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Reviews of Modern Physics
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July 18, 2008
The mixture of a superconductor and a superfluid--as may occur inside a neutron star--could respond to the star's magnetic field in ways never seen in earthly superconductors, according to a new theory. The strange material doesn't fit into the two standard superconducting categories.
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The timeline features events related to the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, as well as seminal developments in physics after 1893. We also list a few important papers published by the journals. Each week, papers published in PRL will be highlighted separately as Milestone Letters.
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Immanuel Bloch, Jean Dalibard, and Wilhelm Zwerger
This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical progress concerning many-body phenomena in dilute, ultracold gases. It focuses on effects beyond standard weak-coupling descriptions, such as the Mott-Hubbard transition in optical lattices, strongly interacting gases in one and two dimensions, ...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 885
] Published Fri Jul 18, 2008
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Reto B. Schoch, Jongyoon Han, and Philippe Renaud
The transport of fluid in and around nanometer-sized objects with at least one characteristic dimension below 100 nm enables the occurrence of phenomena that are impossible at bigger length scales. This research field was only recently termed nanofluidics, but it has deep roots in science a...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 839
] Published Thu Jul 17, 2008
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Dieter Drechsel and Thomas Walcher
This review deals with the structure of hadrons, strongly interacting many-body systems consisting of quarks and gluons. These systems have a size of about 1 fm , which shows up in scattering experiments at low momentum transfers Q in the GeV region. At this scale the running coupling cons...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 731
] Published Tue Jul 1, 2008
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Luís C. Crispino, Atsushi Higuchi, and George E. Matsas
It has been 30 years since the discovery of the Unruh effect. It has played a crucial role in our understanding that the particle content of a field theory is observer dependent. This effect is important in its own right and as a way to understand the phenomenon of particle emission from bl...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 787
] Published Tue Jul 1, 2008
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Peter J. Mohr, Barry N. Taylor, and David B. Newell
This paper gives the 2006 self-consistent set of values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) for international use. Further, it describes in detail the adjustment of the values of the constants...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 633
] Published Fri Jun 6, 2008
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Tarek Ibrahim and Pran Nath
A review of CP violation from the standard model to strings is given which includes a broad landscape of particle physics models, encompassing the nonsupersymmetric four-dimensional (4D) extensions of the standard model, and models based on supersymmetry, on extra dimensions, on strings, and on br...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 577
] Published Thu May 22, 2008
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Luigi Amico, Rosario Fazio, Andreas Osterloh, and Vlatko Vedral
Recent interest in aspects common to quantum information and condensed matter has prompted a flurry of activity at the border of these disciplines that were far distant until a few years ago. Numerous interesting questions have been addressed so far. Here an important part of this field, the propert...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 517
] Published Tue May 6, 2008
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Frank T. Avignone, Steven R. Elliott, and Jonathan Engel
The theoretical and experimental issues relevant to neutrinoless double beta decay are reviewed. The impact that a direct observation of this exotic process would have on elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology is profound. Now that neutrinos are known to have mass ...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 481
] Published Wed Apr 9, 2008
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Ralf Bulla, Theo A. Costi, and Thomas Pruschke
In the early 1970s, Wilson developed the concept of a fully nonperturbative renormalization group transformation. When applied to the Kondo problem, this numerical renormalization group (NRG) method gave for the first time the full crossover from the high-temperature phase of a free spin to the low-...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 395
] Published Wed Apr 2, 2008
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E. Gargioni and B. Grosswendt
The demand for coherent scattering data for modeling electron transport in matter has increased in recent years. While much effort has been devoted to the improvement of models describing electron transport and scattering, the updating of fundamental data sets on the basis of recent experimental res...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 451
] Published Wed Apr 2, 2008
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M. I. Katsnelson, V. Yu. Irkhin, L. Chioncel, A. I. Lichtenstein, and R. A. de Groot
A review of new developments in theoretical and experimental electronic-structure investigations of half-metallic ferromagnets (HMFs) is presented. Being semiconductors for one spin projection and metals for another, these substances are promising magnetic materials for applications in spintronics (...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 315
] Published Tue Apr 1, 2008
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R. Shankar
Quantum dots pose a problem where one must confront three obstacles: randomness, interactions, and finite size. Yet it is this confluence that allows one to make some theoretical advances by invoking three theoretical tools: random matrix theory, the renormalization group, and the 1∕N expansion....
