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Christoph Mueller

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arXiv2020

Chiral effective theories with a light scalar at one loop

There are indications that some theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking also feature a light scalar in their spectrum, with a mass comparable to the one of the Goldstone modes. In this paper, we perform the one-loop renormalization of a theory of Goldstone modes invariant under a chiral $SU(n)\times SU(n)$ symmetry group coupled to a generic scalar singlet. We employ the background field method, together with the heat kernel expansion, to get an expression for the effective action at one loop and single out the anomalous dimensions, which can be read off from the second Seeley-DeWitt coefficient. As a relevant application, we use our master formula to renormalize chiral-scale perturbation theory, an alternative to $SU(3)$ chiral perturbation theory where the $f_0(500)$ meson is interpreted as a dilaton. Based on our results, we briefly discuss strategies to test and discern both effective field theories using lattice simulations.

hep-ph↗

arXiv2018

Pulsed polarisation for robust DNP

Dynamical nuclear polarisation (DNP) is an important technique that uses polarisation transfer from electron to nuclear spins to achieve nuclear hyperpolarisation. As the electron spin of the nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres in diamond can be optically initialised nearly perfectly even at room temperature and ambient conditions, new opportunities become possible by the combination of efficient DNP with optically polarised NV centres. Among such applications are nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of liquids, hyperpolarised nanodiamonds as MRI contrast agents as well as the initialisation of nuclear spin based diamond quantum simulators. Current realisations of DNP perform the polarisation transfer by achieving energetic resonance between electrons and nuclei via carefully tuned microwave fields or by using quasi-adiabatic sweep-based schemes across resonance points. The former limits robustness against control errors while the latter limits polarisation rates, making the realisation of the applications extremely challenging. Here we introduce the concept of Hamiltonian engineering by pulse sequences and use it for the systematic design of polarisation sequences that are simultaneously robust and fast. We derive sequences theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that they are capable of efficient polarisation transfer from an optically polarised nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond to the surrounding $^{13}$C nuclear spin bath even in the presence of control errors, making it an ideal tool for the realisation of the above NV centre based applications.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2009

Borel-Weil Theory for Root Graded Banach-Lie groups

In this paper we introduce (weakly) root graded Banach--Lie algebras and corresponding Lie groups as natural generalizations of group like $\GL_n(A)$ for a Banach algebra $A$ or groups like $C(X,K)$ of continuous maps of a compact space $X$ into a complex semisimple Lie group $K$. We study holomorphic induction from holomorphic Banach representations of so-called parabolic subgroups $P$ to representations of $G$ on holomorphic sections of homogeneous vector bundles over $G/P$. One of our main results is an algebraic characterization of the space of sections which is used to show that this space actually carries a natural Banach structure, a result generalizing the finite dimensionality of spaces of sections of holomorphic bundles over compact complex manifolds. We also give a geometric realization of any irreducible holomorphic representation of a (weakly) root graded Banach--Lie group $G$ and show that all holomorphic functions on the spaces $G/P$ are constant.

math.RT↗