[en] A proposed new method of cooling positronium is to realize the Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of positronium. We perform detailed studies of three processes: (1) thermalization processes between positronium and the silica walls of a cavity, (2) Ps–Ps scattering and (3) laser cooling. The thermalization process is shown to be not sufficient for BEC. Ps–Ps collision is shown to have a big effect on the cooling performance. We combine both methods and establish an efficient cooling process for BEC. We also propose a new optical laser system for the cooling. (paper)

[en] We numerically explore the many body localization (MBL) transition through the lens of the entanglement spectrum. While a direct transition from localization to thermalization is believed to be obtained in the thermodynamic limit (the exact details of which remain an open problem), in finite system sizes there exists an intermediate ‘quantum critical’ regime. Previous numerical investigations have explored the crossover from thermalization to criticality, and have used this to place a numerical lower bound on the critical disorder strength for MBL. A careful analysis of the high energy part of the entanglement spectrum (which contains universal information about the critical point) allows us to study the crossover from criticality to MBL, and we find evidence for such a crossover which could allow us to place a numerical upper bound on the critical disorder strength for MBL. (paper)

[en] We explore the possibility for translationally invariant quantum many-body systems to undergo a dynamical glass transition, at which ergodicity and translational invariance break down spontaneously, driven entirely by quantum effects. In contrast to analogous classical systems, where the existence of such an ideal glass transition remains a controversial issue, a genuine phase transition is predicted in the quantum regime. This ideal quantum glass transition can be regarded as a many-body localization transition due to self-generated disorder. Despite their lack of thermalization, these disorder-free quantum glasses do not possess an extensive set of local conserved operators, unlike what is conjectured for many-body localized systems with strong quenched disorder

[en] Correlation characteristics of high energy very high multiplicity interactions are investigated. (author)

[en] We aim to study the participant-spectator matter over a wide range of energies of vanishing flow and masses. For this, we have employed different model parameters at central and semicentral colliding geometries. A nearly mass independent nature of the participant matter has been obtained at the energy of vanishing flow. Further, participant matter can also act as an indicator to study the degree of thermalization.

[en] We analyze a class of energy and wealth redistribution models, characterizing their stationary measures and showing that they have a discrete dual process. In particular we show that the wealth distribution model with non-zero saving propensity can never have invariant product measures. We also introduce diffusion processes associated to the wealth distribution models by ‘instantaneous thermalization’. (paper)

[en] A preliminary design has been developed for a high-resolution, transportable neutron radiology system (TNRS) concept. The primary system requirement is taken to be a thermal neutron flux of 10⁶n/(cm²-sec) with a L/D ratio of 100. The approach is to use an accelerator-driven neutron source, with a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) as the primary accelerator component. Initial concepts for all of the major components of the system have been developed, and selected key parts have been examined further. An overview of the system design is presented, together with brief summaries of the concepts for the ion source, low energy beam transport (LEBT), RFQ, high energy beam transport (HEBT), target, moderator, collimator, image collection, power, cooling, vacuum, structure, robotics, control system, data analysis, transport vehicle, and site support. The use of trade studies for optimizing the TNRS concept are also described. copyright 1997 American Institute of Physics

[en] We present a matrix model which is intended as a toy model of the gauge dual of an AdS black hole. In particular, it captures the key property that at infinite N correlators decay to zero on long time scales, while at finite N this cannot happen. The model consists of a harmonic oscillator in the adjoint which acts as a heat bath for a particle in the fundamental representation. The Schwinger-Dyson equation reduces to a closed recursion relation, which we study by various analytical and numerical methods. We discuss some implications for the information problem.

[en] The interaction between an initially pure two-level atom and the mixed thermal quantized field mode in the framework of the Jaynes–Cummings model is considered with the employment of quantum causal analysis . At the high temperature of the field, a distinction between the resulting properties of initially excited and ground atom states smoothes over and the whole state turns out to be causally asymmetric, entangled and ‘classical’ in the entropic sense. The average asymptotic entanglement is found. It is revealed that the thermalization acting on the field corresponds to the stronger causality and entanglement decay, rather than the thermalization acting only on the atom. (paper)

[en] The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) states that for nonintegrable systems, each energy eigenstate accurately gives microcanonical expectation values for a class of observables. In this paper, we explore the ETH in terms of the time-energy uncertainty and an intrinsic thermal nature shared by the majority of quasi eigenstates of operationally defined ‘time operator’: First, we show that the energy eigenstates are superposition of uncountably many quasi eigenstates of suitably defined ‘time operator’. Majority of such quasi eigenstates are thermal for thermodynamic isolated quantum many-body systems and approximately orthogonal in terms of extremely short relaxation time of the fidelity. In this manner, our scenario provides a theoretical explanation of ETH. (paper)