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 379
] Published Tue Apr 1, 2008
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Dževad Belkić, Ivan Mančev, and Jocelyn Hanssen
The progress in solving problems involving nonrelativistic fast ion (atom)-atom collisions with two actively participating electrons is reviewed. Such processes involve, e.g., (i) scattering between a bare nucleus (projectile) P of charge ZP and a heliumlike atomic system consisting of two elect...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 249
] Published Fri Jan 4, 2008
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Gene D. Sprouse
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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Stephan Kümmel and Leeor Kronik
This review provides a perspective on the use of orbital-dependent functionals, which is currently considered one of the most promising avenues in modern density-functional theory. The focus here is on four major themes: the motivation for orbital-dependent functionals in terms of limitations of sem...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 3
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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M. Kleman and J. Friedel
Disclinations were first observed in mesomorphic phases. They were later found relevant to a number of ill-ordered condensed-matter media involving continuous symmetries or frustrated order. Disclinations also appear in polycrystals at the edges of grain boundaries; but they are of limited interest ...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 61
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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Carsten Winterfeldt, Christian Spielmann, and Gustav Gerber
High-harmonic generation provides an attractive light source of coherent radiation in the extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) and soft-x-ray regions of the spectrum and allows for the production of single attosecond pulses or pulse trains. This Colloquium covers the control of high-harmonic spectra by tempora...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 117
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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Michael Zwolak and Massimiliano Di Ventra
With the continued improvement of sequencing technologies, the prospect of genome-based medicine is now at the forefront of scientific research. To realize this potential, however, a revolutionary sequencing method is needed for the cost-effective and rapid interrogation of individual genomes. This ...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 141
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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Michael Kastner
Equilibrium phase transitions may be defined as nonanalytic points of thermodynamic functions, e.g., of the canonical free energy. Given a certain physical system, it is of interest to understand which properties of the system account for the presence, or the absence, of a phase transition, and an i...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 167
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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Omar Benhar, Donal Day, and Ingo Sick
This paper presents a review on the field of inclusive quasielastic electron-nucleus scattering. It discusses the approach used to measure the data and includes a compilation of data available in numerical form. The theoretical approaches used to interpret the data are presented. A number of results...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 189
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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Itamar Procaccia, Victor S. L’vov, and Roberto Benzi
The flow of fluids in channels, pipes, or ducts, as in any other wall-bounded flow (like water along the hulls of ships or air on airplanes) is hindered by a drag, which increases manyfold when the fluid flow turns from laminar to turbulent. A major technological problem is how to reduce this drag i...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 225
] Published Wed Jan 2, 2008
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L. W. Bruch, R. D. Diehl, and J. A. Venables
This review describes progress in the field of physisorption. Significant advances in the knowledge of microscopic structures and interactions of weakly bound adsorbates are reviewed, including the first studies for the adsorption sites of rare gases on flat metal surfaces and at surface steps, the ...
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1381
] Published Wed Nov 21, 2007
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R. Hanson, L. P. Kouwenhoven, J. R. Petta, S. Tarucha, and L. M. Vandersypen
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1455
] Published Wed Nov 21, 2007
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George F. Smoot
[Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1349
] Published Fri Nov 2, 2007
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Papers recently accepted for publication in Reviews of Modern Physics (view more).
Colloquium: Andreev reflection and Klein tunneling in graphene
C. W. J. Beenakker
This is a colloquium-style introduction to two electronic processes in a carbon monolayer (graphene), each having an analogue in relativistic quantum mechanics. Both processes couple electron-like and hole-like states, through the action of either a superconducting pair potential or an electrostatic potential. The first process, Andreev reflection, is the electron-to-hole conversion at the interface with a superconductor. The second process, Klein tunneling, is the tunneling through a p-n junction. The absence of backscattering, characteristic of massless Dirac fermions, implies that both processes happen with unit efficiency at normal incidence. Away from normal incidence, retro-reflection in the first process corresponds to negative refraction in the second process. In the quantum Hall effect, both Andreev reflection and Klein tunneling induce the same dependence of the two-terminal conductance plateau on the valley isospin of the carriers. Existing and proposed experiments on Josephson junctions and bipolar junctions in graphene are discussed from a unified perspective.
