the construction of deformed Green’s functions and provide a diagrammatic approach for their perturbative calculation. The leading noncommutative corrections to the Green’s functions for our examples are derived.
This thesis is concerned with the statistical physics of various systems far from thermal equilibrium, focusing on universal critical properties, scaling laws and the role of fluctuations. To this end we study several models which serve as paradigmatic examples, such as surface growth and non-equilibrium wetting as well as phase transitions into absorbing states. As a particular interesting example of a model with a non-conventional scaling behavior, we study a simplified model for pulsed laser deposition by rate equations and Monte Carlo simulations. We consider a set of equations, where islands are assumed to be point-like, as well as an improved one that takes the size of the islands into account. The first set of equations is solved exactly but its predictive power is restricted to the first few pulses. The improved set of equations is integrated numerically, is in excellent agreement with simulations, and fully accounts for the crossover from continuous to pulsed deposition. Moreover, we analyze the scaling of the nucleation density and show numerical results indicating that a previously observed logarithmic scaling does not apply. In order to understand the impact of boundaries on critical phenomena, we introduce particle models displaying a boundary-induced absorbing state phase transition. These are one-dimensional systems consisting of a single site (the boundary) where creation and annihilation of particles occur, while particles move diffusively in the bulk. We study different versions of these models and confirm that, except for one exactly solvable bosonic variant exhibiting a discontinuous transition with trivial exponents, all the others display a non-trivial behavior, with critical exponents differing from their mean-field values, representing a universality class. We show that these systems are related to a $(0+1)$-dimensional non-Markovian model, meaning that in nonequilibrium a phase transition can take place even in zero dimensions, if time long-range interactions are considered. We argue that these models constitute the simplest universality class of phase transition into an absorbing state, because the transition is induced by the dynamics of a single site. Moreover, this universality class has a simple field theory, corresponding to a zero dimensional limit of direct percolation with L{\'e}vy flights in time. Another boundary phenomena occurs if a nonequilibrium growing interface is exposed to a substrate, in this case a nonequilibrium wetting transition may take place. This transition can be studied through Langevin equations or discrete growth models. In the first case, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, which defines a very robust universality class for nonequilibrium moving interfaces, is combined with a soft-wall potential. While in the second, microscopic models, in the corresponding universality class, with evaporation and deposition of particles in the presence of hard-wall are studied. Equilibrium wetting is related to a particular case of the problem, corresponding to the Edwards-Wilkinson equation with a potential in the continuum approach or to the fulfillment of detailed balance in the microscopic models. In this thesis we present the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate the problem and the very rich behavior that is observed with them. The entropy production for a Markov process with a nonequilibrium stationary state is expected to give a quantitative measure of the distance form equilibrium. In the final chapter of this thesis, we consider a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang interface and investigate how entropy production varies with the interface velocity and its dependence on the interface slope, which are quantities that characterize how far the stationary state of the interface is away from equilibrium. We obtain results in agreement with the idea that the entropy production gives a measure of the distance from equilibrium. Moreover we use the same model to study fluctuation relations. The fluctuation relation is a symmetry in the large deviation function associated to the probability of the variation of entropy during a fixed time interval. We argue that the entropy and height are similar quantities within the model we consider and we calculate the Legendre transform of the large deviation function associated to the height for small systems. We observe that there is no fluctuation relation for the height, nevertheless its large deviation function is still symmetric.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde ein dreidimensionaler vollrelativistischer und parallelisierter Particle-in-Cell Code geschrieben, ausführlich getestet und angewandt. Der Code ACRONYM ist variabel einsetzbar und von der Genauigkeit und Stabilität her State-of-the-Art und somit konkurrenzfähig zu den sonstigen in der Astrophysik eingesetzten Codes anderer Gruppen. Die Energie bleibt bis auf einen Fehler von < 0.03% erhalten, die Divergenz des Magnetfeldes bleibt immer unter einem Wert von 10^{-12} und die Skalierung wurde mittlerweile bis zu einem Clustergröße von einigen 10000 CPUs getestet. In dieser Arbeit wurde dann, nach der Entwicklung des Codes, der Einfluss des fundamentalen Massenverhältnisses m_p/m_e auf die Teilchenbeschleunigung durch Plasmainstabilitäten untersucht. Dies ist relevant und wichtig, da in PiC-Simulationen in den allermeisten Fällen nicht mit dem realen Massenverhältnis gerechnet wird, da sonst viel zu viel Rechenleistung benötigt würde, um zu sehen, was mit den Protonen geschieht und was ihr Einfluss auf die leichten Teilchen wie Elektronen und Positronen ist. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Simulationen mit Massenverhältnissen zwischen m_p/m_e = 1.0 und 200.0 durchgeführt. Diese haben alle gemeinsam, dass periodische Randbedingungen verwendet wurden und das zur Verfügung stehende Simulationsgebiet mit jeweils zwei gegeneinander strömenden Plasmapopulationen vollständig gefüllt wurde, um jegliche Art von auftretenden Schocks auszuschließen. Die Rohdaten der einzelnen Simulationen wurden auf vielfältige Art und Weise analysiert, es wurden z.B. Schnitte durch die Teilchenverteilung erstellt, sowie ein- oder zweidimensionale Histogramme und Energieverläufe betrachtet. Dabei haben sich folgende Kernpunkte ergeben: Für Massenverhältnisse bis etwa m_p/m_e = 20 bildet sich die gesamte Zweistrom-Instabilität in nur einer Phase aus, das heißt, es bilden sich von ringförmigen Magnetfeldern umgebene Flussschläuche aus, die dann verschmelzen, bis nur noch zwei übrig sind und alle Teilchen werden über den gesamten Verlauf der Instabilität beschleunigt. Es ist damit zu folgern, dass die unterschiedlich schweren Teilchenspezies Protonen und Elektronen/Positronen durch die relativ nahe beieinander liegenden Massen noch so stark gekoppelt sind, dass sich nur eine Instabilität entwickeln kann. Bei großen Massenverhältnissen (m_p/m_e > 20) ist eine deutliche Trennung in zwei Phasen der Instabilität zu erkennen. Zuerst bilden sich wiederum Flussschläuche aus, diese verschmelzen miteinander (zu zweien oder mehr), bevor der erste Teil der Instabilität abflaut. Anschließend entstehen wieder ringförmige Magnetfelder und Flussschläuche, von denen einer meist deutlich stärker ist als all die anderen, das bedeutet, dass dieser von stärkeren Magnetfeldern umgeben ist und eine höhere Teilchendichte aufweist. Im Rahmen dieser zweigeteilten Instabilität werden die Elektronen und Positronen nur in der ersten Phase signifikant beschleunigt, die deutlich schwereren Protonen gewinnen über den gesamten Zeitraum Energie. Die höchstenergetischen Teilchen erreichen im Ruhesystem der jeweiligen Plasmapopulation Werte um gamma = 250. Man kann daraus für zukünftige Untersuchungen mit Hilfe von Particle-in-Cell Codes den Schluss ziehen, dass Rückschlüsse auf das tatsächliche Verhalten beim realen Massenverhältnis von m_p/m_e = 1836.2 nur aus den Simulationen mit m_p/m_e >> 20 gezogen werden können, da die starke Kopplung der leichten und schweren Teilchen bei kleineren Massenverhältnissen die Ergebnisse sehr stark beeinflusst. Es wurde anhand der gemessenen Zeitpunkte der Instabilitätsmaxima eine Extrapolation durchgeführt, die zeigt, dass die Instabilität beim realen Massenverhältnis etwa bei t = 1400 omega_{pe}^{-1} auftreten würde. Um dies wirklich zu simulieren müsste allerdings mehr als die 1000-fache Anzahl an CPU-Stunden aufgewandt werden. Des weiteren wurde eine Maxwell-Jüttner-Verteilung an die Teilchenverteilungen der einzelnen Simulationen auf dem Höhepunkt der Instabilität gefittet, um sowohl die neue Temperatur des Plasmas als auch die Beschleunigungseffizienz des Prozesses zu berechnen. Die Temperatur erhöht sich demnach durch die Instabilität von etwa 10^8K auf 10^{10} bis 10^{11}K, der Anteil suprathermischer Teilchen beträgt 2 bis 4%.
In this thesis we apply recently developed, as well as sophisticated quantum Monte Carlo methods to numerically investigate models of strongly correlated electron systems on honeycomb structures. The latter are of particular interest owing to their unique properties when simulating electrons on them, like the relativistic dispersion, strong quantum fluctuations and their resistance against instabilities. This work covers several projects including the advancement of the weak-coupling continuous time quantum Monte Carlo and its application to zero temperature and phonons, quantum phase transitions of valence bond solids in spin-1/2 Heisenberg systems using projector quantum Monte Carlo in the valence bond basis, and the magnetic field induced transition to a canted antiferromagnet of the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice. The emphasis lies on two projects investigating the phase diagram of the SU(2) and the SU(N)-symmetric Hubbard model on the hexagonal lattice. At sufficiently low temperatures, condensed-matter systems tend to develop order. An exception are quantum spin-liquids, where fluctuations prevent a transition to an ordered state down to the lowest temperatures. Previously elusive in experimentally relevant microscopic two-dimensional models, we show by means of large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the SU(2) Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice, that a quantum spin-liquid emerges between the state described by massless Dirac fermions and an antiferromagnetically ordered Mott insulator. This unexpected quantum-disordered state is found to be a short-range resonating valence bond liquid, akin to the one proposed for high temperature superconductors. Inspired by the rich phase diagrams of SU(N) models we study the SU(N)-symmetric Hubbard Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice to investigate the reliability of 1/N corrections to large-N results by means of numerically exact QMC simulations. We study the melting of phases as correlations increase with decreasing N and determine whether the quantum spin liquid found in the SU(2) Hubbard model at intermediate coupling is a specific feature, or also exists in the unconstrained t-J model and higher symmetries.
One key scientific program of the MAGIC telescope project is the discovery and detection of blazars. They constitute the most prominent extragalactic source class in the very high energy (VHE) Gamma-ray regime with 29 out of 34 known objects (as of April 2010). Therefore a major part of the available observation time was spent in the last years on high-frequency peaked blazars. The selection criteria were chosen to increase the detection probability. As the X-ray flux is believed to be correlated to the VHE Gamma-ray flux, only X-ray selected sources with a flux F(X) > 2 μJy at 1 keV were considered. To avoid strong attenuation of the Gamma-rays in the extragalactic infrared background, the redshift was restricted to values between z < 0.15 and z < 0.4, depending on the declination of the objects. The latter determines the zenith distance during culmination which should not exceed 30° (for z < 0.4) and 45° (for z < 0.15), respectively. Between August 2005 and April 2009, a sample of 24 X-ray selected high-frequency peaked blazars has been observed with the MAGIC telescope. Three of them were detected including 1ES 1218+304 being the first high-frequency peaked BL Lacertae object (HBL) to be discovered with MAGIC in VHE Gamma-rays. One previously detected object was not confirmed as VHE emitter in this campaign by MAGIC. A set of 20 blazars previously not detected will be treated more closely in this work. In this campaign, during almost four years ~ 450 hrs or ~ 22% of the available observation time for extragalactic objects were dedicated to investigate the baseline emission of blazars and their broadband spectral properties in this emission state. For the sample of 20 objects in a redshift range of 0.018 < z < 0.361 integral flux upper limits in the VHE range on the 99.7% confidence level (corresponding to 3 standard deviations) were calculated resulting in values between 2.9% and 14.7% of the integral flux of the Crab Nebula. As the distribution of significances of the individual objects shows a clear shift to positive values, a stacking method was applied to the sample. For the whole set of 20 objects, an excess of Gamma-rays was found with a significance of 4.5 standard deviations in 349.5 hours of effective exposure time. For the first time a signal stacking in the VHE regime turned out to be successful. The measured integral flux from the cumulative signal corresponds to 1.4% of the Crab Nebula flux above 150 GeV with a spectral index α = −3.15±0.57. None of the objects showed any significant variability during the observation time and therefore the detected signal can be interpreted as the baseline emission of these objects. For the individual objects lower limits on the broad-band spectral indices αX−Gamma between the X-ray range at 1 keV and the VHE Gamma-ray regime at 200 GeV were calculated. The majority of objects show a spectral behaviour as expected from the source class of HBLs: The energy output in the VHE regime is in general lower than in X-rays. For the stacked blazar sample the broad-band spectral index was calculated to αX−Gamma = 1.09, confirming the result found for the individual objects. Another evidence for the revelation of the baseline emission is the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) comprising archival as well as contemporaneous multi-wavelength data from the radio to the VHE band. The SEDs of known VHE Gamma-ray sources in low flux states matches well the SED of the stacked blazar sample.
The standard model (SM) of particle physics is for the last three decades a very successful description of the properties and interactions of all known elementary particles. Currently, it is again probed with the first collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is widely expected that new physics will be detected at the LHC and the SM has to be extended. The most exhaustive analyzed extension of the SM is supersymmetry (SUSY). SUSY can not only solve intrinsic problems of the SM like the hierarchy problem, but it also postulates new particles which might explain the nature of dark matter in the universe. The majority of all studies about dark matter in the framework of SUSY has focused on the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). The aim of this work is to consider scenarios beyond that scope. We consider two models which explain not only dark matter but also neutrino masses: the gravitino as dark matter in gauge mediated SUSY breaking (GMSB) with bilinear broken $R$-parity as well as different seesaw scenarios with the neutralino as dark matter candidate. Furthermore, we also study the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM) which solves the \(\mu\)-problem of the MSSM and discuss the properties of the neutralino as dark matter candidate. In case of $R$-parity violation, light gravitinos are often the only remaining candidate for dark matter in SUSY because of their very long life time. We reconsider the cosmological gravitino problem arising for this kind of models. It will be shown that the proposed solution for the overclosure of the universe by light gravitinos, namely the entropy production by decays of GMSB messenger, just works in a small subset of models and in fine-tuned regions of the parameter space. This is a consequence of two effects so far overlooked: the enhanced decay channels in massive vector bosons and the impact of charged messenger particles. Both aspects cause an interplay between different cosmological restrictions which lead to strong constraints on the parameters of GMSB models. Afterwards, a minimal supergravity (mSugra) scenario with additional chiral superfields at high energy scales is considered. These fields are arranged in complete $SU(5)$ multiplets in order to maintain gauge unification. The new fields generate a dimension 5 operator to explain neutrino data. Furthermore, they cause large differences in mass spectrum of MSSM fields because of the different evaluation of the renormalization group equations what changes also the properties of the lightest neutralino as dark matter candidate. We discuss the parameter space of all three possible seesaw scenarios with respect to dark matter and the impact on rare lepton flavor violating processes. As we will see, especially in seesaw type~III but also in type~II the mass spectrum and regions of parameter space consistent with dark matter differ significantly in comparison to a common mSugra scenario. Moreover, the experimental bounds, in particular of branching ratios like \(l_i \rightarrow l_j \gamma\), cause large constraints on the seesaw parameters.
We apply an antiferromagnetic symmetry breaking implementation of the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) to investigate the two-dimensional hole-doped Kondo lattice model (KLM) with hopping $t$ and coupling $J$. The DCA is an approximation at the level of the self-energy. Short range correlations on a small cluster, which is self-consistently embedded in the remaining bath electrons of the system, are handled exactly whereas longer ranged spacial correlations are incorporated on a mean-field level. The dynamics of the system, however, are retained in full. The strong temporal nature of correlations in the KLM make the model particularly suitable to investigation with the DCA. Our precise DCA calculations of single particle spectral functions compare well with exact lattice QMC results at the particle-hole symmetric point. However, our DCA version, combined with a QMC cluster solver, also allows simulations away from particle-hole symmetry and has enabled us to map out the magnetic phase diagram of the model as a function of doping and coupling $J/t$. At half-filling, our results show that the linear behaviour of the quasi-particle gap at small values of $J/t$ is a direct consequence of particle-hole symmetry, which leads to nesting of the Fermi surface. Breaking the symmetry, by inclusion of a diagonal hopping term, results in a greatly reduced gap which appears to follow a Kondo scale. Upon doping, the magnetic phase observed at half-filling survives and ultimately gives way to a paramagnetic phase. Across this magnetic order-disorder transition, we track the topology of the Fermi surface. The phase diagram is composed of three distinct regions: Paramagnetic with {\it large} Fermi surface, in which the magnetic moments are included in the Luttinger sum rule, lightly antiferromagnetic with large Fermi surface topology, and strongly antiferromagnetic with {\it small} Fermi surface, where the magnetic moments drop out of the Luttinger volume. We draw on a mean-field Hamiltonian with order parameters for both magnetisation and Kondo screening as a tool for interpretation of our DCA results. Initial results for fixed coupling and doping but varying temperature are also presented, where the aim is look for signals of the energy scales in the system: the Kondo temperature $T_{K}$ for initial Kondo screening of the magnetic moments, the Neel temperature $T_{N}$ for antiferromagnetic ordering, a possible $T^{*}$ at which a reordering of the Fermi surface is observed, and finally, the formation of the coherent heavy fermion state at $T_{coh}$.
It is widely believed that the modular organization of cellular function is reflected in a modular structure of molecular networks. A common view is that a ‘‘module’’ in a network is a cohesively linked group of nodes, densely connected internally and sparsely interacting with the rest of the network. Many algorithms try to identify functional modules in protein-interaction networks (PIN) by searching for such cohesive groups of proteins. Here, we present an alternative approach independent of any prior definition of what actually constitutes a ‘‘module’’. In a self-consistent manner, proteins are grouped into ‘‘functional roles’’ if they interact in similar ways with other proteins according to their functional roles. Such grouping may well result in cohesive modules again, but only if the network structure actually supports this. We applied our method to the PIN from the Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) and found that a representation of the network in terms of cohesive modules, at least on a global scale, does not optimally represent the network’s structure because it focuses on finding independent groups of proteins. In contrast, a decomposition into functional roles is able to depict the structure much better as it also takes into account the interdependencies between roles and even allows groupings based on the absence of interactions between proteins in the same functional role. This, for example, is the case for transmembrane proteins, which could never be recognized as a cohesive group of nodes in a PIN. When mapping experimental methods onto the groups, we identified profound differences in the coverage suggesting that our method is able to capture experimental bias in the data, too. For example yeast-two-hybrid data were highly overrepresented in one particular group. Thus, there is more structure in protein-interaction networks than cohesive modules alone and we believe this finding can significantly improve automated function prediction algorithms.
Mergers between rich clusters of galaxies represent the most violent events in the Universe. The merger events initiate a complex chain of processes that leads to the dissipation of the collisional energy. This phase of violent relaxation is accompanied by turbulence and shock waves as well as non-thermal particle acceleration. This thesis aims at the interpretation of multi-wavelength observations of the merging cluster of galaxies Abell 3376 in the framework of a theoretical model of the involved effects. Observations with the Very Large Array radio interferometer were carried out and analyzed to clarify the morphology of the non-thermal particle distribution in Abell 3376, in particular about the shocked regions. The dissipation in the hot intra-cluster gas was studied using archival X-ray observations with ROSAT and XMM. Results were compared with constrained numerical simulations of the evolution of the merger process in the framework of cosmological structure formation. For this purpose, the ENZO-Code was employed for the computation of the gas dynamics and self-gravity of the colliding mass distribution. The non-thermal properties of the intra-cluster gas could be indirectly inferred from the local Mach number and the strength of the turbulence.
By the end of the year 2011, both the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have recorded around 5 inverse femtobarns of data at an energy of 7 TeV. There are only vague hints from the already analysed data towards new physics at the TeV scale. However, one knows that around this scale, new physics should show up so that theoretical issues of the standard model of particle physics can be cured. During the last decades, extensions to the standard model that are supposed to solve its problems have been constructed, and the corresponding phenomenology has been worked out. As soon as new physics is discovered, one has to deal with the problem of determining the nature of the underlying model. A first hint is of course given by the mass spectrum and quantum numbers such as electric and colour charges of the new particles. However, there are two popular model classes, supersymmetric models and extradimensional models, which can exhibit almost equal properties at the accessible energy range. Both introduce partners to the standard model particles with the same charges and thus one needs an extended discrimination method. From the origin of these partners arises a relevant difference: The partners constructed in extradimensional models have the same spin as their standard model partners while in Supersymmetry they differ by spin 1/2.\\ These different spins have an impact on the phenomenology of the two models. For example, one can exploit the fact that the total cross sections are affected, but this requires a very good knowledge of the couplings and masses involved. Another approach uses angular distributions depending on the particle spins. A prevailing method based on this idea uses the invariant mass distribution of the visible particles in decay chains. One can relate these distributions to the spin of the particle mediating the decay since it reflects itself in the highest power of the invariant mass $\sff$ of the adjacent particles. In this thesis we first study the influence of higher than dimension 4 operators on spin determination in such decay chains. We write down the relevant dimension 5 and 6 operators and calculate their contributions to the invariant mass distribution. We discuss how they affect the determination of spin and couplings.\\ We then address two scenarios which do not involve decay chains in the usual sense. In three body decays, the method pointed out above cannot be applied since it can only be used if the mediating particle is produced on-shell. For off-shell decays, which are important e.g. in split-Supersymmetry or split-Universal Extra Dimensions, the narrow width approximation cannot be made which previously led to the simple relation between spin and the highest power of $\sff$. We work out a strategy for these three body decays that can distinguish between the different spin scenarios. The method relies on the fact that the differential decay width $d\Gamma /d\sff$ can be rewritten in this limit as a global phase space function and a polynomial in $\sff$. The coefficients in this polynomial are functions of masses and couplings and we show that they have distinct signs or ratios depending on the spins involved in the decay. We test the strategy in a series of Monte Carlo studies and discuss the influence of the intermediate particle's mass. In the last part we consider a topology with very short decay chains. Again one cannot use the relation between spin and invariant mass. We investigate one variable that has been invented for the discrimination of Supersymmetry and Universal Extra Dimensions in the high energy limit which reduces the problem to the underlying production process. We show how this variable can also be used in new physics scenarios where the high energy limit is not a viable approximation. We include all possible spin scenarios with renormalizable interactions and study in detail the influence of the involved masses and couplings on the discrimination power of this variable. We find for example that the scenario containing the supersymmetric case is well distinguishable from most other spin scenarios.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Abstrahlung von Aktiven Galaxienkernen. Das erste Maximum der charakteristischen Doppelpeakstruktur des $\nu F_{\nu}$-Spektrums vom Blazaren ist zweifelsfrei Synchrotronstrahlung hochenergetischer Elektronen innerhalb des relativistischen Ausflusses des zugrundeliegenden Aktiven Galaxienkerns. Die zum zweiten (hochenergetischen) Maximum beitragenden Strahlungsprozesse und Teilchenspezies hingegen sind Gegenstand aktueller Diskussionen. In dieser Arbeit wir ein vollständig selbstkonsistentes und zeitabhängiges hybrides Emissionsmodell, welches auch Teilchenbeschleunigung berücksichtigt, entwickelt und auf verschiedene Blazar-Typen entlang der Blazar-Sequenz, von BL Lac Objekten mit verschiedenen Peakfrequenzen bis hin zu Flachspektrum-Radioquasaren, angewendet. Die spektrale Emission ersterer kann gut im rein leptonischen Grenzfall, d.h. der zweite $\nu F_{\nu}$-Peak kommt durch invers Compton-gestreute Synchrotronphotonen der abstrahlenden Elektronen selbst zustande, beschrieben werden. Zur Beschreibung letzterer muss man nicht-thermische Protonen innerhalb des Jets zulassen um die Dominanz des zweiten Maximums im Spektrum konsistent zu erklären. In diesem Fall besteht der zweite Peak aus Protonensynchrotronstrahlung und Kaskadenstrahlung der photohadronischen Prozesse. Mit dem entwickelten Modell ist es möglich auch die zeitliche Information, welche durch Ausbrüche von Blazaren bereitgestellt wird, auszunutzen um zum einen die freien Modellparameter weiter einzuschränken und -viel wichtiger- zum anderen leptonisch dominierte Blazare von hadronischen zu unterscheiden. Hierzu werden die typischen Zeitunterschiede in den Interbandlichtkurven als hadronischer Fingerabdruck benutzt.\\ Mit einer Stichprobe von 16 Spektren von zehn Blazaren entlang der Blazar-Sequenz, welche in unterschiedlichen Flusszuständen und mit starker Variabilität beobachtet wurden, ist es möglich die wichtigsten offenen Fragen der Physik relativistischer Ausbrüche in systematischer Art und Weise zu adressieren. Anhand der modellierten Ausbrüche kann man erkennen, dass sechs Quellen rein leptonisch dominiert sind, aber vier Protonen bis auf $\gamma \approx 10^{11}$ beschleunigen, was Auswirkungen auf die möglichen Quellen extragalaktischer kosmischer Strahlung unter den Blazaren hat. Darüber hinaus findet sich eine Abhängigkeit zwischen dem Magnetfeld der Emissionsregion und der injizierten Leuchtkraft, welche unabhängig von den zugrunde liegenden Teilchenpopulationen Gültigkeit besitzt. In diesem Zusammenhang lässt sich die Blazar-Sequenz als ein evolutionäres Szenario erklären: die Sequenz $FSRQ \rightarrow LBL/IBL \rightarrow HBL$ kommt aufgrund abnehmender Gasdichte der Hostgalaxie und damit einhergehender abnehmender Akkretionsrate zustande, dies wird durch weitere kosmologische Beobachtungen bestätigt. Eine abnehmende Materiedichte innerhalb des relativistischen Ausflusses wird von einem abnehmenden Magnetfeld begleitet, d.h. aber auch, dass Protonen weit vor den Elektronen nicht mehr im Strahlungsgebiet gehalten werden können. Die Blazar-Sequenz ist also ein Maß für die Hadronizität des Jets. Dies erklärt zudem die Dichotomie von FSRQs und BL Lac Objekten sowie die Zweiteilung in anderen Erscheinungsformen von AGN, z.B. FR-I und FR-II Radiogalaxien.\\ Während der Modellierung wird gezeigt, dass man Blazar-Spektren, speziell im hadronischen Fall, nicht mehr statisch betrachten kann, da es zu kumulierten Effekten aufgrund der langen Protonensynchrotronzeitskala kommt. Die niedrige Luminosität der Quellen und unterschiedlich lange Beobachtungszeiten verschiedener Experimente verlangen bei variablen Blazaren auch im leptonischen Fall eine zeitabhängige Betrachtung. Die Kurzzeitvariabilität scheint bei einzelnen Blazaren stets die selbe Ursache zu haben, unterscheidet sich aber bei der Betrachtung verschiedener Quellen. Zusätzlich wird für jeden Blazar, der in verschiedenen Flusszuständen beobachtet werden konnte, der Unterschied zwischen Lang- und Kurzzeitvariabilität, auch im Hinblick auf einen möglichen globalen Grundzustand hin, betrachtet.
Using the particle-resolved aerosol model PartMC-MOSAIC, we simulate the heterogeneous oxidation of a monolayer of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on soot particles in an urban atmosphere. We focus on the interaction of the major atmospheric oxidants (O3, NO2, OH, and NO3) with PAHs and include competitive co-adsorption of water vapour for a range of atmospheric conditions. For the first time detailed heterogeneous chemistry based on the P¨oschl-Rudich-Ammann (PRA) framework is modelled on soot particles with a realistic size distribution and a continuous range of chemical ages. We find PAH half-lives, 1/2, on the order of seconds during the night, when the PAHs are rapidly oxidised by the gas-surface reaction with NO3. During the day, 1/2 is on the order of minutes and determined mostly by the surface layer reaction of PAHs with adsorbed O3. Such short half-lives of surface-bound PAHs may lead to efficient conversion of hydrophobic soot into more hygroscopic particles, thus increasing the particles’ aerosol-cloud interaction potential. Despite its high reactivity OH appears to have a negligible effect on PAH degradation which can be explained by its very low concentration in the atmosphere. An increase of relative humidity (RH) from 30% to 80% increases PAH half-lives by up to 50%for daytime degradation and by up to 100% or more for nighttime degradation. Uptake coefficients, averaged over the particle population, are found to be relatively constant over time for O3 (2×10-7 to 2×10-6) and NO2 (5×10-6 to 10-5) at the different levels of NOx emissions and RH considered in this study. In contrast, those for OH and NO3 depend strongly on the surface concentration of PAHs. We do not find a significant influence of heterogeneous reactions on soot particles on the gas phase composition. The derived half-lives of surfacebound PAHs and the time and particle population averaged uptake coefficients for O3 and NO2 presented in this paper can be used as parameterisations for the treatment of heterogeneous chemistry in large-scale atmospheric chemistry models.
