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Kwang-Sup Soh

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Impact of optical phonon scattering on magnetotransport in double-barrier heterostructures

The transport in double-barrier heterostructures of electrons interacting with longitudinal optical phonons in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields is analyzed theoretically with the aid of a 3-dimensional quantum transport simulator. Inter Landau state transitions induced by LO-phonon scattering-assisted resonant-tunneling is shown to be an important process with a probability comparable to that of intra Landau state scattering. Analysis of the current-voltage characteristics reveals also that the current peak is a periodic function of the inverse of the magnetic field, with a period dependent on the quasi-resonant energy level.

cond-mat.mes-hall

Noncommutative Chern-Simons Solitons

The Chern-Simons theories on a noncommutative plane, which is shown to be describing the quantum Hall liquid, is considered. We introduce matter fields fundamentally coupled to the noncommutative Chern-Simons field. Exploiting BPS equations for the nonrelativistic Chern-Simons theory, we find the exact solutions of multi vortices that are closely packed and exponentially localized. We determine the position, the size and the angular momentum explicitly. We then construct the solutions of two spatially separated vortices and determine the moduli dependence of the size and the angular momentum. We also consider the relativistic Chern-Simons theory and find nontopological solutions whose properties are similar to the nonrelativistic counterpart. However, unlike the nonrelativistic case, there are two branches of solutions for a given magnetic field and they cease to exist below certain noncommutativity scale.

hep-th

Reissner-Nordström-AdS black hole in the GEMS approach

We obtain a (5+2)-dimensional global flat embedding of the (3+1)-dimensional curved RN-AdS space. Our results include the various limiting cases of global embedding Minkowski space (GEMS) geometries of the RN, Schwarzschild-AdS in (5+2)-dimensions, Schwarzschild in (5+1)-dimensions, purely charged space, and universal covering space of AdS in (4+1)-dimensions, through the successive truncation procedure of parameters in the original curved space.

gr-qc

Noncommutative Field Theories and Smooth Commutative Limits

We consider two model field theories on a noncommutative plane that have smooth commutative limits. One is the single-component fermion theory with quartic interaction that vanishes identically in the commutative limit. The other is a scalar-fermion theory, which extends the scalar field theory with quartic interaction by adding a fermion. We compute the bound state energies and the two particle scattering amplitudes exactly.

hep-th

Exact Wavefunctions in a Noncommutative Field Theory

We consider the nonrelativistic field theory with a quartic interaction on a noncommutative plane. We compute the four point scattering amplitude within perturbative analysis to all orders and identify the beta function and the running of the coupling constant. Since the theory admits an equivalent description via the N particle Schrodinger equation, we regain the scattering amplitude by finding an exact scattering wavefunction of the two body equation. The wave function for the bound state is also identified. These wave functions unusually have two center positions in the relative coordinates. The separation of the centers is in the transverse direction of the total momentum and grows linearly with the noncommutativity scale and the total momentum, exhibiting the stringy nature of the noncommutative field theory.

hep-th

Black Hole Decay and Quantum Instantons

We study the analytic structure of the S-matrix which is obtained from the reduced Wheeler-DeWitt wave function describing spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of massless scalar fields. The complex simple poles in the S-matrix lead to the wave functions that satisfy the same boundary condition as quasi-normal modes of a black hole, and correspond to the bounded states of the Euclidean Wheeler-DeWitt equation. These wave function are interpreted as quantum instantons.

gr-qc

Semiclassical Limit and Time in Quantum Cosmology

We propose a method to recover the time variable and the classical evolution of the Universe from the minisuperspace wave function of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Defining a Hamilton-Jacobi characteristic function $W$ as the imaginary part of the $\ln Ψ$ we can recover the classical solution, and quantum corrections. The key idea is to let the energy of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation vanish only after the semiclassical limit is taken.

gr-qc

Wave Functions for Quantum Black Hole Formation in Scalar Field Collapse

We study quantum mechanically the self-similar black hole formation by collapsing scalar field and find the wave functions that give the correct semiclassical limit. In contrast to classical theory, the wave functions for the black hole formation even in the supercritical case have not only incoming flux but also outgoing flux. From this result we compute the rate for the black hole formation. In the subcritical case our result agrees with the semiclassical tunneling rate. Furthermore, we show how to recover the classical evolution of black hole formation from the wave function by defining the Hamilton-Jacobi characteristic function as $W = \hbar {\rm Im} \ln ψ$. We find that the quantum corrected apparent horizon deviates from the classical value only slightly without any qualitative change even in the critical case.

gr-qc

Determination of the proper embedding parameters for noisy time series

We suggest an algorithm for determining the proper delay time and the minimum embedding dimension for Takens' delay-time embedding procedure. This method resorts to the rate of change of the spatial distribution of points on a reconstructed attractor with respect to the delay time, and can be successfully applied to a noisy time series which is too noisy to be discriminated from a sutructureless noisy time series by means of the correlation integral, and also indicates that the proper delay time depends on the embedding dimension.

