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Yi-Zen Chu @ Fermilab Monday, 7 February 2011

Don’t Shake That Solenoid Too Hard: Particle Production From Aharonov-Bohm. Yi-Zen Chu @ Fermilab Monday, 7 February 2011. K. Jones-Smith, H. Mathur , and T. Vachaspati , Phys. Rev. D 81 :043503,2010 Y.-Z.Chu , H. Mathur , and T. Vachaspati , Phys. Rev. D 82 :063515,2010

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Yi-Zen Chu @ Fermilab Monday, 7 February 2011

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  1. Don’t Shake That Solenoid Too Hard: Particle Production From Aharonov-Bohm Yi-Zen Chu @ Fermilab Monday, 7 February 2011 K. Jones-Smith, H. Mathur, and T. Vachaspati, Phys. Rev. D 81:043503,2010 Y.-Z.Chu, H. Mathur, and T. Vachaspati, Phys. Rev. D 82:063515,2010 D.A. Steer, T. Vachaspati, arXiv:1012.1998 [hep-th]

  2. Setup z Shake the Solenoid! B y x

  3. Setup z e+ Pop! e- e- B e+ y x

  4. Aharonov and Bohm • (AB, 1959) Quantum Mechanics: • Vector potential Aμ is not merely computational crutch but indispensable for quantum dynamics of charged particles. • (2010) Quantum Field Theory: • Spontaneous pair production of charged particles just by shaking a thin solenoid.

  5. Aharonov and Bohm (1959) • Purely quantum process. Outgoing electrons θ w Ф Incoming electrons • Maxwell tensor is zero almost everywhere in thin solenoid limit – no classical dynamics. • Non-zero cross section (AB 1959; Alford, Wilczek 1989)

  6. Aharonov and Bohm (1959) • Purely quantum process. Outgoing electrons θ w Ф Incoming electrons • Maxwell tensor is zero almost everywhere in thin solenoid limit – no classical dynamics. • Quantum dyanmics: Aμ is non-zero outside solenoid.

  7. Aharonov and Bohm (1959) • Purely quantum process. Outgoing electrons θ w Ф Incoming electrons • Maxwell tensor is zero almost everywhere in thin solenoid limit – no classical dynamics. • Periodic dependence on eФ – topological interaction.

  8. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction • Purely quantum process. • Topological aspect: Ф AB QM • QM: Amp. for paths that cannot be deformed into each other will differ by exp[i(integer)eФ]

  9. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction • Purely quantum process. • Topological aspect: Ф AB QM • QM: Amp. for paths belonging to different classes will differ by exp[i(integer)eФ]

  10. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction • Purely quantum process. • Topological aspect: Ф AB QM • QM: Amp. for paths belonging to different classes will differ by exp[i(integer)eФ]

  11. Aharonov-Bohm Interaction • Purely quantum process. • Topological aspect: Ф AB QM • Expect: Pair production rate to have periodic dependence on AB phase eФ.

  12. Setup z e+ e- e- B e+ y x

  13. Setup • Effective theory of magnetic flux tube: Alford and Wilczek (1989). • Bosonic or fermionic quantum electrodynamics (QED) Bosonic QED Fermionic QED

  14. Why are particles produced? • The gauge potential Aμ around a moving solenoid is time-dependent. • Hamiltonian of QFT is explicitly time-dependent: Hi = ∫d3x AμJμ • Zero particle state (in the Heisenberg picture) at different times not the same vector – i.e. particle creation occurs.

  15. Moving frames scheme • Adiabatic approximation • Mode expansion: Solve the mode functions for the stationary solenoid problem and shift them by ξ, location of moving solenoid.

  16. Moving frames scheme • Compute 0 particle to 2 particle transition amplitude

  17. Moving frames φ results • Rate carries periodic dependence on eФ • Non-relativistic

  18. Moving frames ψ results • Rate carries periodic dependence on eФ • Non-relativistic

  19. Relativistic eФ << 1 φ φ*

  20. Small AB phase: eФ << 1 φ φ* • Valid for any flux tube trajectory: Small AB phase scheme more versatile than moving frames scheme.

  21. Small AB phase: eФ << 1 φ φ*

  22. Small AB phase: eФ << 1 φ φ* • Spins of e+e- anti-correlated along direction determined by their momenta and I+ x I-.

  23. Small AB phase results

  24. eФ<<1: Total Power for Ω>>m v0 = 1 v0 = 0.1 v0 = 0.001 • ε = eФ • Similar plot for bosons.

  25. eФ<<1, Ω>>m, v0~1, kz=0, kxy=k’xy

  26. Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm z • Spacetime curvature is zero outside string. • Non-trivial QM phase due to deficit angle. gμν = ημν μ y δ = 8πGμ x

  27. Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm z • Shake a cosmic string: gravitationally induced production of all particle spieces. • Scalars • Photons • Fermions y x

  28. Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm • Shake a cosmic string: gravitationally induced production of all particle spieces. • Scalars • Photons • Fermions • Quantum scattering of cosmic background photons and neutrinos.