Hochenergetische solare Teilchen werden bei ihrem Transport durch die Heliosphäre an turbulenten Magnetfeldern gestreut. Für das Verständnis dieses Streuprozesses ergeben sich aus heutiger Sicht zwei wesentliche Hindernisse: - Bei der Streuung hochenergetischer Teilchen an turbulenten Magnetfeldern handelt es sich um einen nichtlinearen Prozess, der durch analytische Theorien kaum zu beschreiben ist. - Der Streuprozess hängt stark von den tatsächlichen Magnetfeldern und somit auch von der Magnetfeldturbulenz ab. Unser bisheriges Verständnis der heliosphärischen Turbulenz ist leider aufgrund spärlicher experimenteller Daten deutlich eingeschränkt, was eine qualifizierte Umsetzung in analytischen und numerischen Ansätzen deutlich erschwert. Dies machte in der Vergangenheit künstliche Annahmen für die Modellerstellung notwendig. In dieser Arbeit wird der Teilchentransport mit Hilfe der Simulation von Testteilchen in einem turbulenten, magnetohydrodynamischen Plasma untersucht. Durch die Testteilchen werden auch die nichtlinearen Streuprozesse korrekt wiedergegeben, wodurch das erste hier genannte Hindernis überwunden wird. Dies wurde auch bereits in früheren numerischen Untersuchungen erfolgreich angewendet. Die Modellierung der Turbulenz für den Fall des Teilchentransports erfolgt in dieser Arbeit erstmalig auf Grundlage der magnetohydrodynamischen Gleichungen. Dabei handelt es sich um die mathematisch korrekte Wiedergabe der Magnetfeldturbulenz unterhalb der Ionen-Gyrofrequenz mit nur geringen numerischen Einschränkungen. Darüber hinaus erlaubt ein auf das physikalische Szenario anpassbarer Turbulenztreiber eine noch realistischere Simulation der Turbulenz. Durch diesen universell gültigen, numerischen Ansatz können für das zweite hier angegebene Hindernis jegliche künstlichen Annahmen vermieden werden. Die drei im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erstmals zusammengeführten Methoden (Testteilchen, magnetohydrodynamische Turbulenz, Turbulenztreiber) ermöglichen somit eine Untersuchung und Analyse von Transport- und Turbulenzphänomenen mit herausragender Qualität, die insbesondere für den Fall des Teilchentransports einen direkten Anschluss an experimentelle Ergebnisse ermöglichen. Wichtige Ergebnisse im Rahmen dieser Arbeit sind: - der Nachweis der Drei-Wellen-Wechselwirkung für schwache und einsetzende starke Turbulenz. - eine Analyse der Anisotropie der Turbulenz im Bezug auf das Hintergrundmagnetfeld in Abhängigkeit vom Treibmodell. Insbesondere die Anisotropie ist experimentell bislang kaum erfassbar. - eine Untersuchung der Auswirkung der Gyroresonanzen auf die Diffusionskoeffizienten hochenergetischer solarer Teilchen in allgemeiner Form. - die Simulation des Teilchentransports in der Heliosphäre auf Grundlage experimenteller Messdaten. Die genauere Analyse der Simulationsergebnisse ermöglicht insgesamt einen Zugang zum Verständnis des Transports, der durch experimentelle Untersuchungen nicht erfassbar ist. Bei der Simulation wurden lediglich die Magnetfeldstärke sowie die untersuchte Teilchenenergie vorgegeben. Aus der Analyse der Simulationsergebnisse ergibt sich dieselbe mittlere freie Weglänge, wie sie auch durch andere Verfahren direkt aus den Messergebnissen gewonnen werden konnte. Auch die vorwiegende Ausrichtung der hochenergetischen Teilchen parallel und antiparallel zum Hintergrundmagnetfeld in der Simulation entspricht experimentellen Untersuchungen. Es zeigt sich, dass diese allein aus den resonanten Streuprozessen der Teilchen mit den Magnetfeldern resultiert. Des Weiteren werden die Art der Diffusion, der Energieverlust der Teilchen während des Transportprozesses sowie die Gültigkeit der quasilinearen Theorie untersucht.
Over the past decades, noncommutative geometry has grown into an established field in pure mathematics and theoretical physics. The discovery that noncommutative geometry emerges as a limit of quantum gravity and string theory has provided strong motivations to search for physics beyond the standard model of particle physics and also beyond Einstein's theory of general relativity within the realm of noncommutative geometries. A very fruitful approach in the latter direction is due to Julius Wess and his group, which combines deformation quantization (star-products) with quantum group methods. The resulting gravity theory does not only include noncommutative effects of spacetime, but it is also invariant under a deformed Hopf algebra of diffeomorphisms, generalizing the principle of general covariance to the noncommutative setting. The purpose of the first part of this thesis is to understand symmetry reduction in noncommutative gravity, which then allows us to find exact solutions of the noncommutative Einstein equations. These are important investigations in order to capture the physical content of such theories and to make contact to applications in e.g. noncommutative cosmology and black hole physics. We propose an extension of the usual symmetry reduction procedure, which is frequently applied to the construction of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations, to noncommutative gravity and show that this leads to preferred choices of noncommutative deformations of a given symmetric system. We classify in the case of abelian Drinfel'd twists all consistent deformations of spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologies and of the Schwarzschild black hole. The deformed symmetry structure allows us to obtain exact solutions of the noncommutative Einstein equations in many of our models, for which the noncommutative metric field coincides with the classical one. In the second part we focus on quantum field theory on noncommutative curved spacetimes. We develop a new formalism by combining methods from the algebraic approach to quantum field theory with noncommutative differential geometry. The result is an algebra of observables for scalar quantum field theories on a large class of noncommutative curved spacetimes. A precise relation to the algebra of observables of the corresponding undeformed quantum field theory is established. We focus on explicit examples of deformed wave operators and find that there can be noncommutative corrections even on the level of free field theories, which is not the case in the simplest example of the Moyal-Weyl deformed Minkowski spacetime. The convergent deformation of simple toy-models is investigated and it is shown that these quantum field theories have many new features compared to formal deformation quantization. In addition to the expected nonlocality, we obtain that the relation between the deformed and the undeformed quantum field theory is affected in a nontrivial way, leading to an improved behavior of the noncommutative quantum field theory at short distances, i.e. in the ultraviolet. In the third part we develop elements of a more powerful, albeit more abstract, mathematical approach to noncommutative gravity. The goal is to better understand global aspects of homomorphisms between and connections on noncommutative vector bundles, which are fundamental objects in the mathematical description of noncommutative gravity. We prove that all homomorphisms and connections of the deformed theory can be obtained by applying a quantization isomorphism to undeformed homomorphisms and connections. The extension of homomorphisms and connections to tensor products of modules is clarified, and as a consequence we are able to add tensor fields of arbitrary type to the noncommutative gravity theory of Wess et al. As a nontrivial application of the new mathematical formalism we extend our studies of exact noncommutative gravity solutions to more general deformations.
The idea that our observable Universe may have originated from a quantum tunneling event out of an eternally inflating false vacuum state is a cornerstone of the multiverse paradigm. Modern theories that are considered as an approach towards the ultraviolet-complete fundamental theory of particles and gravity, such as the various types of string theory, even suggest that a vast landscape of different vacuum configurations exists, and that gravitational tunneling is an important mechanism with which the Universe can explore this landscape. The tunneling scenario also presents a unique framework to address the initial conditions of our observable Universe. In particular, it allows to introduce deviations from the cosmological concordance model in a controlled and well-motivated way. These deviations are a central topic of this work. An important feature in most of the theories mentioned above is the presumed existence of additional space dimensions in excess of the three which we observe in our every-day experience. It was realized that these extra dimensions could avoid our detection if they are compactified to microscopic length scales far beyond the reach of current experiments. There also seem to be natural mechanisms available for dynamical compactification in those theories. These typically lead to a vast landscape of different vacuum configurations which also may differ in the number of macroscopic dimensions, only the total number of dimensions being determined by the theory. Transitions between these vacuum configurations may hence open up new directions which were previously compact, spontaneously compactify some previously macroscopic directions, or otherwise re-arrange the configuration of compact and macroscopic dimensions in a more general way. From within the bubble Universe, such a process may be perceived as an anisotropic background spacetime - intuitively, the dimensions which open up may give rise to preferred directions. If our 3+1 dimensional observable Universe was born in a process as described above, one may expect to find traces of a preferred direction in cosmological observations. For instance, two directions could be curved like on a sphere, while the third space direction is flat. Using a scenario of gravitational tunneling to fix the initial conditions, I show how the primordial signatures in such an anisotropic Universe can be obtained in principle and work out a particular example in more detail. A small deviation from isotropy also has phenomenological consequences for the later evolution of the Universe. I discuss the most important effects and show that backreaction can be dynamically important. In particular, under certain conditions, a buildup of anisotropic stress in different components of the cosmic fluid can lead to a dynamical isotropization of the total stress-energy tensor. The mechanism is again demonstrated with the help of a physical example.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Chaossynchronisation in Netzwerken mit zeitverzögerten Kopplungen. Ein Netzwerk chaotischer Einheiten kann isochron und vollständig synchronisieren, auch wenn der Austausch der Signale einer oder mehreren Verzögerungszeiten unterliegt. In einem Netzwerk identischer Einheiten hat sich als Stabilitätsanalyse die Methode der Master Stability Funktion von Pecora und Carroll etabliert. Diese entspricht für ein Netzwerk gekoppelter iterativer Bernoulli-Abbildungen Polynomen vom Grade der größten Verzögerungszeit. Das Stabilitätsproblem reduziert sich somit auf die Untersuchung der Nullstellen dieser Polynome hinsichtlich ihrer Lage bezüglich des Einheitskreises. Eine solche Untersuchung kann beispielsweise numerisch mit dem Schur-Cohn-Theorem erfolgen, doch auch analytische Ergebnisse lassen sich erzielen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Bernoulli-Netzwerke mit einer oder mehreren zeitverzögerten Kopplungen und/oder Rückkopplungen untersucht. Hierbei werden Aussagen über Teile des Stabilitätsgebietes getroffen, welche unabhängig von den Verzögerungszeiten sind. Des Weiteren werden Aussagen zu Systemen gemacht, welche sehr große Verzögerungszeiten aufweisen. Insbesondere wird gezeigt, dass in einem Bernoulli-Netzwerk keine stabile Chaossynchronisation möglich ist, wenn die vorhandene Verzögerungszeit sehr viel größer ist als die Zeitskala der lokalen Dynamik, bzw. der Lyapunovzeit. Außerdem wird in bestimmten Systemen mit mehreren Verzögerungszeiten anhand von Symmetriebetrachtungen stabile Chaossynchronisation ausgeschlossen, wenn die Verzögerungszeiten in bestimmten Verhältnissen zueinander stehen. So ist in einem doppelt bidirektional gekoppeltem Paar ohne Rückkopplung und mit zwei verschiedenen Verzögerungszeiten stabile Chaossynchronisation nicht möglich, wenn die Verzögerungszeiten in einem Verhältnis von teilerfremden ungeraden ganzen Zahlen zueinander stehen. Es kann zudem Chaossynchronisation ausgeschlossen werden, wenn in einem bipartiten Netzwerk mit zwei großen Verzögerungszeiten zwischen diesen eine kleine Differenz herrscht. Schließlich wird ein selbstkonsistentes Argument vorgestellt, das das Auftreten von Chaossynchronisation durch die Mischung der Signale der einzelnen Einheiten interpretiert und sich unter anderem auf die Teilerfremdheit der Zyklen eines Netzes stützt. Abschließend wird untersucht, ob einige der durch die Bernoulli-Netzwerke gefundenen Ergebnisse sich auf andere chaotische Netzwerke übertragen lassen. Hervorzuheben ist die sehr gute Übereinstimmung der Ergebnisse eines Bernoulli-Netzwerkes mit den Ergebnissen eines gleichartigen Netzwerkes gekoppelter Halbleiterlasergleichungen, sowie die Übereinstimmungen mit experimentellen Ergebnissen eines Systems von Halbleiterlasern.
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Strahlungsprozessen in Blazaren. Bei den Blazaren handelt es sich um eine Unterkategorie der aktiven Galaxienkerne, bei denen die Jetachse in Richtung des Beobachters zeigt. Charakteristisch für die Blazare ist ein Multifrequenzspektrum der Photonen, welches sich vom Radiobereich bis hin zur Gamma-Strahlung mit TeV-Energien erstreckt. Insbesondere der Gamma-Bereich rückt aktuell in den Fokus der Betrachtung mit Experimenten wie zum Beispiel FERMI und MAGIC. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Modellierung der auftretenden Strahlungsprozesse und die Beschreibung der Multifrequenzspektren der Blazare mit Hilfe eines hadronisch-leptonischen Modells. Grundlage hierfür ist ein selbstkonsistentes Synchrotron-Selbst-Compton-Modell (SSC), welches zur Beschreibung des Spektrums der Quelle 1 ES 1218+30.4 verwendet wird. Dabei wird die Parameterwahl unterstützt durch eine Abschätzung der Masse des zentralen schwarzen Loches. Das hier behandelte SSC-Modell wird dahingehend untersucht, wie es sich unter Veränderung der Modellparameter verhält. Dabei werden Abhängigkeiten des Photonenspektrums von Änderungsfaktoren der Parameter abgeleitet. Außerdem werden diese Abhängigkeiten in Relation gesetzt und aus dieser Betrachtung ergibt sich die Schlussfolgerung, dass unter der Voraussetzung eines festen Spektralindex der Elektronenverteilung die Wahl eines Parametersatzes zur Modellierung eines Photonenspektrums eindeutig ist. Zur Einführung eines zeitabhängigen, hadronischen Modells wird das SSCModell um die Anwesenheit nichtthermischer Protonen erweitert. Dadurch kann Proton-Synchrotron-Strahlung einen Beitrag im Gamma-Bereich leisten. Außerdem werden durch Proton-Photon-Wechselwirkung Pionen erzeugt. Aus deren Zerfall werden zusammen mit der Paarbildung aus Photon-Photon-Absorption sekundäre Elektronen und Positronen produziert, die wiederum zum Hochenergiespektrum beitragen. Neben den Pionen werden bei der Proton-Photon- Wechselwirkung außerdem noch Neutrinos und Neutronen erzeugt, die einen direkten Einblick in die Emissionsregion erlauben. Das hier vorgestellte hadronische Modell wird auf die Quelle 3C 279 angewandt. Für diese Quelle reicht mit der Detektion im VHE-Bereich der SSCAnsatz nicht aus, um das Photonenspektrum zu beschreiben. Mit dem vorgelegten Modell gelingt die Beschreibung des Spektrums in den SSC-kritischen Bereichen sehr gut. Insbesondere können verschiedene Flusszustände modelliert und allein durch Veränderung der Maximalenergien von Protonen und Elektronen ineinander überführt werden. Diese einfache Möglichkeit der Modellierung der Variabilität der Quelle unterstreicht die Wahl des hadronischen Ansatzes. Somit wird hier ein sehr gutes Werkzeug zur Untersuchung der Emissionsprozesse in Blazaren geliefert. Darüber hinaus ist mit der Abschätzung des Neutrino-Flusses zwar die Detektion von 3C 279 als Punktquelle mit IceCube unwahrscheinlich, jedoch liefert das Modell generell die Möglichkeit im Kontext des Multimessenger-Ansatzes Antworten zu liefern. Im gleichen Kontext wird auch der Beitrag zur kosmischen Strahlung durch entweichende Neutronen untersucht.
We consider the prospects for a neutrino factory measuring mixing angles, the CP violating phase and mass-squared differences by detecting wrong-charge muons arising from the chain $\mu^+\to\nu_e\to\nu_\mu\to\mu^-$ and the right-charge muons coming from the chain $\mu^+\to\bar{\nu}_\mu\to\bar{\nu}_\mu\to\mu^+$ (similar to $\mu^-$ chains), where $\nu_e\to\nu_\mu$ and $\bar{\nu}_\mu\to\bar{\nu}_\mu$ are neutrino oscillation channels through a long baseline. First, we study physics with near detectors and consider the treatment of systematic errors including cross section errors, flux errors, and background uncertainties. We illustrate for which measurements near detectors are required, discuss how many are needed, and what the role of the flux monitoring is. We demonstrate that near detectors are mandatory for the leading atmospheric parameter measurements if the neutrino factory has only one baseline, whereas systematic errors partially cancel if the neutrino factory complex includes the magic baseline. Second, we perform the baseline and energy optimization of the neutrino factory including the latest simulation results from the magnetized iron neutrino detector (MIND). We also consider the impact of $\tau$ decays, generated by appearance channels $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_\tau$ and $\nu_e \rightarrow \nu_\tau$, on the discovery reaches of the mass orderings, the leptonic CP violation, and the non-zero $\theta_{13}$, which we find to be negligible for the considered detector. Third, we make a comparison of a high energy neutrino factory to a low energy neutrino factory and find that they are just two versions of the same experiment optimized for different regions of the parameter space. In addition, we briefly comment on whether it is useful to build the bi-magic baseline at the low energy neutrino factory. Finally, the effects of one additional massive sterile neutrino are discussed in the context of a combined short and long baseline setup. It is found that near detectors can provide the required sensitivity at the LSND-motivated $\Delta m_{41}^2$-range, while some sensitivity can also be obtained in the region of the atmospheric mass splitting introduced by the sterile neutrino from the long baselines.
At the present day the idea of cosmological inflation constitutes an important extension of Big Bang theory. Since its appearance in the early 1980’s many physical mechanisms have been worked out that put the inflationary expansion of space that proceeds the Hot Big Bang on a sound theoretical basis. Among the achievements of the theory of inflation are the explanaition of the almost Euclidean geometry of ‘visible’space, the homogeneity of the cosmic background radiation but, in particular, also the tiny inhomogeneity of a relative amplitude of 10−5. In many models of inflation the inflationary phase ends only locally. Hence, there exists the possibility that the inflationary process still goes on in regions beyond our visual horizon. This property is commonly termed ‘eternal inflation’. In the framework of a cosmological scalar fields, eternal inflation can manifest itself in a variety of ways. On the one hand fluctuations of the field, if sufficiently large, can work against the classical trajectory and therefore counteract the end of inflation. In regions where this is the case the accelerated expansion of space continues at a higher rate. In parts of this region the process may replicate itself again and in this way may continue throughout all of time. Space and field are said to reproduce themselves. On the other hand, a mechanism that can occur in addition or independent of the latter, is so called vacuum tunneling. If the potential of the scalar field has several local minima, a semi-classical calculation suggests that within a spherical region, a bubble, the field can tunnel to another state. The respective tunneling rates depend on the potential difference and the shape of the potential between the states. Generally, the tunneling rate is exponentially suppressed, which means that the inflation lasts for a long time before tunneling takes place. The ongoing inflationary process effectively reduces local curvature, anistotropy and inhomogeneity, so that this property is known as the ‘cosmic no-hair conjecture’. For this reason cosmological considerations of the evolution of bubbles thus far almost entirely involved vacuum (de Sitter) backgrounds. However, new insights in the framework of string theory suggest high tunneling rates which allow for the possibility of bubble nucleation in non-vacuum dominated backgrounds. In this case the evolution of the bubble depends on the properties of the background spacetime. A deeper introduction in chapter 4 is followed by the presentation of the Lemaître-Tolman spacetime in chapter 5 which constitutes the background spacetime in the study of the effect of matter and inhomogeneity on the evolution of vacuum bubbles. In chapter 6 we explicitly describe the application of the ‘thin-shell’ formalism and the resulting system of equations. This is succeeded in chapter 7 by the detailed analysis of bubble evolution in various limits of the Lemaître-Tolman spacetime and a Robertson-Walker spacetime with a rapid phase transition. The central observations are that the presence of dust, at a fixed surface energy density, goes along with a smaller nucleation volume and possibly leads to a a collapse of the bubble. In an expanding background, the radially inhomogeneous dust profile is efficiently diluted so that there is essentially no effect on the evolution of the domain wall. This changes in a radially inhomogeneous curvature profile, positive curvature decelerates the expansion of the bubble. Moreover, we point out that the adopted approach does not allow for a treatment of a, physically expected, matter transfer so that the results are to be understood as preliminary under this caveat. In the second part of this thesis we consider potential observable consequences of bubble collisions in the cosmic microwave background radiation. The topological nature of the signal suggests the use of statistics that are well suited to quantify the morphological properties of the temperature fluctuations. In chapter 10 we present Minkowski Functionals (MFs) that exactly provide such statistics. The presented error analysis allows for a higher precision of numerical MFs in comparison to earlier methods. In chapter 12 we present the application of our algorithm to a Gaussian and a collision map. We motivate the expected MFs and extract their numerical counterparts. We find that our least-squares fitting procedure accurately reproduces an underlying signal only when a large number of realizations of maps are averaged over, while for a single WMAP and PLANCK resolution map, only when a highly prominent disk, with |δT| = 2√σG and ϑd = 40◦, we are able to recover the result. This is unfortunate, as it means that MF are intrinsically too noisy to be able to distinguish cold and hot spots in the CMB for small sizes.
During the last decades the standard model of particle physics has evolved to one of the most precise theories in physics, describing the properties and interactions of fundamental particles in various experiments with a high accuracy. However it lacks on some shortcomings from experimental as well as from theoretical point of view: There is no approved mechanism for the generation of masses of the fundamental particles, in particular also not for the light, but massive neutrinos. In addition the standard model does not provide an explanation for the observance of dark matter in the universe. Moreover the gauge couplings of the three forces in the standard model do not unify, implying that a fundamental theory combining all forces can not be formulated. Within this thesis we address supersymmetric models as answers to these various questions, but instead of focusing on the most simple supersymmetrization of the standard model, we consider basic extensions, namely the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM), which contains an additional singlet field, and R-parity violating models. R-parity is a discrete symmetry introduced to guarantee the stability of the proton. Using lepton number violating terms in the context of bilinear R-parity violation and the munuSSM we are able to explain neutrino physics intrinsically supersymmetric, since those terms induce a mixing between the neutralinos and the neutrinos. Since 2009 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN explores the new energy regime of Tera-electronvolt, allowing the production of potentially existing heavy particles by the collision of protons. Thus the near future might provide answers to the open questions of mass generation in the standard model and show hints towards physics beyond the standard model. Therefore this thesis works out the phenomenology of the supersymmetric models under consideration and tries to point out differences to the well-known features of the simplest supersymmetric realization of the standard model. In case of the R-parity violating models the decays of the light neutralinos can result in displaced vertices. In combination with a light singlet state these displaced vertices might offer a rich phenomenology like non-standard Higgs decays into a pair of singlinos decaying with displaced vertices. Within this thesis we present some calculations at next order of perturbation theory, since one-loop corrections provide possibly large contributions to the tree-level masses and decay widths. We are using an on-shell renormalization scheme to calculate the masses of neutralinos and charginos including the neutrinos and leptons in case of the R-parity violating models at one-loop level. The discussion shows the similarities and differences to existing calculations in another renormalization scheme, namely the DRbar scheme. Moreover we consider two-body decays of the form chi_j^0 -> chi_l^\pm W^\mp involving a heavy gauge boson in the final state at one-loop level. Corrections are found to be large in case of small or vanishing tree-level decay widths and also for the R-parity violating decay of the lightest neutralino chi_1^0 -> l^\pm W^\mp. An interesting feature of the models based on bilinear R-parity violation is the correlation between the branching ratios of the lightest neutralino decays and the neutrino mixing angles. We discuss these relations at tree-level and for two-body decays chi_1^0 -> l^\pm W^\mp also at one-loop level, since only the full one-loop corrections result in the tree-level expected behavior. The appendix describes the two programs MaCoR and CNNDecays being developed for the analysis carried out in this thesis. MaCoR allows for the calculation of mass matrices and couplings in the models under consideration and CNNDecays is used for the one-loop calculations of neutralino and chargino mass matrices and the two-body decay widths.
Indirect Search for Dark Matter in the Universe - the Multiwavelength and Multiobject Approach
(2011)
Cold dark matter constitutes a basic tenet of modern cosmology, essential for our understanding of structure formation in the Universe. Since its first discovery by means of spectroscopic observations of the dynamics of the Coma cluster some 80 years ago, mounting evidence of its gravitational pull and its impact on the geometry of space-time has build up across a wide range of scales, from galaxies to the entire Hubble flow. The apparent lack of electromagnetic coupling and independent measurements of the energy density of baryonic matter from the primordial abundances of light elements show the non-baryonic nature of dark matter, and its clustering properties prove that it is cold, i.e. that it has a temperature lower than its mass during the time of radiation-matter equality. A generic particle candidate for cold dark matter are weakly interacting massive particles at the electroweak symmetry-breaking scale, such as the neutralinos in R-parity conserving supersymmetry. Such particles would naturally freeze-out with a cosmologically relevant relic density at early times in the expanding Universe. Subsequent clustering of matter would recover annihilation interactions between the dark matter particles to some extent and thus lead to potentially observable high-energy emission from the decaying unstable secondaries produced in annihilation events. The spectra of the secondaries would permit a determination of the mass and annihilation cross section, which are crucial for the microphysical identification of the dark matter. This the central motivation for indirect dark matter searches. However, presently neither the indirect searches, nor the complementary direct searches based on the detection of elastic scattering events, nor the production of candidate particles in collider experiments, has yet provided unequivocal evidence for dark matter. This does not come as a surprise, since the dark matter particles interact only through weak interactions and therefore the corresponding secondary emission must be extremely faint. It turns out that even for the strongest mass concentrations in the Universe, the dark matter annihilation signal is expected to not exceed the level of competing astrophysical sources. Thus, the discrimination of the putative dark matter annihilation signal from the signals of the astrophysical inventory has become crucial for indirect search strategies. In this thesis, a novel search strategy will be developed and exemplified in which target selection across a wide range of masses, astrophysical background estimation, and multiwavelength signatures play the key role. It turns out that the uncertainties regarding the halo profile and the boost due to surviving substructure are bigger for halos at the lower end of the observed mass scales, i.e. in the regime of dwarf galaxies and below, while astrophysical backgrounds tend to become more severe for massive dark matter halos such as clusters of galaxies. By contrast, the uncertainties due to unknown details of particle physics are invariant under changes of the halo mass. Therefore, the different scaling behaviors can be employed to significantly cut down on the uncertainties in observations of different targets covering a major part of the involved mass scales. This strategical approach was implemented in the scientific program carried out with the MAGIC telescope system. Observations of dwarf galaxies and the Virgo- and Perseus clusters of galaxies have been carried out and, at the time of writing, result in some of the most stringent constraints on weakly interacting massive particles from indirect searches. Here, the low-threshold design of the MAGIC telescope system plays a crucial role, since the bulk of the high-energy photons, produced with a high multiplicity during the fragmentation of unstable dark matter annihilation products, are emitted at energies well below the dark matter mass scale. The upper limits severely constrain less generic, but more prolific scenarios characterized by extraordinarily high annihilation efficiencies.
Die Emission solarer Typ II Radiobursts ist ein seit Jahrzehnten beobachtetes Phänomen der heliosphärischen Plasmaphysik. Diese Radiobursts, die im Zusammenhang mit der Propagation koronaler Schockfronten auftreten, zeigen ein charakteristisches, zweibandiges Emissionsspektrum. Mit expandierendem Schock driften sie zu niedrigeren Frequenzen. Analytische Theorien dieser Emission sagen nichtlineare Plasmawellenwechselwirkung als Ursache voraus, doch aufgrund des geringen Sonnenabstands der Emissionsregion ist die in-situ Datenlage durch Satellitenmessungen äusserst schlecht, so dass eine endgültige Verifikation der vorhergesagten Vorgänge bisher nicht möglich war. Mit Hilfe eines kinetischen Plasma-Simulationscodes nach dem Particle-in-Cell Prinzip wurde in dieser Dissertation die Plasmaumgebung in der Foreshock-Region einer koronalen Schockfront modelliert. Das Propagations- und Kopplungsverhalten elektrostatischer und elektromagnetischer Wellenmoden wurde untersucht. Die vollständige räumliche Information über die Wellenzusammensetzung in der Simulation erlaubt es, die Kinematik nichtlinearer Wellenkopplungen genauestens zu untersuchen. Es zeigte sich ein mit der analytischen Theorie der Drei-Wellen-Wechselwirkung konsistentes Bild der Erzeugung solarer Radiobursts: durch elektromagnetischen Zerfall elektrostatischer Moden kommt es zur Erzeugung fundamentaler, sowie durch Verschmelzung gegenpropagierender elektrostatischer Moden zur Anregung harmonischer Radioemission. Kopplungsstärken und Winkelabhängigkeit dieser Prozesse wurden untersucht. Mit dem somit zur Verfügung stehenden, numerischen Laborsystem wurde die Parameter-Abhängigkeit der Wellenkopplungen und entstehenden Radioemissionen bezüglich Stärke des Elektronenbeams und des solaren Abstandes untersucht.
Die Herkunft hochenergetischer solarer Teilchen konnte in den vergangenen Jahren eindeutig auf Schockbeschleunigung an koronalen Masseauswürfen zurückgeführt werden. Durch resonante Interaktionen zwischen Wellen und Teilchen werden zum einen geladene Teilchen unter Veränderung ihrer Energie gestreut, zum anderen wird die Dynamik der Plasmawellen in solchen Beschleunigungsregionen durch diese Prozesse von selbstgenerierten Wellenmoden maßgeblich beeinflusst. Mittels numerischer Modellierungen wurden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die grundlegenden physikalischen Regimes der Turbulenz und des Teilchentransports beschrieben. Die Simulation der Plasmadynamik bedient sich der Methodik der Magnetohydrodynamik, wohingegen kinetische Einzelteilchen durch die elementaren Bewegungsgleichungen der Elektrodynamik berechnet werden. Es konnten die Turbulenztheorien von Goldreich und Sridhar unter heliosphärischen Bedingungen bei drei solaren Radien bestätigt werden. Vor allem zeigten sich Hinweise für das Erreichen der kritischen Balance, einem Schlüsselparameter dieser Theorien. Weiterhin werden Ergebnisse der dynamischen Entwicklung angeregter Wellenmoden präsentiert, in denen die Bedeutsamkeit für die gesamte Turbulenz gezeigt werden konnte. Als zentraler Prozess bei hohen Energien hat sich das wave-steepening herausgestellt, das als effizienter Energietransportmechanismus in paralleler Richtung zum Hintergrundmagnetfeld identifiziert wurde und somit turbulente Strukturen bei hohen parallelen Wellenzahlen erklärt, deren Entstehung das Goldreich-Sridhar Modell nicht beschreiben kann. Darüber hinaus wurden grundlegende Erkenntnisse über die quasilineare Theorie des Teilchentransports erzielt. Im Speziellen konnte ein tieferes Verständnis für die Interpretation der Diffusionskoeffizienten von Welle-Teilchen Wechselwirkungen erlangt werden. Simulationen zur Streuung an angeregten Wellenmoden zeigten erstmals komplexe resonante Strukturen die im Rahmen analytischer Modelle nicht mehr adäquat beschrieben werden können.
The celebrated AdS/CFT dualities provide a window to strongly-coupled quantum field theories (QFTs), which are realized in nature at the most fundamental level on the one hand, but are hardly accessible for the standard mathematical tools on the other hand. The prototype examples of AdS/CFT relate classical supergravity theories on (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS) to strongly-coupled d-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). The AdS spacetimes admit a timelike conformal boundary, on which the dual CFT is defined. In that sense the AdS/CFT dualities are holographic, and this new approach has led to remarkable progress in understanding strongly-coupled QFTs defined on Minkowski space and on the Einstein cylinder. On the other hand, the study of QFT on more generic curved spacetimes is of fundamental interest and non-trivial already for free theories. Moreover, understanding the properties of gravity as a quantum theory remains among the hardest problems to solve in physics. Both of these issues can be studied holographically and we investigate here generalizations of AdS/CFT involving on the lower-dimensional side QFTs on curved backgrounds and as a further generalization gravity. In the first part we expand on the holographic description of QFT on fixed curved backgrounds, which involves gravity on an asymptotically-AdS space with that prescribed boundary structure. We discuss geometries with de Sitter and AdS as conformal boundary to holographically describe CFTs on these spacetimes. After setting up the procedure of holographic renormalization we study the reflection of CFT unitarity properties in the dual bulk description. The geometry with AdS on the boundary exhibits a number of interesting features, mainly due to the fact that the boundary itself has a boundary. We study both cases and resolve potential tensions between the unitarity properties of the bulk and boundary theories, which would be incompatible with a duality. The origin of these tensions is partly in the structure of the geometry with AdS conformal boundary, while another one arises for a particular limiting case where the bulk and boundary descriptions naively disagree. Besides technical challenges, the hierarchy of boundaries for the geometry with AdS conformal boundary offers an interesting option. Namely, having the dual theory on the conformal boundary itself defined on an AdS space offers the logical possibility of implementing a second instance of AdS/CFT. We discuss an appropriate geometric setting allowing for the notion of the boundary of a boundary and identify limitations for such multi-layered dualities. In the second part we consider five-dimensional supergravities whose solutions can be lifted to actual string-theory backgrounds. We work out the asymptotic structure of the theories on asymptotically-AdS spaces and calculate the Weyl anomaly of the dual CFTs. These holographic calculations confirm the expectations from the field-theory side and provide a non-trivial test of the AdS/CFT conjecture. Moreover, building on the previous results we show that in addition to the usual Dirichlet also more general boundary conditions can be imposed. That allows to promote the boundary metric to a dynamical quantity and is expected to yield a holographic description for a conformal supergravity on the boundary. The boundary theory obtained this way exhibits pathologies such as perturbative ghosts, which is in fact expected for a conformal gravity. The fate of these ghosts beyond perturbation theory is an open question and our setting provides a starting point to study it from the string-theory perspective. That discussion leads to a regime where the holographic description of the boundary theory requires quantization of the bulk supergravity. A necessary ingredient of any supergravity is a number of gravitinos as superpartners of the graviton, for which we thus need an effective-QFT description to make sense of AdS/CFT beyond the limit where bulk theory becomes classical. In particular, quantization should be possible not only on rigid AdS, but also on generic asymptotically-AdS spacetimes which may not be Einstein. In the third part we study the quantization and causality properties of the gravitino on Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes to explicitly show that a consistent quantization can be carried out also on non-Einstein spaces, in contrast to claims in the recent literature. Furthermore, this reveals interesting non-standard effects for the gravitino propagation, which in certain cases is restricted to regions more narrow than the expected light cones.
In this thesis, the electronic transport properties of mesoscopic condensed matter systems based on graphene are investigated by means of numerical as well as analytical methods. In particular, it is analyzed how the concepts of quantum interference and disorder, which are essential to mesoscopic devices in general, are affected by the unique electronic and transport properties of the graphene material system. We consider the famous Aharonov–Bohm effect in ring-shaped transport geometries, and, besides providing an overview over the recent developments on the subject, we study the signatures of fundamental phenomena such as Klein tunneling and specular Andreev reflection, which are specific to graphene, in the magnetoconductance oscillations. To this end, we introduce and utilize a variant of the well-known recursive Green’s function technique, which is an efficient numerical method for the calculation of transport observables in effectively non-interacting open quantum systems in the framework of a tight binding model. This technique is also applied to study the effects of a specific kind of disorder, namely short-range resonant scatterers, such as strongly bound adatoms or molecules, that can be modeled as vacancies in the graphene lattice. This numerical analysis of the conductance in the presence of resonant scatterers in graphene leads to a non-trivial classification of impurity sites in the graphene lattice and is further substantiated by an independent analytical treatment in the framework of the Dirac equation. The present thesis further contains a formal introduction to the topic of non-equilibrium quantum transport as appropriate for the development of the numerical technique mentioned above, a general introduction to the physics of graphene with a focus on the particular phenomena investigated in this work, and a conclusion where the obtained results are summarized and open questions as well as potential future developments are highlighted.
In memoriam Karl Kraus
(2012)
A general theory for all classes of unconventional superconductors is still one of the unsolved key issues in condensed-matter physics. Actually, it is not yet fully settled if there is a common underlying pairing mechanism. Instead, it might be possible that several distinct sources for unconventional (not phonon-mediated) superconductivity have to be considered, or an electron-phonon interaction is not negligible. The focus of this thesis is on the most probable mechanism for the formation of Cooper pairs in unconventional superconductors, namely a strictly electronic one where spin fluctuations are the mediators. Studying different superconductors in this thesis, the emphasis is put on material-independent features of the pairing mechanism. In addition, the investigation of the phase diagrams enables a view on the vicinity of superconductivity. Thus, it is possible to clarify which competing quantum fluctuations enhance or weaken the propensity for a superconducting state. The broad range of superconducting materials requires the use of more than one numerical technique to study an appropriate microscopic description. This is not a problem but a big advantage because this facilitates the approach-independent description of common underlying physics. For this evaluation, the strongly correlated cuprates are simulated with the variational cluster approach. Especially the question of a pairing glue is taken into consideration. Furthermore, it is possible to distinguish between retarded and non-retarded contributions to the gap function. The cuprates are confronted with the cobaltate NaCoO and graphene. These weakly correlated materials are investigated with the functional renormalization group (fRG) and reveal a comprehensive phase diagram, including a d+id-wave superconductivity, which breaks time-reversal symmetry. The corresponding gap function is nodeless, but for NaCoO, it features a doping-dependent anisotropy. In addition, some general considerations on the kagome lattice are completing the discussion, where a sublattice interference dramatically affects the Fermi-surface instabilities, suppressing the usual spin-density wave and d+id-wave superconductivity. Thereby, some different fascinating charge and bond orders as well as a nematic are observable. In short, this thesis provides an insight to distinct classes of unconventional superconductors with appropriate simulation techniques. This facilitates to separate the material specific properties from the universal ones.
In this PhD thesis, the fingerprints of geometry and topology on low dimensional mesoscopic systems are investigated. In particular, holographic non-equilibrium transport properties of the quantum spin Hall phase, a two dimensional time reversal symmetric bulk insulating phase featuring one dimensional gapless helical edge modes are studied. In these metallic helical edge states, the spin and the direction of motion of the charge carriers are locked to each other and counter-propagating states at the same energy are conjugated by time reversal symmetry. This phenomenology entails a so called topological protection against elastic single particle backscattering by time reversal symmetry. We investigate the limitations of this topological protection by studying the influence of inelastic processes as induced by the interplay of phonons and extrinsic spin orbit interaction and by taking into account multi electron processes due to electron-electron interaction, respectively. Furthermore, we propose possible spintronics applications that rely on a spin charge duality that is uniquely associated with the quantum spin Hall phase. This duality is present in the composite system of two helical edge states with opposite helicity as realized on the two opposite edges of a quantum spin Hall sample with ribbon geometry. More conceptually speaking, the quantum spin Hall phase is the first experimentally realized example of a symmetry protected topological state of matter, a non-interacting insulating band structure which preserves an anti-unitary symmetry and is topologically distinct from a trivial insulator in the same symmetry class with totally localized and hence independent atomic orbitals. In the first part of this thesis, the reader is provided with a fairly self-contained introduction into the theoretical concepts underlying the timely research field of topological states of matter. In this context, the topological invariants characterizing these novel states are viewed as global analogues of the geometric phase associated with a cyclic adiabatic evolution. Whereas the detailed discussion of the topological invariants is necessary to gain deeper insight into the nature of the quantum spin Hall effect and related physical phenomena, the non-Abelian version of the local geometric phase is employed in a proposal for holonomic quantum computing with spin qubits in quantum dots.
We review the particle physics ingredients affecting the normalization, shape, and flavor composition of astrophysical neutrinos fluxes, such as different production modes, magnetic field effects on the secondaries muons, pions, and kaons, and flavor mixing, where we focus on p? interactions. We also discuss the interplay with neutrino propagation and detection, including the possibility to detect flavor and its application in particle physics, and the use of the Glashow resonance to discriminate p? from pp interactions in the source. We illustrate the implications on fluxes and flavor composition with two different models: 1 the target photon spectrum is dominated by synchrotron emission of coaccelerated electrons and 2 the target photon spectrum follows the observed photon spectrum of gamma-ray bursts. In the latter case, the multimessenger extrapolation from the gamma-ray fluence to the expected neutrino flux is highlighted.
This thesis deals with nanoelectromechanical systems in the quantum regime. Nanoelectromechanical systems are systems where a mechanical degree of freedom of rather macroscopic size is coupled to an electronic degree of freedom. The mechanical degree of freedom can without any constraints be modeled as the fundamental mode of a harmonic oscillator. Due to their size and the energy scales involved in the setting, quantum mechanics plays an important role in their description. We investigate transport through such nanomechanical devices where our focus lies on the quantum regime. We use non-equilibrium methods to fully cover quantum effects in setups where the mechanical oscillator is part of a tunnel junction. In such setups, the mechanical motion influences the tunneling amplitude and thereby the transport properties through the device. The electronics in these setups can then be used to probe and characterize the mechanical oscillator through signatures in transport quantities such as the average current or the current noise. The interplay between the mechanical motion and other physical degrees of freedom can also be used to characterize these other degrees of freedom, i.e., the nanomechanical oscillator can be used as a detector. In this thesis, we will show that a nanomechanical oscillator can be used as a detector for rather exotic degrees of freedom, namely Majorana bound states which recently attracted great interest, theoretically as well as experimentally. Again, the quantum regime plays an essential role in this topic. One of the major manifestations of quantum mechanics is entanglement between two quantum systems. Entanglement of quantum systems with few (discrete) degrees of freedom is a well established and understood subject experimentally as well as theoretically. Here, we investigate quantum entanglement between two macroscopic continuous variable systems. We study different setups where it is possible to entangle two nanomechanical oscillators which are not directly coupled to each other. We conclude with reviewing the obtained results and discuss open questions and possible future developments on the quantum aspects of nanomechanical systems.
This thesis presents results covering several topics in correlated many fermion systems. A Monte Carlo technique (CT-INT) that has been implemented, used and extended by the author is discussed in great detail in chapter 3. The following chapter discusses how CT-INT can be used to calculate the two particle Green’s function and explains how exact frequency summations can be obtained. A benchmark against exact diagonalization is presented. The link to the dynamical cluster approximation is made in the end of chapter 4, where these techniques are of immense importance. In chapter 5 an extensive CT-INT study of a strongly correlated Josephson junction is shown. In particular, the signature of the first order quantum phase transition between a Kondo and a local moment regime in the Josephson current is discussed. The connection to an experimental system is made with great care by developing a parameter extraction strategy. As a final result, we show that it is possible to reproduce experimental data from a numerically exact CT-INT model-calculation. The last topic is a study of graphene edge magnetism. We introduce a general effective model for the edge states, incorporating a complicated interaction Hamiltonian and perform an exact diagonalization study for different parameter regimes. This yields a strong argument for the importance of forbidden umklapp processes and of the strongly momentum dependent interaction vertex for the formation of edge magnetism. Additional fragments concerning the use of a Legendre polynomial basis for the representation of the two particle Green’s function, the analytic continuation of the self energy for the Anderson Kane Mele Model, as well as the generation of test data with a given covariance matrix are documented in the appendix. A final appendix provides some very important matrix identities that are used for the discussion of technical details of CT-INT.
Intact Dirac Cones at Broken Sublattice Symmetry: Photoemission Study of Graphene on Ni and Co
(2012)
The appearance of massless Dirac fermions in graphene requires two equivalent carbon sublattices of trigonal shape. While the generation of an effective mass and a band gap at the Dirac point remains an unresolved problem for freestanding extended graphene, it is well established by breaking translational symmetry by confinement and by breaking sublattice symmetry by interaction with a substrate. One of the strongest sublattice-symmetry-breaking interactions with predicted and measured band gaps ranging from 400 meV to more than 3 eV has been attributed to the interfaces of graphene with Ni and Co, which are also promising spin-filter interfaces. Here, we apply angle-resolved photoemission to epitaxial graphene on Ni (111) and Co(0001) to show the presence of intact Dirac cones 2.8 eV below the Fermi level. Our results challenge the common belief that the breaking of sublattice symmetry by a substrate and the opening of the band gap at the Dirac energy are in a straightforward relation. A simple effective model of a biased bilayer structure composed of graphene and a sublattice-symmetry-broken layer, corroborated by density-functional-theory calculations, demonstrates the general validity of our conclusions.