chao-dyn

Localization Instability in the Rotating D-branes

In the microcanonical ensemble for string theory on $ AdS_m \times S^n$, there is a phase transition between a black hole solution extended over the $S^n$ and a solution localized on the $S^n$ if the $AdS_m$ has the topology $R^2 \times S^{m-2}$. The phase transition will not appear if the $AdS_m$ has the topology $R^2 \times T^{m-2}$, that is, when the $AdS_m\times S^n$ geometry is regarded as arising from the near-horizon limit of a black $m-2$ brane. In this paper, we argue that when the black branes are rotating, the localization phase transition will occur between some rotating branes and corresponding Kerr black holes when the angular momentum reaches its critical value.

hep-th

Critical Behavior in the Rotating D-branes

The low energy excitation of the rotating D3-branes is thermodynamically stable up to a critical angular momentum density. This indicates that there is a corresponding phase transition of the ${\cal N}$=4 large $N$ super Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature. On the side of supergravity, we investigate the phase transition in the grand canonical ensemble and canonical ensemble. Some critical exponents of thermodynamic quantities are calculated. They obey the static scaling laws. Using the scaling laws related to the correlation length, we get the critical exponents of the correlation function of gauge field. The thermodynamic stability of low energy excitations of the rotating M5-branes and rotating M2-branes is also studied and similar critical behavior is observed. We find that the critical point is shifted in the different ensembles and there is no critical point in the canonical ensemble for the rotating M2-branes. We also discuss the Hawking-Page transition for these rotating branes. In the grand canonical ensemble, the Hawking-Page transition does not occur. In the canonical ensemble, however, the Hawking-Page transition may appear for the rotating D3- and M5-branes, but not for the rotating M2-branes.

hep-th

Perturbation Method beyond the Variational Gaussian Approximation: The Liouville-Neumann Approach

We have developed a variational perturbation theory based on the Liouville-Neumann equation, which enables one to systematically compute the perturbative correction terms to the variationally determined wave functions of the time-dependent systems. We then apply the method to the time-independent anharmonic oscillator, and show that the results agree with those of other variational perturbation theories. We also show that the system has an interesting algebraic structure at the first order correction level.

hep-th

Renormalization of Black Hole Entropy

We review the renormalization of one-loop effective action for gravity coupled to a scalar field and that of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a black hole plus the statistical entropy of the scalar field. It is found that the total entropy of the black hole's geometric entropy and the statistical entropy yields the renormalized Bekenstein-Hawking area-law of black hole entropy only for even dimensional Reissner-Nördstrom (Schwarzschild) black holes. We discuss the problem of the microscopic origin of black hole entropy in connection with the renormalization of black hole entropy.

gr-qc

Action and entropy of black holes in spacetimes with a cosmological constant

In the Euclidean path integral approach, we calculate the actions and the entropies for the Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter solutions. When the temperatures of black hole and cosmological horizons are equal, the entropy is the sum of one-quarter areas of black hole and cosmological horizons; when the inner and outer black hole horizons coincide, the entropy is only one-quarter area of cosmological horizon; and the entropy vanishes when the two black hole horizons and cosmological horizon coincide. We also calculate the Euler numbers of the corresponding Euclidean manifolds, and discuss the relationship between the entropy of instanton and the Euler number.

gr-qc

Loss of Quantum Coherence and Positivity of Energy Density in Semiclassical Quantum Gravity

In the semiclassical quantum gravity derived from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, the energy density of a matter field loses quantum coherence due to the induced gauge potential from the parametric interaction with gravity in a non-static spacetime. It is further shown that the energy density takes only positive values and makes superposition principle hold true. By studying a minimal massive scalar field in a FRW spacetime background, we illustrate the positivity of energy density and obtain the classical Hamiltonian of a complex field from the energy density in coherent states.

gr-qc

Topological black holes in the dimensionally continued gravity

We investigate the topological black holes in a special class of Lovelock gravity. In the odd dimensions, the action is the Chern-Simons form for the anti-de Sitter group. In the even dimensions, it is the Euler density constructed with the Lorentz part of the anti-de Sitter curvature tensor. The Lovelock coefficients are reduced to two independent parameters: cosmological constant and gravitational constant. The event horizons of these topological black holes may have constant positive, zero or negative curvature. Their thermodynamics is analyzed and electrically charged topological black holes are also considered. We emphasize the differences due to the different curvatures of event horizons. As a comparison, we also discuss the topological black holes in the higher dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory with a negative cosmological constant.

gr-qc

Factorization and q-Deformed Algebra of Quantum Anharmonic Oscillator

We have studied the underlying algebraic structure of the anharmonic oscillator by using the variational perturbation theory. To the first order of the variational perturbation, the Hamiltonian is found to be factorized into a supersymmetric form in terms of the annihilation and creation operators, which satisfy a q-deformed algebra. This algebraic structure is used to construct all the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian.

hep-th