Publications associées à Classical unified field theories

Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field

General relativity (GR) exists in different formulations. They are equivalent in pure gravity but generically lead to distinct predictions once matter is included. After a brief overview of various versions of GR, we focus on metric-affine gravity, which a ...

American Physical Society2022

The art of simulating the early universe. Part I. Integration techniques and canonical cases

Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Adrien Florio, Wessel Valkenburg, Francisco Torrenti

We present a comprehensive discussion on lattice techniques for the simulation of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe. After reviewing the continuum formulation of scalar and gauge field interactions in Minkowski and FLRW backgrounds, ...

2021

Aspects of Gauge Theories Vacua

Adrien Florio

This thesis is concerned with gauge theories, their complicated vacuum and resulting effects. After an introduction to the subject, it is divided into four parts. Firstly, we treat the problem of chiral charge dynamics at finite temperature. Quantum field ...

EPFL2020

Entropy and optimality in river deltas

Andrea Rinaldo

The form and function of river deltas is intricately linked to the evolving structure of their channel networks, which controls how effectively deltas are nourished with sediments and nutrients.Understanding the coevolution of deltaic channels and their fl ...

National Academy of Sciences2017

A gauge invariant Debye mass and the complex heavy-quark potential

Yannis Burnier

Following the original idea of Debye, we define and extract a gauge-invariant screening mass from the complex static in-medium heavy-quark potential V-Q (Q) over bar, recently obtained from lattice QCD. To this end we derive a formula using concepts from b ...

Elsevier2016

Maximizing Nonlinear Optical Conversion in Plasmonic Nanoparticles through Ideal Absorption of Light

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet, Kuang-Yu Yang, Shourya Dutta Gupta

The optimization of nonlinear optical processes in plasmonic structures is important for the design of efficient nonlinear nanosources of light. Considering the simple case of spherical nanoparticles, we clearly identify the most efficient channel for seco ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Pressure, relaxation volume, and elastic interactions in charged simulation cells

Céline Varvenne

The ab initio calculation of charged supercells within density-functional theory is a necessary step to access several important properties of matter. The relaxation volume of charged point defects or the partial molar volume of ions in solution are two su ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Surface Impurities Are Not Responsible For the Charge on the Oil/Water Interface: A Comment

Sylvie Roke, Rüdiger Scheu, Kailash Chandra Jena

A recent communication by Roger and Cabane[1] on the origin of negative charge on the interface between oil and water states that: "The basic assumption of all previous experimental and theoretical studies has been that these systems have "pristine" oil/wa ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2012

A New Lagrangian Dynamic Reduction In Field Theory

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

For symmetric classical field theories on principal bundles there are two methods of symmetry reduction: covariant and dynamic. Assume that the classical field theory is given by a symmetric covariant Lagrangian density defined on the first jet bundle of a ...

2010

Anomaly driven signatures of new invisible physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM) predict new neutral vector bosons at energies accessible by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We study an extension of the SM with new chiral fermions subject to non-trivial anomaly cancellations. If the new fermio ...

2010

Chiral Asymmetry from a 5D Higgs Mechanism

Mikhail Chapochnikov

An intriguing feature of the Standard Model is that the representations of the unbroken gauge symmetries are vector-like whereas those of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries are chiral. Here we provide a toy model which shows that a natural explanati ...

Springer Nature2007

On the decoupling of heavy modes in Kaluza-Klein theories

Mikhail Chapochnikov

In this paper we examine the 4-dimensional effective theory for the light Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes. Our main interest is in the interaction terms. We point out that the contribution of the heavy KK modes is generally needed in order to reproduce the correct ...

2006