The frequency separations of stellar p-modes
The purpose of this work is to investigate the characteristics of a new frequency separation of stellar p-modes.  Frequency separations are deduced from the asymptotic formula of stellar p-modes. Then, using the theoretical adiabatic frequencies of stellar model, we compute the frequency separations.  A new separation sigma(l-1l+ 1)( n), which is similar to the scaled small separation d(ll+ 2)( n)/(2l + 3), is obtained from the asymptotic formula of stellar p-modes. The separations sigma(l-1l+ 1)( n) and d(ll+ 2)( n)/(2l+ 3) have the same order. And like the small separation, sigma(l)-(1l+ 1)( n) is mainly sensitive to the conditions in the stellar core. However, with the decrease in the central hydrogen abundance of stars, the separations sigma(02) and rho(13) deviate more and more from the scaled small separation. This characteristic could be used to extract the information on the central hydrogen abundance of stars.

title: Solar models with revised abundances and opacities
abstract: Using reconstructed opacities, we construct solar models with low heavy-element abundance. Rotational mixing and enhanced diffusion of helium and heavy elements are used to reconcile the recently observed abundances with helioseismology. The sound speed and density of models in which the relative and absolute diffusion coefficients for helium and heavy elements have been increased agree with seismically inferred values at better than the 0.005 and 0.02 fractional levels, respectively. However, the surface helium abundance of the enhanced diffusion model is too low. The low-helium problem in the enhanced diffusion model can be solved to a great extent by rotational mixing. The surface helium and the convection zone depth of rotating model M04R3, which has a surface Z of 0.0154, agree with the seismic results at the levels of 1 sigma and 3 sigma, respectively. M04R3 is almost as good as the standard model M98. Some discrepancies between the models constructed in accord with the new element abundances and seismic constraints can be solved individually, but it seems difficult to resolve them as a whole.

title: Asteroseismic constraints on the OPAL opacity interpolation
abstract: The frequency difference between a model used only two-point interpolation of opacity and a model used piecewise linear interpolation of opacity is of the order of several microHertz at a certain stage, which is almost 10 times worse than the observational precision of p-modes of solar-like stars. Therefore, the two-point interpolation of opacity is unsuitable in modelling of solar-like stars with element diffusion.

title: Domain wall partition function of the eight-vertex model with a non-diagonal reflecting end
abstract: With the help of the Drinfeld twist or factorizing F-matrix for the eight-vertex SOS model, we derive the recursion relations of the partition function for the eight-vertex model with a generic non-diagonal reflecting end and domain wall boundary condition. Solving the recursion relations, we obtain the explicit determinant expression of the partition function. Our result shows that, contrary to the eight-vertex model without a reflecting end, the partition function can be expressed as a single determinant.

title: Decay constants of the pseudoscalar mesons in the framework of the coupled Schwinger–Dyson equation and Bethe–Salpeter equation
abstract: In this article, we investigate the structures of the pseudoscalar mesons ( π , K , D , D s , B and B s ) in the framework of the coupled rainbow Schwinger–Dyson equation and ladder Bethe–Salpeter equation with the confining effective potential (infrared modified flat bottom potential). The Schwinger–Dyson functions for the u , d and s quarks are greatly renormalized at small momentum region and the curves are steep at about q 2 = 1 GeV 2 which indicates an explicitly dynamical symmetry breaking. The Euclidean time Fourier transformed quark propagators have no mass poles in the time-like region which naturally implements confinement. As for the c and b quarks, the current masses are very large, the renormalization are more tender, however, mass poles in the time-like region are also absent. The Bethe–Salpeter wavefunctions for those mesons have the same type (Gaussian type) momentum dependence and center around small momentum which indicate that the bound states exist in the infrared region. The decay constants for those pseudoscalar mesons are compatible with the values of experimental extractions and theoretical calculations, such as lattice simulations and QCD sum rules.

title: Quantum correlations with vacuum ambiguity in de Sitter space
abstract: We study the quantum correlations of free scalar field with vacuum ambiguity of de Sitter space. We show the occurrence of degradation of quantum entanglement and quantum discord between field modes for inertial observer in curved space due to the radiation associated with cosmological horizon. In particular, we find that quantum correlations can be used to encode infinite de Sitter invariant vacua, which correspond to infinite set of possible physical worlds. This may provide a superselection rule of physical vacuum via quantum information tasks. We also discuss the simulation of such quantum effects of vacuum ambiguity in ion trap experiments.

title: Drinfeld twists of the open XXZ chain with non-diagonal boundary terms
abstract: The Drinfeld twists or factorizing F-matrices for the open XXZ spin chain with non-diagonal boundary terms are constructed. It is shown that in the F-basis the two sets of pseudo-particle creation operators simultaneously take completely symmetric and polarization free form. The explicit and completely symmetric expressions of the two sets of Bethe states of the model are obtained.

title: A conformally broken system as the constrained SL(2,R) WZNW model, its integrability and dressing symmetry
abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of the conformally broken system related to the conformally invariant SL(2,R) WZNW model. Our starting point is such an action that is similar in form to the action of gauged WZNW theories developed by Balog et al. (1990). However, the Lagrangian multipliers in our case are assumed to take their values on the mixing of upper and lower Borel subalgebras of sl(2). The system obtained turns out to be an off-conformal extension of the sinh-Gordon model. Its integrability is displayed by the Lax formalism with an arbitrary spectral parameter, the classical r-matrix, and the hidden dressing symmetry.