The Wheres of Electrons

Aldert van der Ziel

Classically, the thermal noise in electricalRCcircuits andLCRseries circuits is governed by the equipartition law\frac{1}{2}\overline{CV^{2}} = \frac{1}{2}kT, whereV(t)is the noise voltage developed acrossC. When quantum effects are taken into account, the equipartition law no longer holds forRCcircuits, although an equipartition law can be deemed for the measured mean square noise voltage under certain conditions. InLCRseries circuits the equipartition law\frac{1}{2}\overline{CV^{2}} = \frac{1}{2}kT, changes into\frac{1}{2}\overline{CV^{2}} = \frac{1}{2}\bar{E}(f_{0})for high-Qtuned circuits, where\bar{E}(f_{0})is the average energy of a harmonic oscillator tuned at the tuning frequency of the tuned circuit.

Thomas P. Pearsall

Thomas P. Pearsall

Evgeny A. Kuznetsov, M. Yu. Kagan

In the framework of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we consider the problem of the expansion of quantum gases into a vacuum. For them, the chemical potential μ has a power-law dependence on the density n with the exponent ν = 2/D, whereD is the space dimension. For gas condensates of Bose atoms as the temperature T → 0, s scattering gives the main contribution to the interaction of atoms in the leading order in the gas parameter. Therefore, the exponent ν = 1 for an arbitrary D. In the three-dimensional case, ν = 2/3 is realized for condensates of Fermi atoms in the so-called unitary limit. For ν = 2/D, the Gross-Pitaevskii equation has an additional symmetry under Talanov transformations of the conformal type, which were first found for the stationary self-focusing of light. A consequence of this symmetry is the virial theorem relating the average size R of an expanding gas cloud to its Hamiltonian. The quantity R asymptotically increases linearly with time as t →∞. In the semiclassical limit, the equations of motion coincide with those of the hydrodynamics of an ideal gas with the adiabatic exponent γ = 1+2/D. In this approximations, self-similar solutions describe angular deformations of the gas cloud against the background of the expanding gas in the framework of equations of the Ermakov-Ray-Reid type.

Thomas P. Pearsall

Raphaël Dulac, Zixia Wei

A bstract Elliptic de Sitter (dS) spacetime dS/ ℤ 2 is a non-time-orientable spacetime obtained by imposing an antipodal identification to global dS. Unlike QFT on global dS, whose vacuum state can be prepared by a no-boundary Euclidean path integral, the Euclidean elliptic dS does not define a wavefunction in the usual sense. We propose instead that the path integral on the Euclidean elliptic dS defines a no-boundary density matrix. As an explicit example, we study the free Dirac fermion CFT in two-dimensional elliptic dS and analytically compute the von Neumann and the Rényi entropies of this density matrix. The calculation reduces to correlation functions of vertex operators on non-orientable surfaces. As a by-product, we compute the time evolution of entanglement entropy following a crosscap quench in free Dirac fermion CFT. We also comment on a striking feature of free QFT in elliptic dS: its global Hilbert space is one-dimensional, wheres the Hilbert space associated to each observer is a nontrivial Fock space.