We perform global fits to the parameters of the Constrained Minimal Super-symmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) and to a variant with non-universal Higgs masses (NUHM1). In addition to constraints from low-energy precision observables and the cosmological dark matter density, we take into account the LHC exclusions from searches in jets plus missing transverse energy signatures with about 5 fb\(^{−1}\) of integrated luminosity. We also include the most recent upper bound on the branching ratio B\(_s\) → μμ from LHCb. Furthermore, constraints from and implications for direct and indirect dark matter searches are discussed. The best fit of the CMSSM prefers a light Higgs boson just above the experimentally excluded mass. We find that the description of the low-energy observables, (g − 2)\(_μ\) in particular, and the non-observation of SUSY at the LHC become more and more incompatible within the CMSSM. A potential SM-like Higgs boson with mass around 126 GeV can barely be accommodated. Values for B(B\(_s\)→μμ) just around the Standard Model prediction are naturally expected in the best fit region. The most-preferred region is not yet affected by limits on direct WIMP searches, but the next generation of experiments will probe this region. Finally, we discuss implications from fine-tuning for the best fit regions.
For many practical purposes, it is convenient to formulate unbroken non-abelian gauge theories like QCD in a color-flow basis. We present a new derivation of SU(N) interactions in the color-flow basis by extending the gauge group to U(N) × U(1)′ in such a way that the two U(1) factors cancel each other. We use the quantum action principles to show the equivalence to the usual basis to all orders in perturbation theory. We extend the known Feynman rules to exotic color representations (e.g. sextets) and discuss practical applications as they occur in automatic computation programs.
We present the complete threshold enhanced predictions in QCD for the total cross section of gluino pair production at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order. Thanks to the computation of the required one-loop hard matching coefficients our results are accurate to the next-to-next-to-leading logarithm. In a brief phenomenological study we provide predictions for the total hadronic cross sections at the LHC and we discuss the uncertainties arising from scale variations and the parton distribution functions.
Multi-Wavelength Observations of the high-peaked BL Lacertae objects 1ES 1011+496 and 1ES 2344+514
(2012)
BL Lacertae objects belong to the most luminous sources in the Universe. They represent a subclass of active galactic nuclei with a spectrum that is dominated by non-thermal emission, extending from radio wavelengths to tera electronvolt (TeV) energies. The emission is strongly variable on time scales of years down to minutes, and arises from relativistic jets pointing at small angles to the line of sight of the observer, which is the reason for naming them “blazars”. Blazars are the dominant extragalactic source class in the radio, microwave and gamma-ray regime, are prime candidates for the origin of the Cosmic Rays and excellent laboratories to study black hole and jet physics as well as relativistic effects. Despite more than 20 years of observational efforts, the physical mechanisms driving their emission are not yet fully understood. So far, studies of their broad-band continuum emission were mostly concentrated on bright, flaring states. However, for a better understanding of the central engine powering the jets, the bias from flux-limited observations of the past must be overcome and their long-term average continuum spectral energy distributions (SEDs) must be determined. This work presents the first simultaneous multi-wavelength campaigns from the radio to the TeV regime of two high-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects known to emit at TeV energies. The first source, 1ES 1011+496, was observed between February and May 2008, the second one, 1ES 2344+514, between September 2008 and February 2009. The extensive observational campaigns were organised independently from an external trigger for the presence of a flaring state. Since the duty cycle of major flux outbursts is known to be rather low, the campaigns were expected to yield SEDs representative of the long-term average emission. Central for this thesis is the analysis of data obtained with the MAGIC Cherenkov telescope, measuring energy spectra and light curves from ~0.1 to ~10 TeV. For the remaining instruments, observation time was proposed and additional data was organised by collaboration with the instrument teams by the author of this work. Such data was obtained mostly in a fully reduced state. Individual light curves are investigated as well as combined in a search for inter-band correlations. The data of both sources reveal a notable lack of a correlation between the emission at radio and optical wavelengths, indicating that the radio and short-wavelength emission arise in different regions of the jet. Quasi-simultaneous SEDs of two different flux states are observationally determined and described by a one-zone as well as a self-consistent two-zone synchrotron self-Compton model. First approaches to model the SEDs by means of a Chi2 minimisation technique are briefly discussed. The SEDs and the resulting model parameters, characterising the physical conditions in the emission regions, are compared to archival data. Though the models can describe the data well, for 1ES 1011+496 the model parameters indicate that in addition to the synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission of relativistic electrons, emission due to accelerated protons seems to be required. The SEDs of 1ES 2344+514 reveal one of the lowest activity states ever detected from the source. Despite that, the model parameters are not indicative of a distinct quiescent state, which may be caused by the degeneracy of the different parameters in one-zone models. Moreover, indications accumulate that the radiation can not be attributed to a single emission region. The results disfavour some of the current blazar classification schemes and the so-called “blazar sequence”, emphasising the need for a more realistic explanation of the systematics of the blazar SEDs in terms of fundamental parameters.
This thesis deals with the chaotic dynamics of nonlinear networks consisting of semiconductor lasers which have time-delayed self-feedbacks or mutual couplings. These semiconductor lasers are simulated numerically by the Lang-Kobayashi equations. The central issue is how the chaoticity of the lasers, measured by the maximal Lyapunov exponent, changes when the delay time is changed. It is analysed how this change of chaoticity with increasing delay time depends on the reflectivity of the mirror for the self-feedback or the strength of the mutal coupling, respectively. The consequences of the different types of chaos for the effect of chaos synchronization of mutually coupled semiconductor lasers are deduced and discussed. At the beginning of this thesis, the master stability formalism for the stability analysis of nonlinear networks with delay is explained. After the description of the Lang-Kobayashi equations and their linearizations as a model for the numerical simulation of semiconductor lasers with time-delayed couplings, the artificial sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0}$ is introduced. It is explained how the sign of the sub-Lyapunov exponent can be determined by experiments. The notions of "strong chaos" and "weak chaos" are introduced and distinguished by their different scaling properties of the maximal Lyapunov exponent with the delay time. The sign of the sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0}$ is shown to determine the occurence of strong or weak chaos. The transition sequence "weak to strong chaos and back to weak chaos" upon monotonically increasing the coupling strength $\sigma$ of a single laser's self-feedback is shown for numerical calculations of the Lang-Kobayashi equations. At the transition between strong and weak chaos, the sub-Lyapunov exponent vanishes, $\lambda_{0}=0$, resulting in a special scaling behaviour of the maximal Lyapunov exponent with the delay time. Transitions between strong and weak chaos by changing $\sigma$ can also be found for the Rössler and Lorenz dynamics. The connection between the sub-Lyapunov exponent and the time-dependent eigenvalues of the Jacobian for the internal laser dynamics is analysed. Counterintuitively, the difference between strong and weak chaos is not directly visible from the trajectory although the difference of the trajectories induces the transitions between the two types of chaos. In addition, it is shown that a linear measure like the auto-correlation function cannot unambiguously reveal the difference between strong and weak chaos either. Although the auto-correlations after one delay time are significantly higher for weak chaos than for strong chaos, it is not possible to detect a qualitative difference. If two time-scale separated self-feedbacks are present, the shorter feedback has to be taken into account for the definition of a new sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0,s}$, which in this case determines the occurence of strong or weak chaos. If the two self-feedbacks have comparable delay times, the sub-Lyapunov exponent $\lambda_{0}$ remains the criterion for strong or weak chaos. It is shown that the sub-Lyapunov exponent scales with the square root of the effective pump current $\sqrt{p-1}$, both in its magnitude and in the position of the critical coupling strengths. For networks with several distinct sub-Lyapunov exponents, it is shown that the maximal sub-Lyapunov exponent of the network determines whether the network's maximal Lyapunov exponent scales strongly or weakly with increasing delay time. As a consequence, complete synchronization of a network is excluded for arbitrary networks which contain at least one strongly chaotic laser. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the sub-Lyapunov exponent of a driven laser depends on the number of the incoherently superimposed inputs from unsynchronized input lasers. For networks of delay-coupled lasers operating in weak chaos, the condition $|\gamma_{2}|<\mathrm{e}^{-\lambda_{\mathrm{m}}\,\tau}$ for stable chaos synchronization is deduced using the master stability formalism. Hence, synchronization of any network depends only on the properties of a single laser with self-feedback and the eigenvalue gap of the coupling matrix. The characteristics of the master stability function for the Lang-Kobayashi dynamics is described, and consequently, the master stability function is refined to allow for precise practical prediction of synchronization. The prediction of synchronization with the master stability function is demonstrated for bidirectional and unidirectional networks. Furthermore, the master stability function is extended for two distinct delay times. Finally, symmetries and resonances for certain values of the ratio of the delay times are shown for the master stability function of the Lang-Kobyashi equations.
The superconducting properties of complex materials like the recently discovered iron-pnictides or strontium-ruthenate are often governed by multi-orbital effects. In order to unravel the superconductivity of those materials, we develop a multi-orbital implementation of the functional renormalization group and study the pairing states of several characteristic material systems. Starting with the iron-pnictides, we find competing spin-fluctuation channels that become attractive if the superconducting gap changes sign between the nested portions of the Fermi surface. Depending on material details like doping or pnictogen height, these spin fluctuations then give rise to $s_{\pm}$-wave pairing with or without gap nodes and, in some cases, also change the symmetry to $d$-wave. Near the transition from nodal $s_{\pm}$-wave to $d$-wave pairing, we predict the occurrence of a time-reversal symmetry-broken $(s+id)$-pairing state which avoids gap nodes and is therefore energetically favored. We further study the electronic instabilities of doped graphene, another fascinating material which has recently become accessible and which can effectively be regarded as multi-orbital system. Here, the hexagonal lattice structure assures the degeneracy of two $d$-wave pairing channels, and the system then realizes a chiral $(d+id)$-pairing state in a wide doping range around van-Hove filling. In addition, we also find spin-triplet pairing as well as an exotic spin-density wave phase which both become leading if the long-ranged hopping or interaction parameters are slightly modified, for example, by choosing different substrate materials. Finally, we consider the superconducting state of strontium-ruthenate, a possible candidate for chiral spin-triplet pairing with fascinating properties like the existence of half-quantum vortices obeying non-Abelian statistics. Using a microscopic three orbital description including spin-orbit coupling, we demonstrate that ferromagnetic fluctuations are still sufficient to induce this $\bs{\hat{z}}(p_x\pm ip_y)$-pairing state. The resulting superconducting gap reveals strong anisotropies on the $d_{xy}$-dominated Fermi-surface pocket and nearly vanishes on the other remaining two pockets.
Interplanetary shocks are believed to play an important role in the acceleration of charged particles in the heliosphere. While the acceleration to high energies proceeds via the diffusive mechanism at the scales exceeding by far the shock width, the initial stage (injection) should occur at the shock itself. Numerical tracing of ions is done in a model quasi-perpendicular shock front with a typical interplanetary shock parameters (Mach number, upstream ion temperature). The analysis of the distribution of the transmitted solar wind is used to adjust the cross-shock potential which is not directly measured. It is found that, for typical upstream ion temperatures, acceleration of the ions from the tail of the solar wind distribution is unlikely. Pickup ions with a shell distribution are found to be effectively energized and may be injected into further diffusive acceleration regime. Pre-accelerated ions are efficiently upscaled in energies. A part of these ions is returned to the upstream region where they can further be diffusively accelerated.
SEPServer is a three-year collaborative project funded by the seventh framework programme (FP7-SPACE) of the European Union. The objective of the project is to provide access to state-of-the-art observations and analysis tools for the scientific community on solar energetic particle (SEP) events and related electromagnetic (EM) emissions. The project will eventually lead to better understanding of the particle acceleration and transport processes at the Sun and in the inner heliosphere. These processes lead to SEP events that form one of the key elements of space weather. In this paper we present the first results from the systematic analysis work performed on the following datasets: SOHO/ERNE, SOHO/EPHIN, ACE/EPAM, Wind/WAVES and GOES X-rays. A catalogue of SEP events at 1 AU, with complete coverage over solar cycle 23, based on high-energy (similar to 68-MeV) protons from SOHO/ERNE and electron recordings of the events by SOHO/EPHIN and ACE/EPAM are presented. A total of 115 energetic particle events have been identified and analysed using velocity dispersion analysis (VDA) for protons and time-shifting analysis (TSA) for electrons and protons in order to infer the SEP release times at the Sun. EM observations during the times of the SEP event onset have been gathered and compared to the release time estimates of particles. Data from those events that occurred during the European day-time, i.e., those that also have observations from ground-based observatories included in SEPServer, are listed and a preliminary analysis of their associations is presented. We find that VDA results for protons can be a useful tool for the analysis of proton release times, but if the derived proton path length is out of a range of 1 AU < s less than or similar to 3 AU, the result of the analysis may be compromised, as indicated by the anti-correlation of the derived path length and release time delay from the associated X-ray flare. The average path length derived from VDA is about 1.9 times the nominal length of the spiral magnetic field line. This implies that the path length of first-arriving MeV to deka-MeV protons is affected by interplanetary scattering. TSA of near-relativistic electrons results in a release time that shows significant scatter with respect to the EM emissions but with a trend of being delayed more with increasing distance between the flare and the nominal footpoint of the Earth-connected field line.
The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of pions created by bombarding targets with a 4 MW proton beam from the CERN High Power Superconducting Proton Linac. The far detector for this facility is the 500 kt MEMPHYS water Cherenkov, located in the Frejus tunnel. The second facility is the Neutrino Factory, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of mu(+) and mu(-) beams in a storage ring. The far detector in this case is a 100 kt magnetized iron neutrino detector at a baseline of 2000 km. The third option is a Beta Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of beta emitting isotopes, in particular He-6 and Ne-18, also stored in a ring. The far detector is also the MEMPHYS detector in the Frejus tunnel. EUROnu has undertaken conceptual designs of these facilities and studied the performance of the detectors. Based on this, it has determined the physics reach of each facility, in particular for the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and estimated the cost of construction. These have demonstrated that the best facility to build is the Neutrino Factory. However, if a powerful proton driver is constructed for another purpose or if the MEMPHYS detector is built for astroparticle physics, the Super Beam also becomes very attractive.
Vevacious: a tool for finding the global minima of one-loop effective potentials with many scalars
(2013)
Several extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics contain additional scalars implying a more complex scalar potential compared to that of the Standard Model. In general these potentials allow for charge- and/or color-breaking minima besides the desired one with correctly broken SU(2) L ×U(1) Y . Even if one assumes that a metastable local minimum is realized, one has to ensure that its lifetime exceeds that of our universe. We introduce a new program called Vevacious which takes a generic expression for a one-loop effective potential energy function and finds all the tree-level extrema, which are then used as the starting points for gradient-based minimization of the one-loop effective potential. The tunneling time from a given input vacuum to the deepest minimum, if different from the input vacuum, can be calculated. The parameter points are given as files in the SLHA format (though is not restricted to supersymmetric models), and new model files can be easily generated automatically by the Mathematica package SARAH. This code uses HOM4PS2 to find all the minima of the tree-level potential, PyMinuit to follow gradients to the minima of the one-loop potential, and CosmoTransitions to calculate tunneling times.