Accepted Wed Jul 2, 2008
Colloquium: Unusual resonators: Plasmonics, metamaterials, and random media
Konstantin Yu. Bliokh, Yury P. Bliokh, Valentin Freilikher, Sergey Savelev and Franco Nori
Superresolution, extraordinary transmission, total absorption, and localization of electromagnetic waves are currently attracting growing attention. These phenomena are related to different physical systems and are usually studied within the context of different, sometimes rather sophisticated, approaches. Remarkably, all these seemingly unrelated phenomena owe their origin to the same underlying physical mechanism - wave interaction with an open resonator. Here we show that it is possible to describe all of these effects in a unified way, mapping each system onto a simple resonator model. Such description provides a thorough understanding of the phenomena, explains all the main features of their complex behavior, and enables to control the system via the resonator parameters: eigenfrequencies, Q-factors, and coupling coefficients.
Accepted Fri Apr 25, 2008
Colloquium: Quantum annealing and analog quantum computation
Arnab Das and Bikas K. Chakrabarti
We review here the recent success in quantum annealing, i.e., optimization of the cost or energy functions of complex systems utilizing quantum fluctuations. The concept is introduced in successive steps through the studies of mapping of such computationally hard problems to the classical spin glass problems. The quantum spin glass problems arise with the introduction of quantum fluctuations, and the annealing behavior of the systems as these fluctuations are reduced slowly to zero. This provides a general framework for realizing analog quantum computation.
Accepted Tue Apr 15, 2008
Attosecond physics
Ferenc Krausz and Misha Ivanov
Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and measurement as well as relevant theoretical modelling are reviewed on the pages of Reviews of Modern Physics (Brabec and Krausz, 2000). Since then, measurement and control of the sub-cycle field evolution of few-cycle light have opened the doorto a radically new approach to exploring and controlling processes of the microcosm. The hyperfast varying electric field of visible light permitted steering and clocking of the motion of electrons on the atomic scale. Striking implications include controlled generation and measurement of single sub-fs pulses of extreme ultraviolet light as well as trains of them and real-time observation of atomic-scale electron dynamics. The tools and techniques for steering and chasing electronic motion in atoms, molecules and nanostructures are now becoming available, marking the birth of attosecond physics. In this article we review these advances and address some of the expected implications.
Accepted Tue Jun 3, 2008
Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases
Stefano Giorgini, Lev P. Pitaevskii and Sandro Stringari
The physics of quantum degenerate Fermi gases in uniform as well as in harmonically trapped configurations is reviewed from a theoretical perspective. Emphasis is given to the effect of interactions which play a crucial role, bringing the gas into a superfluid phase at low temperature. In these dilute systems interactions are characterized by a single parameter, the $s$-wave scattering length, whose value can be tuned using an external magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. The BCS limit of ordinary Fermi superfluidity, the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of dimers and the unitary limit of large scattering length are important regimes exhibited by interacting Fermi gases. In particular the BEC and the unitary regimes are characterized by a high value of the superfluid critical temperature, of the order of the Fermi temperature. Different physical properties are discussed, including the density profiles and the energy of the ground-state configurations, the momentum distribution, the fraction of condensed pairs, collective oscillations and pair breaking effects, the expansion of the gas, the main thermodynamic properties, the behavior in the presence of optical lattices and the signatures of superfluidity, such as the existence of quantized vortices, the quenching of the moment of inertia and the consequences of spin polarization. Various theoretical approaches are considered, ranging from the mean-field description of the BCS-BEC crossover to non-perturbative methods based on quantum Monte Carlo techniques. A major goal of the review is to compare the theoretical predictions with the available experimental results.
Accepted Fri Apr 4, 2008
Critical phenomena in complex networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev and J. F. F. Mendes
The combination of the compactness of networks, featuring small diameters, and their complex architectures results in a variety of critical effects dramatically different from those in cooperative systems on lattices. In the last few years, researchers have made important steps toward understanding the qualitatively new critical phenomena in complex networks. We review the results, concepts, and methods of this rapidly developing field. Here we mostly consider two closely related classes of these critical phenomena, namely structural phase transitions in the network architectures and transitions in cooperative models on networks as substrates. We also discuss systems where a network and interacting agents on it influence each other. We overview a wide range of critical phenomena in equilibrium and growing networks including the birth of the giant connected component, percolation, k-core percolation, phenomena near epidemic thresholds, condensation transitions, critical phenomena in spin models placed on networks, synchronization, and self-organized criticality effects in interacting systems on networks. We also discuss strong finite size effects in these systems and highlight open problems and perspectives.
