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Bernabeu, J. |
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Symmetries and Their Breaking in the Fundamental Laws of Physics |
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2020 |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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12 |
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8 |
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1316 - 27pp |
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flavour families; colour charges; gauge symmetries; chirality; discrete symmetries; neutrinos; spontaneous breaking |
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Symmetries in the Physical Laws of Nature lead to observable effects. Beyond the regularities and conserved magnitudes, the last few decades in particle physics have seen the identification of symmetries, and their well-defined breaking, as the guiding principle for the elementary constituents of matter and their interactions. Flavour SU(3) symmetry of hadrons led to the Quark Model and the antisymmetric requirement under exchange of identical fermions led to the colour degree of freedom. Colour became the generating charge for flavour-independent strong interactions of quarks and gluons in the exact colour SU(3) local gauge symmetry. Parity Violation in weak interactions led us to consider the chiral fields of fermions as the objects with definite transformation properties under the weak isospin SU(2) gauge group of the Unifying Electro-Weak SU(2) x U(1) symmetry, which predicted novel weak neutral current interactions. CP-Violation led to three families of quarks opening the field of Flavour Physics. Time-reversal violation has recently been observed with entangled neutral mesons, compatible with CPT-invariance. The cancellation of gauge anomalies, which would invalidate the gauge symmetry of the quantum field theory, led to Quark-Lepton Symmetry. Neutrinos were postulated in order to save the conservation laws of energy and angular momentum in nuclear beta decay. After the ups and downs of their mass, neutrino oscillations were discovered in 1998, opening a new era about their origin of mass, mixing, discrete symmetries and the possibility of global lepton-number violation through Majorana mass terms and Leptogenesis as the source of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The experimental discovery of quarks and leptons and the mediators of their interactions, with physical observables in spectacular agreement with this Standard Theory, is the triumph of Symmetries. The gauge symmetry is exact only when the particles are massless. One needs a subtle breaking of the symmetry, providing the origin of mass without affecting the excellent description of the interactions. This is the Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism, which produces the Higgs Boson as a remnant, discovered at CERN in 2012. Open present problems are addressed with by searching the New Physics Beyond-the-Standard-Model. |
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[Bernabeu, Jose] Univ Valencia, Dept Theoret Phys, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Jose.Bernabeu@uv.es |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Benisty, D.; Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D. |
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Singularity-Free and Cosmologically Viable Born-Infeld Gravity with Scalar Matter |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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13 |
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11 |
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2108 - 24pp |
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metric-affine gravity; non-singular cosmologies; born-infeld gravity; observational constraints; scalar fields |
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The early cosmology, driven by a single scalar field, both massless and massive, in the context of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, is explored. We show the existence of nonsingular solutions of bouncing and loitering type (depending on the sign of the gravitational theory's parameter, epsilon) replacing the Big Bang singularity, and discuss their properties. In addition, in the massive case, we find some new features of the cosmological evolution depending on the value of the mass parameter, including asymmetries in the expansion/contraction phases, or a continuous transition between a contracting phase to an expanding one via an intermediate loitering phase. We also provide a combined analysis of cosmic chronometers, standard candles, BAO, and CMB data to constrain the model, finding that for roughly |epsilon|& LSIM;5 & BULL;10-8m2 the model is compatible with the latest observations while successfully removing the Big Bang singularity. This bound is several orders of magnitude stronger than the most stringent constraints currently available in the literature. |
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[Benisty, David] Univ Cambridge, Ctr Math Sci, DAMTP, Wilberforce Rd, Cambridge CB3 0WA, England, Email: benidav@post.bgu.ac.il; |
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Aldana, M.; Lledo, M.A. |
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The Fuzzy Bit |
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2023 |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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15 |
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12 |
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2103 - 25pp |
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fuzzy sets; quantum logic; multivalued logic; Quantum Mechanics |
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In this paper, the formulation of Quantum Mechanics in terms of fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets is explored. A result by Pykacz, which establishes a correspondence between (quantum) logics (lattices with certain properties) and certain families of fuzzy sets, is applied to the Birkhoff-von Neumann logic, the lattice of projectors of a Hilbert space. Three cases are considered: the qubit, two qubits entangled, and a qutrit 'nested' inside the two entangled qubits. The membership functions of the fuzzy sets are explicitly computed and all the connectives of the fuzzy sets are interpreted as operations with these particular membership functions. In this way, a complete picture of the standard quantum logic in terms of fuzzy sets is obtained for the systems considered. |
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[Aldana, Milagrosa] Univ Simon Bolivar, Dept Ciencias Tierra, Valle De Sartenejas 89000, Baruta, Venezuela, Email: maldana@usb.ve; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Agullo, I.; del Rio, A.; Navarro-Salas, J. |
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On the Electric-Magnetic Duality Symmetry: Quantum Anomaly, Optical Helicity, and Particle Creation |
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2018 |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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10 |
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12 |
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763 - 14pp |
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electric-magnetic duality symmetry; quantum anomalies; optical helicity; electromagnetic polarization; particle creation |
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It is well known that not every symmetry of a classical field theory is also a symmetry of its quantum version. When this occurs, we speak of quantum anomalies. The existence of anomalies imply that some classical Noether charges are no longer conserved in the quantum theory. In this paper, we discuss a new example for quantum electromagnetic fields propagating in the presence of gravity. We argue that the symmetry under electric-magnetic duality rotations of the source-free Maxwell action is anomalous in curved spacetimes. The classical Noether charge associated with these transformations accounts for the net circular polarization or the optical helicity of the electromagnetic field. Therefore, our results describe the way the spacetime curvature changes the helicity of photons and opens the possibility of extracting information from strong gravitational fields through the observation of the polarization of photons. We also argue that the physical consequences of this anomaly can be understood in terms of the asymmetric quantum creation of photons by the gravitational field. |
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[Agullo, Ivan] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA, Email: agullo@lsu.edu; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Aguilera-Verdugo, J.D.; Driencourt-Mangin, F.; Hernandez-Pinto, R.J.; Plenter, J.; Prisco, R.M.; Ramirez-Uribe, N.S.; Renteria-Olivo, A.E.; Rodrigo, G.; Sborlini, G.F.R.; Torres Bobadilla, W.J.; Tramontano, F. |
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A Stroll through the Loop-Tree Duality |
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2021 |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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Symmetry-Basel |
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13 |
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6 |
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1029 - 37pp |
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Feynman integrals; multi-loop calculations; perturbative QFT; higher orders |
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The Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) theorem is an innovative technique to deal with multi-loop scattering amplitudes, leading to integrand-level representations over a Euclidean space. In this article, we review the last developments concerning this framework, focusing on the manifestly causal representation of multi-loop Feynman integrals and scattering amplitudes, and the definition of dual local counter-terms to cancel infrared singularities. |
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[de Jesus Aguilera-Verdugo, Jose; Driencourt-Mangin, Felix; Plenter, Judith; Selomit Ramirez-Uribe, Norma; Ernesto Renteria-Olivo, Andres; Rodrigo, German; Sborlini, German] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cient, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: jesus.aguilera@ific.uv.es; |
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