  29. The N-Body Problem in General Relativity from Perturbative (Quantum) Field Theory Yi-Zen Chu @ Fermilab Monday, 7 February 2011 Y.-Z.Chu, Phys. Rev. D 79: 044031, 2009 arXiv: 0812.0012 [gr-qc]

  30. n-Body Problem in GR • System of n ≥ 2 gravitationally bound compact objects: • Planets, neutron stars, black holes, etc. • What is their effective gravitational interaction?

  31. n-Body Problem in GR • Compact objects ≈ point particles • n-body problem: Dynamics for the coordinates of the point particles • Assume non-relativistic motion • GR corrections to Newtonian gravity: an expansion in (v/c)2 Nomenclature: O[(v/c)2Q] = Q PN

  32. n-Body Problem in GR • Note that General Relativity is non-linear. • Superposition does not hold • 2 body lagrangian is not sufficient to obtain n-body lagrangian Nomenclature: O[(v/c)2Q] = Q PN

  33. n-Body Problem in GR • n-body problem known up to O[(v/c)2]: • Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman lagrangian • Eqns of motion used regularly to calculate solar system dynamics, etc. • Precession of Mercury’s perihelion begins at this order • O[(v/c)4] only known partially. • Damour, Schafer (1985, 1987) • Compute using field theory? (Goldberger, Rothstein, 2004)

  34. Motivation I • Solar system probes of GR beginning to go beyond O[(v/c)2]: • New lunar laser ranging observatory APOLLO; Mars and/or Mercury laser ranging missions? • ASTROD, LATOR, GTDM, BEACON, etc. • See e.g. Turyshev (2008)

  35. Motivation I • n-body Leff gives not only dynamics but also geometry. • Add a test particle, M->0: it moves along geodesic in the spacetime metric generated by the rest of the n masses • Metric can be read off its Leff

  36. Motivation II • Gravitational wave observatories may need the 2 body Leff beyond O[(v/c)7]: • LIGO, VIRGO, etc. can track gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binaries over O[104] orbital cycles. • GWs: Need theoretical templates to integrate against raw data to search for correlations. • Construction of accurate templates requires 2 body dynamics. • Currently, 2 body dynamics known up to O[(v/c)7], i.e. 3.5 PN • See e.g. Blanchet (2006).

  37. Why (Quantum) Field Theory • Starting at 3 PN, O[(v/c)6], GR computations of 2 body Leff start to give divergences – due to the point particle approximation – that were eventually handled by dimensional regularization. • Perturbation theory beyond O[(v/c)7] requires systematic, efficient methods. • Renormalization & regularization • Computational algorithm – Feynman diagrams with appropriate dimensional analysis. QFT Offers:

  38. Dynamics: Action • GR: Einstein-Hilbert • n point particles: any scalar functional of geometric tensors, d-velocities, etc. integrated along world line

  39. Dynamics: Action • GR: Einstein-Hilbert • n point particles: any scalar functional of geometric tensors, d-velocities, etc.integrated along world line • Point particle approximation gives us computational control. • Infinite series of actions truncated based on desired accuracy of theoretical prediction.

  40. Dynamics: Action • GR: Einstein-Hilbert • n point particles: any scalar functional of geometric tensors, d-velocities, etc. integrated along world line • –M∫ds describes structureless point particle

  41. Dynamics: Action • GR: Einstein-Hilbert • n point particles: any scalar functional of geometric tensors, d-velocities, etc. integrated along world line • Non-minimal terms encode information on the non-trivial structure of individual objects.

  42. Dynamics: Action • GR: Einstein-Hilbert • n point particles: any scalar functional of geometric tensors, d-velocities, etc.integrated along world line • Coefficients {cx} have to be tuned to match physical observables from full description of objects. • E.g. n non-rotating black holes.

  43. Dynamics: Action • GR: Einstein-Hilbert • n point particles: any scalar functional of geometric tensors, d-velocities, etc. integrated along world line • For non-rotating compact objects, up to O[(v/c)8], only minimal terms -Ma∫dsa needed

  44. Perturbation Theory • Expand GR and point particle action in powers of graviton fields hμν …

  45. Perturbation Theory • Expand GR and point particle action in powers of graviton fields hμν … • ∞ terms just from Einstein-Hilbert and -Ma∫dsa.

  46. Dimensional Analysis • … but some dimensional analysis before computation makes perturbation theory much more systematic • The scales in the n-body problem • r – typical separation between n bodies. • v – typical speed of point particles • r/v – typical time scale of n-body system

  47. Dimensional Analysis • Lowest order effective action • Schematically, conservative part of effective action is a series: • Virial theorem

  48. Dimensional Analysis • Look at Re[Graviton propagator], non-relativistic limit:

  49. Dimensional Analysis • Look at Re[Graviton propagator], non-relativistic limit:

  50. Dimensional Analysis • n-graviton piece of -Ma∫dsa with χ powers of velocities scales as • n-graviton piece of Einstein-Hilbert action with ψ time derivatives scales as • With n(w) world line terms -Ma∫dsa, • With n(v) Einstein-Hilbert action terms, • With N total gravitons, • Every Feynman diagram scales as

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