In this discussion session, the sensitivity and optimization of future long-baseline experiments is addressed, with a special emphasis on feasible projects and the description in terms of the error on the parameters. In addition, a statement on the precision interesting for \(ν_e → ν_τ\) and \(ν_μ → ν_τ\)oscillation measurements is obtained. A special topic is the impact of the recent T2K hint for non-zero \(θ_{13}\).
Pinning the Order: The Nature of Quantum Criticality in the Hubbard Model on Honeycomb Lattice
(2013)
In numerical simulations, spontaneously broken symmetry is often detected by computing two-point correlation functions of the appropriate local order parameter. This approach, however, computes the square of the local order parameter, and so when it is small, very large system sizes at high precisions are required to obtain reliable results. Alternatively, one can pin the order by introducing a local symmetrybreaking field and then measure the induced local order parameter infinitely far from the pinning center. The method is tested here at length for the Hubbard model on honeycomb lattice, within the realm of the projective auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. With our enhanced resolution, we find a direct and continuous quantum phase transition between the semimetallic and the insulating antiferromagnetic states with increase of the interaction. The single-particle gap, measured in units of Hubbard U, tracks the staggered magnetization. An excellent data collapse is obtained by finite-size scaling, with the values of the critical exponents in accord with the Gross-Neveu universality class of the transition.
The adiabatic insertion of a \(\pi\) flux into a quantum spin Hall insulator gives rise to localized spin and charge fluxon states. We demonstrate that \(\pi\) fluxes can be used in exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations to identify a correlated \(Z_2\) topological insulator using the example of the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. In the presence of repulsive interactions, a \(\pi\) flux gives rise to a Kramers doublet of spin-fluxon states with a Curie-law signature in the magnetic susceptibility. Electronic correlations also provide a bosonic mode of magnetic excitons with tunable energy that act as exchange particles and mediate a dynamical interaction of adjustable range and strength between spin fluxons. \(\pi\) fluxes can therefore be used to build models of interacting spins. This idea is applied to a three-spin ring and to one-dimensional spin chains. Because of the freedom to create almost arbitrary spin lattices, correlated topological insulators with \(\pi\) fluxes represent a novel kind of quantum simulator, potentially useful for numerical simulations and experiments.
Silicene consists of a monolayer of silicon atoms in a buckled honeycomb structure. It was recently discovered that the symmetry of such a system allows for interesting Rashba spin–orbit effects. A perpendicular electric field is able to couple to the sublattice pseudospin, making it possible to electrically tune and close the band gap. Therefore, external electric fields may generate a topological phase transition from a topological insulator to a normal insulator (or semimetal) and vice versa. The contribution of the present paper to the study of silicene is twofold. Firstly, we perform a group theoretical analysis to systematically construct the Hamiltonian in the vicinity of the K points of the Brillouin zone and find an additional, electric field induced spin–orbit term, that is allowed by symmetry. Subsequently, we identify a tight-binding model that corresponds to the group theoretically derived Hamiltonian near the K points. Secondly, we start from this tight-binding model to analyze the topological phase diagram of silicene by an explicit calculation of the Z2 topological invariant of the band structure. To this end, we calculate the Z2 topological invariant of the honeycomb lattice in a manifestly gauge invariant way which allows us to include Sz symmetry breaking terms—like Rashba spin–orbit interaction—into the topological analysis. Interestingly, we find that the interplay of a Rashba and an intrinsic spin–orbit term can generate a non-trivial quantum spin Hall phase in silicene. This is in sharp contrast to the more extensively studied honeycomb system graphene where Rashba spin–orbit interaction is known to compete with the quantum spin Hall effect in a detrimental way.
We represent the Z2 topological invariant characterizing a one-dimensional topological superconductor using a Wess–Zumino–Witten dimensional extension. The invariant is formulated in terms of the single-particle Green’s function which allows us to classify interacting systems. Employing a recently proposed generalized Berry curvature method, the topological invariant is represented independent of the extra dimension requiring only the single-particle Green’s function at zero frequency of the interacting system. Furthermore, a modified twisted boundary conditions approach is used to rigorously define the topological invariant for disordered interacting systems.
In dieser Arbeit untersuchen wir die Produktion von Neutrinos in astrophysikalischen Quellen. Bei der Beschreibung der Wechselwirkung betrachten wir resonante, direkte und Multipion-Produktion. Zusätzlich berücksichtigen wir die Produktion von Neutronen und positiv geladenen Kaonen. Wir beachten explizit die Energieverluste der Sekundärteilchen - Pionen, Myonen und Kaonen - auf Grund von Synchrotronstrahlung derselben und adiabatischer Expansion. In Bezug auf den Neutrinofluss berücksichtigen wir Flavor-Mischungen der Neutrinos auf dem Weg zum Beobachter. Zunächst führen wir eine Analyse basierend auf einem generischen Quellmodell durch, in der wir den Einfluss von Magnetfeld und Größe der Quelle auf die Neutrinospektren und das Verhältnis der verschiedenen Neutrino-Flavor untersuchen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass man im Rahmen dieses generischen Modells verschiedene Regionen im Parameterraum anhand des Flavor-Verhältnisses, das für hohe Magnetfelder von dem zumeist angenommenen Verhältnis (nu_e:nu_mu:nu_tau)=(1:2:0) abweicht, klassifizieren kann. In einer zweiten Analyse bestimmen wir die erwarteten Neutrinospektren von Gammablitzen im Rahmen des Feuerball-Modells aus beobachteten Photonspektren. Es zeigt sich, dass auf Grund grober Abschätzungen in der Literatur, der Neutrinofluss zumeist um etwa eine Größenordnung überschätzt wird. Deshalb berechnen wir den erwarteten Neutrinofluss der Gammablitze neu, die während der 40-Leinen-Konfiguration des IceCube-Detektors gemessen wurden, und folgern, dass entgegen der Behauptung der IceCube-Kollaboration, das Feuerball-Modell noch nicht ausgeschlossen ist. Des Weiteren quantifizieren wir systematische und astrophysikalische Unsicherheiten in dem vorhergesagten Neutrinofluss.
The top quark plays an important role in current particle physics, from a theoretical point of view because of its uniquely large mass, but also experimentally because of the large number of top events recorded by the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS, which makes it possible to directly measure the properties of this particle, for example its couplings to the other particles of the standard model (SM), with previously unknown precision. In this thesis, an effective field theory approach is employed to introduce a minimal and consistent parametrization of all anomalous top couplings to the SM gauge bosons and fermions which are compatible with the SM symmetries. In addition, several aspects and consequences of the underlying effective operator relations for these couplings are discussed. The resulting set of couplings has been implemented in the parton level Monte Carlo event generator WHIZARD in order to provide a tool for the quantitative assessment of the phenomenological implications at present and future colliders such as the LHC or a planned international linear collider. The phenomenological part of this thesis is focused on the charged current couplings of the top quark, namely anomalous contributions to the trilinear tbW coupling as well as quartic four-fermion contact interactions of the form tbff, both affecting single top production as well as top decays at the LHC. The study includes various aspects of inclusive cross section measurements as well as differential distributions of single tops produced in the t channel, bq → tq', and in the s channel, ud → tb. We discuss the parton level modelling of these processes as well as detector effects, and finally present the prospected LHC reach for setting limits on these couplings with 10 resp. 100 fb−1 of data recorded at √s = 14 TeV.
In this thesis we study various aspects of chaos synchronization of time-delayed coupled chaotic maps. A network of identical nonlinear units interacting by time-delayed couplings can synchronize to a common chaotic trajectory. Even for large delay times the system can completely synchronize without any time shift. In the first part we study chaotic systems with multiple time delays that range over several orders of magnitude. We show that these time scales emerge in the Lyapunov spectrum: Different parts of the spectrum scale with the different delays. We define various types of chaos depending on the scaling of the maximum exponent. The type of chaos determines the synchronization ability of coupled networks. This is, in particular, relevant for the synchronization properties of networks of networks where time delays within a subnetwork are shorter than the corresponding time delays between the different subnetworks. If the maximum Lyapunov exponent scales with the short intra-network delay, only the elements within a subnetwork can synchronize. If, however, the maximum Lyapunov exponent scales with the long inter-network connection, complete synchronization of all elements is possible. The results are illustrated analytically for Bernoulli maps and numerically for tent maps. In the second part the attractor dimension at the transition to complete chaos synchronization is investigated. In particular, we determine the Kaplan-Yorke dimension from the spectrum of Lyapunov exponents for iterated maps. We argue that the Kaplan-Yorke dimension must be discontinuous at the transition and compare it to the correlation dimension. For a system of Bernoulli maps we indeed find a jump in the correlation dimension. The magnitude of the discontinuity in the Kaplan-Yorke dimension is calculated for networks of Bernoulli units as a function of the network size. Furthermore the scaling of the Kaplan-Yorke dimension as well as of the Kolmogorov entropy with system size and time delay is investigated. Finally, we study the change in the attractor dimension for systems with parameter mismatch. In the third and last part the linear response of synchronized chaotic systems to small external perturbations is studied. The distribution of the distances from the synchronization manifold, i.e., the deviations between two synchronized chaotic units due to external perturbations on the transmitted signal, is used as a measure of the linear response. It is calculated numerically and, for some special cases, analytically. Depending on the model parameters this distribution has power law tails in the region of synchronization leading to diverging moments. The linear response is also quantified by means of the bit error rate of a transmitted binary message which perturbs the synchronized system. The bit error rate is given by an integral over the distribution of distances and is studied numerically for Bernoulli, tent and logistic maps. It displays a complex nonmonotonic behavior in the region of synchronization. For special cases the distribution of distances has a fractal structure leading to a devil's staircase for the bit error rate as a function of coupling strength. The response to small harmonic perturbations shows resonances related to coupling and feedback delay times. A bi-directionally coupled chain of three units can completely filter out the perturbation. Thus the second moment and the bit error rate become zero.
In this thesis I present results concerning realistic calculations of correlated fermionic many-body systems. One of the main objectives of this work was the implementation of a hybridization expansion continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-HYB) algorithm and of a flexible self-consistency loop based on the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). DMFT enables us to treat strongly correlated electron systems numerically. After the implementation and extensive testing of the program we investigated different problems to answer open questions concerning correlated systems and their numerical treatment.
Testing Models with Higher Dimensional Effective Interactions at the LHC and Dark Matter Experiments
(2013)
Dark matter and non-zero neutrino masses are possible hints for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Such potential consequences of new physics can be described by effective field theories in a model independent way. It is possible that the dominant contribution to low-energy effects of new physics is generated by operators of dimension d>5, e.g., due to an additional symmetry. Since these are more suppressed than the usually discussed lower dimensional operators, they can lead to extremly weak interactions even if new physics appears at comparatively low scales. Thus neutrino mass models can be connected to TeV scale physics, for instance. The possible existence of TeV scale particles is interesting, since they can be potentially observed at collider experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider. Hence, we first recapitulate the generation of neutrino masses by higher dimensional effective operators in a supersymmetric framework. In addition, we discuss processes that can be used to test these models at the Large Hadron Collider. The introduction of new particles can affect the running of gauge couplings. Hence, we study the compatibilty of these models with Grand Unified Theories. The required extension of these models can imply the existence of new heavy quarks, which requires the consideration of cosmological constraints. Finally, higher dimensional effective operators can not only generate small neutrino masses. They also can be used to discuss the interactions relevant for dark matter detection experiments. Thus we apply the methods established for the study of neutrino mass models to the systematic discussion of higher dimensional effective operators generating dark matter interactions.
Wir untersuchen zunächst das Hubbard-Modell des anisotropen Dreiecksgitters als effektive Beschreibung der Mott-Phase in verschiedenen organischen Verbindungen mit dreieckiger Gitterstruktur. Um die Eigenschaften am absoluten Nullpunkt zu bestimmen benutzen wir die variationelle Cluster Näherung (engl. variational cluster approximation VCA) und erhalten das Phasendiagramm als Funktion der Anisotropie und der Wechselwirkungsstärke. Wir finden für schwache Wechselwirkung ein Metall. Für starke Wechselwirkung finden wir je nach Stärke der Anisotropie eine Néel oder eine 120◦-Néel antiferromagnetische Ordnung. In einem Bereich mittlerer Wechselwirkung entsteht in der Nähe des isotropen Dreiecksgitters ein nichtmagnetischer Isolator. Der Metall-Isolator-Übergang hängt maßgeblich von der Anisotropie ab, genauso wie die Art der magnetischen Ordnung und das Erscheinen und die Ausdehnung der nichtmagnetischen Isolatorphase.
Spin-Bahn Kopplung ist der ausschlaggebende Parameter, der elektronische Bandmodelle in topologische Isolatoren wandelt. Spin-Bahn Kopplung im Allgemeinen beinhaltet auch den Rashba Term, der die SU(2) Symmetrie vollständig bricht. Sobald man auch Wechselwirkungen berücksichtigt, müssen sich viele theoretische Methoden auf die Analyse vereinfachter Modelle beschränken, die nur Spin-Bahn Kopplungen enthalten, welche die U(1) Symmetrie erhalten und damit eine Rashba Kopplung ausschließen. Wir versuchen diese bisher bestehende Lücke zu schließen und untersuchen das Kane-Mele Hubbard (KMH) Modell mit Rashba Spin-Bahn Kopplung und präsentieren eine systematische Analyse des Effekts der Rashba Spin-Bahn Kopplung in einem korrelierten zweidimensionalen topologischen Isolator. Wir wenden die VCA auf dieses Problem an und bestimmen das Phasendiagramm mit Wechselwirkung durch die Berechnung der lokalen Zustandsdichte, der Magnetisierung, der Einteilchenspektralfunktion und der Randzustände. Nach einer ausführlichen Auswertung des KMH-Modells, bei erhaltener U(1) Symmetrie, finden wir auch für endliche Wechselwirkung, dass eine zusätzliche Rashba Kopplung zu neuen elektronischen Phasen führt, wie eine metallische Phase und eine topologische Isolatorphase ohne Bandlücke in der lokalen Zustandsdichte, die aber eine direkte Bandlücke für jeden Wellenvektor besitzt.
Für eine Klasse von 5d Übergangsmetallen untersuchen wir ein KMH ähnliches Modell mit multidirektionaler Spin-Bahn Kopplung, das wegen seiner Relevanz für die Natrium-Iridate (engl. sodium iridate) als SI Modell bezeichnet wird. Diese intrinsische Kopplung bricht die SU(2) Symmetrie bereits vollständig und dennoch erhält man wegen der speziellen Form für starke Wechselwirkung wieder einen rotationssymmetrischen Néel-AFM Isolator. Der topologische Isolator des SIH-Modells ist adiabatisch mit dem des KMH-Modells verbunden, jedoch sind die Randströme hier nicht mehr spinpolarisiert.