Accepted Wed May 14, 2008
The electronic properties of graphene
Castro Neto A. H., F. Guinea, N. M. R. Peres, K. S. Novoselov and A. K. Geim
This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric and magnetic fields, or by altering sample geometry and/or topology. We show that the Dirac electrons behave in unusual ways in tunneling, confinement, and integer quantum Hall effect. We discuss the electronic properties of graphene stacks and show that they vary with stacking order and number of layers. Edge (surface) states in graphene are strongly dependent on the edge termination (zigzag or armchair) and affect the physical properties of nanoribbons. We also discuss how different types of disorder modify the Dirac equation leading to unusual spectroscopic and transport properties. The effects of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in single layer and multilayer graphene are also presented.
Accepted Fri Jul 18, 2008
Defects in correlated metals and superconductors
H. Alloul, J. Bobroff, M. Gabay and P. J. Hirschfeld
In materials with strong local Coulomb interactions, simple defects such as atomic substitutions strongly affect both macroscopic and local properties of the system. A nonmagnetic impurity, for instance, is seen to induce magnetism nearby. Even without disorder, models of such correlated systems are generally not soluble in 2 or 3 dimensions, and so few exact results are known for the properties of such impurities. Nevertheless, some simple physical ideas have emerged from experiments and approximate theories. Here, we first review what we can learn about this problem from 1D antiferromagnetically correlated systems. We then discuss experiments on the high Tc cuprate normal state which probe the effect of impurities on local charge and spin degrees of freedom, and compare with theories of single impurities in correlated hosts, as well as phenomenological effective Kondo descriptions. Subsequently, we review theories of impurities in d-wave superconductors including residual quasiparticle interactions, and compare with experiments in the superconducting state. We argue that existing data exhibit a remarkable similarity to impurity-induced magnetism in the 1D case, implying the importance of electronic correlations for the understanding of these phenomena, and suggesting that impurities may provide excellent probes of the still poorly understood ground state of the cuprates.
Accepted Mon Jul 14, 2008
Anderson transitions
Ferdinand Evers and Alexander D. Mirlin
The physics of Anderson transitions between localized and metallic phases in disordered systems is reviewed. The term "Anderson transition" is understood in a broad sense, including both metal-insulator transitions and quantum-Hall-type transitions between phases with localized states. The emphasis is put on recent developments, which include: multifractality of critical wave functions, criticality in the power-law random banded matrix model, symmetry classification of disordered electronic systems, mechanisms of criticality in quasi-one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems and survey of corresponding critical theories, network models, and random Dirac Hamiltonians. Analytical approaches are complemented by advanced numerical simulations.
Accepted Mon May 5, 2008
Finite size scaling of ^{4}He at the superfluid transition
Francis M. Gasparini, Mark O. Kimball, Kevin P. Mooney and Manuel Diaz Avila
We review experimental results for confined \hefour\ that are relevant to correlation-length scaling near the superfluid transition. Data are discussed for which the uniform confinement represents dimensionality crossover from three dimensions (3D) to 2D, 1D, and 0D. In addition, data for the onset of superfluidity are discussed representing 2D to 1D crossover. Collectively, these data for the specific heat, superfluid density, and thermal conductivity, yield, in some cases, excellent agreement with expectations of correlation-length scaling and, in others, surprising disagreements. This is especially true in the case of 3D to 2D crossover where data are most plentiful. Here, there is a clear distinction between scaling when the confined helium is normal and the lack of scaling when helium becomes superfluid. By far the most problematic result is the lack of scaling for the superfluid density for 3D to 2D crossover and, to some extent, for 3D to 1D crossover. We point out that connectivity and proximity effects can be identified with some data. These might explain some experimental results and present opportunities for further studies of weakly coupled superfluid regions. Measurements to test the universality of finite-size effects along the superfluid transition lines as function of pressure and \hethree\ concentration are also discussed. In the case of the specific heat, data indicate that the non-universal behavior of the critical exponent $\alpha$, obtained from bulk measurements, is responsible for the observation of a distinct scaling locus for confined pure \hefour\ versus that of the confined mixtures.
Accepted Tue Mar 4, 2008
Non Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation
Chetan Nayak, Steven H. Simon, Ady Stern, Michael Freedman and Das Das Sarma Sankar
Topological quantum computation has recently emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of topological states of matter whose quasiparticle excitations are neither bosons nor fermions, but are particles known as Non-Abelian anyons, meaning that they obey non-Abelian braiding statistics. Quantum information is stored in states with multiple quasiparticles, which have a topological degeneracy. The unitary gate operations which are necessary for quantum computation are carried out by braiding quasiparticles, and then measuring the multi-quasiparticle states. The fault-tolerance of a topological quantum computer arises from the non-local encoding of the states of the quasiparticles, which makes them immune to errors caused by local perturbations. To date, the only such topological states thought to have been found in nature are fractional quantum Hall states, most prominently the n = 5/2 state, although several other prospective candidates have been proposed in systems as disparate as ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices and thin film superconductors. In this review article, we describe current research in this field, focusing on the general theoretical concepts of non-Abelian statistics as it relates to topological quantum computation, on understanding non-Abelian quantum Hall states, on proposed experiments to detect non-Abelian anyons, and on proposed architectures for a topological quantum computer. We address both the mathematical underpinnings of topological quantum computation and the physics of the subject using the n = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state as the archetype of a non-Abelian topological state enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Accepted Fri Jan 11, 2008
Quarkonia and their transitions
Estia Eichten, Stephen Godfrey, Hanna Mahlke and Jonathan L. Rosner
Valuable data on quarkonia (the bound states of a heavy quark Q=c,b and the corresponding antiquark) have recently been provided by a variety of sources, mainly e+ e- collisions, but also hadronic interactions. This permits a thorough updating of the experimental and theoretical status of electromagnetic and strong transitions in quarkonia. We discuss Q [`Q] transitions to other Q [`Q] states, with some reference to processes involving Q [`Q] annihilation.
Accepted Mon Mar 24, 2008
Color superconductivity in dense quark matter
Mark G. Alford, Andreas Schmitt, Krishna Rajagopal and Thomas Schafer
Accepted Fri Jun 13, 2008
Waiting for precise measurements of K^{+}\rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu \bar{\nu} and K_{L} \rightarrow \pi^{0} \nu \bar{\nu}
Andrzej J. Buras, Selma Uhlig and Felix Schwab
In view of future plans for accurate measurements of the theoretically clean branching ratios Br(\kpn) and Br(\klpn), that should take place in the next decade, we collect the relevant formulae for quantities of interest and analyze their theoretical and parametric uncertainties. We point out that in addition to the angle b in the unitarity triangle (UT) also the angle g can in principle be determined from these decays with respectable precision and emphasize in this context the importance of the recent NNLO QCD calculation of the charm contribution to \kpn and of the improved estimate of the long distance contribution by means of chiral perturbation theory. In addition to known expressions we present several new ones that should allow transparent tests of the Standard Model (SM) and of its extensions. While our presentation is centered around the SM, we also discuss models with minimal flavour violation and scenarios with new complex phases in decay amplitudes and meson mixing. We give a brief review of existing results within specific extensions of the SM, in particular the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity, Z models, the MSSM and a model with one universal extra dimension. We derive a new "golden" relation between B and K systems that involves (b,g) and Br(\klpn) and investigate the virtues of (Rt,b), (Rb,g), (b,g) and ([`(h)],g) strategies for the UT in the context of Kpn[`(n)] decays with the goal of testing the SM and its extensions.
Accepted Fri Feb 8, 2008
Conifolds and geometric transitions
Rhiannon Gwyn and Anke Knauf
Conifold geometries have recieved a lot of attention in string theory and string-inspired cosmology recently, in particular the Klebanov-Strassler background that is known as the "warped throat". It is our intention in this article to give a pedagogical explanation for the singularity resolution in this geometry and emphasise its connection to geometric transitions. The first part focuses on the gauge theory dual to the Klebanov-Strassler background, which we also explain from a T-dual intersecting branes scenario. We then make the connection to the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture for open/closed string duality and summarise a series of papers verifying this model on the supergravity level. An appendix provides extensive background material about conifold geometries. We pay special attention to their complex structures and re-evaluate the supersymmetry conditions on the background flux in constructions with fractional D3-branes on the singular (Klebanov-Tseytlin) and resolved (Pando Zayas-Tseytlin) conifolds. We agree with earlier results that only the singular solution allows a supersymmetric flux, but point out the importance of using the correct complex structure to reach this conclusion.
Accepted Mon Jul 7, 2008
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