Electron-nuclear entanglement in the cold lithium gas

We study the ground-state entanglement and thermal entanglement in the hyperfine interaction of the lithium atom. We give the relationship between the entanglement and both temperature and external magnetic fields.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure

b→cτνb\to c\tau\nu Transitions in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

The $R(D^{(\ast)})$ anomalies observed in $B\to D^{(\ast)}\tau\nu$ decays have attracted much attention in recent years. In this paper, we study the $B\to D^{(\ast)}\tau\nu$, $\Lambda_b\to\Lambda_c\tau\nu$, $B_c\to (J/\psi,\,\eta_c)\tau\nu$, $B\to X_c\tau\nu$, and $B_c\to\tau\nu$ decays, all being mediated by the same quark-level $b\to c\tau\nu$ transition, in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. The most relevant dimension-six operators for these processes are $Q_{lq}^{(3)}$, $Q_{ledq}$, $Q^{(1)}_{lequ}$, and $Q^{(3)}_{lequ}$ in the Warsaw basis. Evolution of the corresponding Wilson coefficients from the new physics scale $\Lambda=1$~TeV down to the characteristic scale $\mu_b\simeq m_b$ is performed at three-loop in QCD and one-loop in EW/QED. It is found that, after taking into account the constraint ${\cal B}(B_c\to\tau\nu)\lesssim 10\%$, a single $\left[C_{lq}^{(3)}\right]_{3323}(\Lambda)$ or $\left[C^{(3)}_{lequ}\right]_{3332}(\Lambda)$ can still be used to resolve the $R(D^{(\ast)})$ anomalies at $1\sigma$, while a single $\left[C^{(1)}_{lequ}\right]_{3332}(\Lambda)$ is already ruled out by the measured $R(D^{(\ast)})$ at more than $3\sigma$. By minimizing the $\chi^2(C_i)$ function constructed based on the current data on $R(D)$, $R(D^\ast)$, $P_\tau(D^\ast)$, $R(J/\psi)$, and $R(X_c)$, we obtain eleven most trustworthy scenarios, each of which can provide a good explanation of the $R(D^{(\ast)})$ anomalies at $1\sigma$. To further discriminate these different scenarios, we predict thirty-one observables associated with the processes considered under each NP scenario. It is found that most of the scenarios can be differentiated from each other by using these observables and their correlations.Comment: 43 pages, 3 figures and 5 tables; references updated and more discussions added, final version to be published in the journa

The role of inter-well tunneling strength on coherence dynamics of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates

Coherence dynamics of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in double wells is investigated in mean field approximation. We show that the system can exhibit decoherence phenomena even without the condensate-environment coupling and the variation tendency of the degree of coherence depends on not only the parameters of the system but also the initial states. We also investigate the time evolution of the degree of coherence for a Rosen-Zener form of tunneling strength, and propose a method to get a condensate system with certain degree of coherence through a time-dependent tunneling strength

Attractive Interaction between Vortex and Anti-vortex in Holographic Superfluid

Annihilation process of a pair of vortices in holographic superfluid is numerically simulated. The process is found to consist of two stages which are amazingly separated by vortex size $2r$. The separation distance $\delta(t)$ between vortex and anti-vortex as a function of time is well fitted by $\alpha (t_{0}-t)^{n}$, where the scaling exponent $n=1/2$ for $\delta (t)>2r$, and $n=2/5$ for $\delta(t)<2r$. Then the approaching velocity and acceleration as functions of time and as functions of separation distance are obtained. Thus the attractive force between vortex and anti-vortex is derived as $f(\delta)\propto 1/\delta^{3}$ for the first stage, and $f(\delta)\propto 1/\delta^{4}$ for the second stage. In the end, we explained why the annihilation rate of vortices in turbulent superfluid system obeys the two-body decay law when the vortex density is low.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure

A New Phase Transition Related to the Black Hole's Topological Charge

The topological charge $\epsilon$ of AdS black hole is introduced in Ref.[1,2], where a complete thermodynamic first law is obtained. In this paper, we investigate a new phase transition related to the topological charge in Einstein-Maxwell theory. Firstly, we derive the explicit solutions corresponding to the divergence of specific heat $C_{\epsilon}$ and determine the phase transition critical point. Secondly, the $T-r$ curve and $T-S$ curve are investigated and they exhibit an interesting van der Waals system's behavior. Critical physical quantities are also obtained which are consistent with those derived from the specific heat analysis. Thirdly, a van der Waals system's swallow tail behavior is observed when $\epsilon>\epsilon_{c}$ in the $F-T$ graph. What's more, the analytic phase transition coexistence lines are obtained by using the Maxwell equal area law and free energy analysis, the results of which are consistent with each other.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure