Blocking transformation is performed in quantum field theory at finite temperature. It is found that the manner temperature deforms the renormalized trajectories can be used to understand better the role played by the quantum fluctuations. In particular, it is conjectured that domain formation and mass parameter generation can be observed in theories without spontaneous symmetry breaking. CTP#2...

Using Trades and Quotes data from the Paris stock market, we show that the random walk nature of traded prices results from a very delicate interplay between two opposite tendencies: strongly correlated market orders that lead to super-diffusion (or persistence), and mean reverting limit orders that lead to sub-diffusion (or anti-persistence). We define and study a model where the price, at any...

We present a theory describing the superconducting (SC) interaction of Dirac electrons in a quasi-two-dimensional system consisting of a stack of N planes. The occurrence of a SC phase is investigated both at T = 0 and T 6= 0, in the case of a local interaction, when the theory must be renormalized and also in the situation where a natural physical cutoff is present in the system. In both cases...

Fate of light hadronic excitations above the critical temperature Tc of the QCD phase transition was first investigated 20 years ago.1,2 In Ref. 1 whose title is “Fluctuation effects in hot quark matter: precursors of chiral transition at finite temperature”, the hadrinic modes above Tc were discussed in connection with the critical fluctuation associated with chiral symmetry restoration: The a...

Using conformal field theory methods we construct a metric that describes the distortion of space-time surrounding a D~irichlet!-brane ~solitonic! defect after being struck by another D-brane. By viewing our four-dimensional universe as such a struck brane, embedded in a five-dimensional space-time, we argue on the appearance of a band of massive Kaluza-Klein excitations for the bulk graviton w...

The temperature dependence of static dielectric susceptibility of a strongly coupled dipolar system is calculated with self consistent mean fluctuation field approximation. Results are qualitatively in good agreement with, quantum paraelectric, SrTiO3 in the low temperature regime; and identify the system as a “gaped quantum paraelectric” near its quantum critical point. Quantum scaling along w...

A lattice Boltzmann model is proposed to asses the impact of variable molecular transport effects on the heat and mass transfer in a horizontal shallow cavity due to natural convection. The formulation includes a generalized form of the Soret and Dufour mass and heat diffusion (cross diffusion) vectors derived from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and fluctuation theory. Both the individual cross...

We derive constraints on the mass-temperature relation of galaxy clusters from their observed luminosity-temperature relation and X-ray temperature function. Adopting the isothermal gas in hydrostatic equilibrium embedded in the universal density profile of dark matter halos, we compute the X-ray luminosity for clusters as a function of their hosting halo mass. We find that in order to reproduc...

A salient dynamic property of social media is bursting behavior. In this paper, we study bursting behavior in terms of the temporal relation between a preceding baseline fluctuation and the successive burst response using a frequency time series of 3,000 keywords on Twitter. We found that there is a fluctuation threshold up to which the burst size increases as the fluctuation increases and that...

Interfacial fluctuation effects occuring at wedge and cone filling transitions are investigated and shown to exhibit very different characteristics. For both geometries we show how the conditions for observing critical (continuous) filling are much less restrictive than for critical wetting, which is known to require fine tuning of the Hamaker constants. Wedge filling is critical if the wetting...