Wir verallgemeinern das Konzept der Klein-Transformation, das bereits erfolgreich auf Spin-Hamiltonians angewandt wurde, und wenden es auf ein Hubbard-Modell mit rein imaginären spinabhängigen Hüpfen an, das im Grenzfall unendlicher Wechselwirkung in das Kitaev-Heisenberg Modell übergeht. Dadurch erhält man ein Modell des Dreiecksgitters mit reellen spinunabhängigen Hüpfen, das aber eine mehratomige Einheitszelle besitzt. Für schwache Wechselwirkung ist das System ein Dirac Halbmetall und für starke Wechselwirkung erhält man eine 120◦-Néel antiferromagnetische Ordnung. Für mittlere Wechselwirkung findet man aber einen relativ großen Bereich in dem eine nichtmagnetische Isolatorphase stabil ist. Unsere Ergebnisse deuten auf die mögliche Existenz einer Quanten Spinflüssigkeit hin.
Quantum theory is considered to be the most fundamental and most accurate physical theory of today. Although quantum theory is conceptually difficult to understand, its mathematical structure is quite simple. What determines this particularly simple and elegant mathematical structure? In short: Why is quantum theory as it is?
Addressing such questions is the aim of investigating the foundations of quantum theory. In the past this field of research was sometimes considered as an academic subject without much practical impact. However, with the emergence of quantum information theory this perception has changed significantly and both fields started to fruitfully influence each other. Today fundamental aspects of quantum theory attract increasing attention and the field belongs to the most exciting subjects of theoretical physics.
This thesis is concerned with a particular branch in this field, namely, with so-called Generalized Probabilistic Theories (GPTs), which provide a unified theoretical framework in which classical and quantum theory emerge as special cases. This is used to examine nonlocal features that help to distinguish quantum theory from alternative toy theories. In order to extend the scope of theories that can be examined with the framework, we also introduce several generalizations to the framework itself.
We start in Chapter 1 with introducing the standard GPT framework and summarize previous results, based on a review paper of the author [New J. Phys. 13, 063024 (2011)]. To keep the introduction accessible to a broad readership, we follow a constructive approach. Starting from few basic physically motivated assumptions we show how a given set of observations can be manifested in an operational theory. Furthermore, we characterize consistency conditions limiting the range of possible extensions. We point out that non-classical features of single systems can equivalently result from higher dimensional classical theories that have been restricted. Entanglement and non-locality, however, are shown to be genuine non-classical features. We review features that have been found to be specific for quantum theory separably or single and joint systems.
Chapter 2 incorporates results published in [J. Phys. A 47(32), pp. 1-32 (2014)] and [Proc. QPL 2011 via EPTCS vol. 95, pp. 183–192 (2012)]. The GPT framework is applied to show how the structure of local state spaces indirectly affects possible nonlocal correlations, which are global properties of a theory. These correlations are stronger than those possible in a classical theory, but happen to show different restrictions that can be linked to the structure of subsystems. We first illustrate the phenomenon with toy theories with particular local state spaces. We than show that a particular class of joint states (inner product states), whose existence depends on geometrical properties of the local subsystems, can only have correlations for a known limited set called Q1. All bipartite correlations of both, quantum and classical correlations, can be mapped to measurement statistics from such joint states.
Chapter 3 shows unpublished results on entanglement swapping in GPTs. This protocol, which is well known in quantum information theory, allows to nonlocally transfer entanglement to initially unentangled parties with the help of a third party that shares entanglement with each. We review our approach published in [Proc. QPL 2011 via EPTCS vol. 95, pp. 183–192 (2012)], which mimics the joint systems' structure of quantum theory by modifying a popular toy theory known as boxworld. However, it is illustrated that this approach fails for bigger multipartite systems due to inconsistencies evoked by entanglement swapping. It turns out that the GPT framework does not allow entanglement swapping for general subsystems with two-dimensional state spaces with transitive pure states. Altering the GPT framework to allow completely globally degrees of freedom, however, enables us to construct consistent entanglement swapping for these subsystems. This construction resembles the situation in quantum theory on a real Hilbert space.
A questionable assumption usually taken in the standard GPT framework is the so-called no-restriction hypothesis. It states that the measurement that are possible in a theory can be derived from the state space. In fact, this assumption seems to exist for reasons of mathematical convenience, but it seems to lack physical motivation. We generalize the GPT framework to also account for systems that do not obey the no-restriction hypothesis in Chapter 4, which presents results published in [Phys. Rev. A 87, 052131 (2013)] and [Proc. QPL 2013, to be published in EPTCS]. The extended framework includes new classes of probabilistic theories. As an example, we show how to construct theories that include intrinsic noise. We also provide a "self-dualization" procedure that requires the violation of the no-restriction hypothesis. This procedure restricts the measurement of arbitrary theories such that the theories act as if they were self-dual. Self-duality has recently gathered lots of interest, since such theories share many features of quantum theory. For example Tsirelson’s bound holds for correlations on the maximally entangled state in these theories. Finally, we characterize the maximal set of joint states that can be consistently defined for given subsystems. This generalizes the maximal tensor product of the standard GPT framework.
We re-evaluate the constraints on the parameter space of the minimal supersymmetric standard model from tunneling to charge- and/or color-breaking minima, taking into account thermal corrections. We pay particular attention to the region known as the Natural MSSM, where the masses of the scalar partners of the top quarks are within an order of magnitude or so of the electroweak scale. These constraints arise from the interaction between these scalar tops and the Higgs fields, which allows the possibility of parameter points having deep charge- and color-breaking true vacua. In addition to requiring that our electroweak-symmetry-breaking, yet QCD- and electromagnetism-preserving vacuum has a sufficiently long lifetime at zero temperature, also demanding stability against thermal tunneling further restricts the allowed parameter space.
Numerical Simulations of Heavy Fermion Systems: From He-3 Bilayers to Topological Kondo Insulators
(2014)
Even though heavy fermion systems have been studied for a long time, a strong interest in heavy fermions persists to this day. While the basic principles of local moment formation, Kondo effect and formation of composite quasiparticles leading to a Fermi liquid, are under- stood, there remain many interesting open questions. A number of issues arise due to the interplay of heavy fermion physics with other phenomena like magnetism and superconduc- tivity.
In this regard, experimental and theoretical investigations of He-3 can provide valuable insights. He-3 represents a unique realization of a quantum liquid. The fermionic nature of He-3 atoms, in conjunction with the absence of long-range Coulomb repulsion, makes this material an ideal model system to study Fermi liquid behavior.
Bulk He-3 has been investigated for quite some time. More recently, it became possible to prepare and study layered He-3 systems, in particular single layers and bilayers. The pos- sibility of tuning various physical properties of the system by changing the density of He-3 and using different substrate materials makes layers of He-3 an ideal quantum simulator for investigating two-dimensional Fermi liquid phenomenology.
In particular, bilayers of He-3 have recently been found to exhibit heavy fermion behavior. As a function of temperature, a crossover from an incoherent state with decoupled layers to a coherent Fermi liquid of composite quasiparticles was observed. This behavior has its roots in the hybridization of the two layers. The first is almost completely filled and subject to strong correlation effects, while the second layer is only partially filled and weakly correlated. The quasiparticles are formed due to the Kondo screening of localized moments in the first layer by the second-layer delocalized fermions, which takes place at a characteristic temperature scale, the coherence scale Tcoh.
Tcoh can be tuned by changing the He-3 density. In particular, at a certain critical filling,
the coherence scale is expected to vanish, corresponding to a divergence of the quasiparticle effective mass, and a breakdown of the Kondo effect at a quantum critical point. Beyond the critical point, the layers are decoupled. The first layer is a local moment magnet, while the second layer is an itinerant overlayer.
However, already at a filling smaller than the critical value, preempting the critical point, the onset of a finite sample magnetization was observed. The character of this intervening phase remained unclear.
Motivated by these experimental observations, in this thesis the results of model calcula- tions based on an extended Periodic Anderson Model are presented. The three particle ring exchange, which is the dominant magnetic exchange process in layered He-3, is included in the model. It leads to an effective ferromagnetic interaction between spins on neighboring sites. In addition, the model incorporates the constraint of no double occupancy by taking the limit of large local Coulomb repulsion.
By means of Cellular DMFT, the model is investigated for a range of values of the chemical potential µ and inverse temperature β = 1/T . The method is a cluster extension to the Dy- namical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT), and allows to systematically include non-local correla- tions beyond the DMFT. The auxiliary cluster model is solved by a hybridization expansion CTQMC cluster solver, which provides unbiased, numerically exact results for the Green’s function and other observables of interest.
As a first step, the onset of Fermi liquid coherence is studied. At low enough temperature, the self-energy is found to exhibit a linear dependence on Matsubara frequency. Meanwhile, the spin susceptibility crossed over from a Curie-Weiss law to a Pauli law. Both observations serve as fingerprints of the Fermi liquid state.
The heavy fermion state appears at a characteristic coherence scale Tcoh. This scale depends strongly on the density. While it is rather high for small filling, for larger filling Tcoh is increas- ingly suppressed. This involves a decreasing quasiparticle residue Z ∼ Tcoh and an enhanced mass renormalization m∗/m ∼ Tcoh−1. Extrapolation leads to a critical filling, where the co-
herence scale is expected to vanish at a quantum critical point. At the same time, the effective mass diverges. This corresponds to a breakdown of the Kondo effect, which is responsible for the formation of quasiparticles, due to a vanishing of the effective hybridization between the layers.
Taking only single-site DMFT results into account, the above scenario seems plausible. However, paramagnetic DMFT neglects the ring exchange interaction completely. In or- der to improve on this, Cellular DMFT simulations are conducted for small clusters of size Nc = 2 and 3. The results paint a different physical picture. The ring exchange, by favor- ing a ferromagnetic alignment of spins, competes with the Kondo screening. As a result, strong short-range ferromagnetic fluctuations appear at larger values of µ. By lowering the temperature, these fluctuations are enhanced at first. However, for T < Tcoh they are increas- ingly suppressed, which is consistent with Fermi liquid coherence. However, beyond a certain threshold value of µ, fluctuations persist to the lowest temperatures. At the same time, while not apparent in the DMFT results, the total occupation n increases quite strongly in a very narrow range around the same value of µ. The evolution of n with µ is always continuous, but hints at a discontinuity in the limit Nc → ∞. This first-order transition breaks the Kondo effect. Beyond the transition, a ferromagnetic state in the first layer is established, and the second layer becomes a decoupled overlayer.
These observations provide a quite appealing interpretation of the experimental results. As a function of chemical potential, the Kondo breakdown quantum critical point is preempted by a first-order transition, where the layers decouple and the first layer turns into a ferromagnet. In the experimental situation, where the filling can be tuned directly, the discontinuous transition is mirrored by a phase separation, which interpolates between the Fermi liquid ground state at lower filling and the magnetic state at higher filling. This is precisely the range of the intervening phase found in the experiments, which is characterized by an onset of a finite sample magnetization.
Besides the interplay of heavy fermion physics and magnetic exchange, recently the spin- orbit coupling, which is present in many heavy fermion materials, attracted a lot of interest. In the presence of time-reversal symmetry, due to spin-orbit coupling, there is the possibility of a topological ground state.
It was recently conjectured that the energy scale of spin-orbit coupling can become dom- inant in heavy fermion materials, since the coherence scale and quasiparticle bandwidth are rather small. This can lead to a heavy fermion ground state with a nontrivial band topology; that is, a topological Kondo insulator (TKI). While being subject to strong correlation effects, this state must be adiabatically connected to a non-interacting, topological state.
The idea of the topological ground state realized in prototypical Kondo insulators, in par- ticular SmB6, promises to shed light on some of the peculiarities of these materials, like a residual conductivity at the lowest temperatures, which have remained unresolved so far.
In this work, a simple two-band model for two-dimensional topological Kondo insulators is devised, which is based on a single Kramer’s doublet coupled to a single conduction band. The model is investigated in the presence of a Hubbard interaction as a function of interaction strength U and inverse temperature β. The bulk properties of the model are obtained by DMFT, with a hybridization expansion CTQMC impurity solver. The DMFT approximation of a local self-energy leads to a very simple way of computing the topological invariant.
The results show that with increasing U the system can be driven through a topological phase transition. Interestingly, the transition is between distinct topological insulating states, namely the Γ-phase and M-phase. This appearance of different topological phases is possible due to the symmetry of the underlying square lattice. By adiabatically connecting both in- teracting states with the respective non-interacting state, it is shown that the transition indeed drives the system from the Γ-phase to the M-phase.
A different behavior can be observed by pushing the bare position of the Kramer’s doublet to higher binding energies. In this case, the non-interacting starting point has a trivial band topology. By switching on the interaction, the system can be tuned through a quantum phase transition, with a closing of the band gap. Upon reopening of the band gap, the system is in the Γ-phase, i. e. a topological insulator. By increasing the interaction strength further, the system moves into a strongly correlated regime. In fact, close to the expected transition to the M phase, the mass renormalization becomes quite substantial. While absent in the para- magnetic DMFT simulations conducted, it is conceivable that instead of a topological phase transition, the system undergoes a time-reversal symmetry breaking, magnetic transition.
The regime of strong correlations is studied in more detail as a function of temperature, both in the bulk and with open boundary conditions. A quantity which proved very useful is the bulk topological invariant Ns, which can be generalized to finite interaction strength and temperature. In particular, it can be used to define a temperature scale T ∗ for the onset of the topological state. Rescaling the results for Ns, a nice data collapse of the results for different values of U, from the local moment regime to strongly mixed valence, is obtained. This hints at T ∗ being a universal low energy scale in topological Kondo insulators. Indeed, by comparing T ∗ with the coherence scale extracted from the self-energy mass renormalization, it is found that both scales are equivalent up to a constant prefactor. Hence, the scale T ∗ obtained from the temperature dependence of topological properties, can be used as an independent measure for Fermi liquid coherence. This is particularly useful in the experimentally relevant mixed valence regime, where charge fluctuations cannot be neglected. Here, a separation of the energy scales related to spin and charge fluctuations is not possible.
The importance of charge fluctuations becomes evident in the extent of spectral weight transfer as the temperature is lowered. For mixed valence, while the hybridization gap emerges, a substantial amount of spectral weight is shifted from the vicinity of the Fermi level to the lower Hubbard band. In contrast, this effect is strongly suppressed in the local moment regime.
In addition to the bulk properties, the spectral function for open boundaries is studied as a function of temperature, both in the local moment and mixed valence regime. This allows an investigation of the emergence of topological edge states with temperature. The method used here is the site-dependent DMFT, which is a generalization of the conventional DMFT to inhomogeneous systems. The hybridization expansion CTQMC algorithm is used as impurity solver.
By comparison with the bulk results for the topological quantity Ns, it is found that the
temperature scale for the appearance of the topological edge states is T ∗, both in the mixed valence and local moment regime.