On condensation properties of Bethe roots associated with the XXZ chain

I prove that the Bethe roots describing either the ground state or a certain class of "particle-hole" excited states of the XXZ spin-$1/2$ chain in any sector with magnetisation $\mathfrak{m} \in [0;1/2]$ exist and form, in the infinite volume limit, a dense distribution on a subinterval of $\mathbb{R}$. The results holds for any value of the anisotropy $\Delta \geq -1$. In fact, I establish an even stronger result, namely the existence of an all order asymptotic expansion of the counting function associated with such roots. As a corollary, these results allow one to prove the existence and form of the infinite volume limit of various observables attached to the model -the excitation energy, momentum, the zero temperature correlation functions, so as to name a few- that were argued earlier in the literature.Comment: 54 pages, 2 figures. Some details in proof adde

On lacunary Toeplitz determinants

By using Riemann--Hilbert problem based techniques, we obtain the asymptotic expansion of lacunary Toeplitz determinants $\det_N\big[ c_{\ell_a-m_b}[f] \big]$ generated by holomorhpic symbols, where $\ell_a=a$ (resp. $m_b=b$) except for a finite subset of indices $a=h_1,\dots, h_n$ (resp. $b=t_1,\dots, t_r$). In addition to the usual Szeg\"{o} asymptotics, our answer involves a determinant of size $n+r$.Comment: 11 page

On singularities of dynamic response functions in the massless regime of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain

This work extracts, by means of an exact analysis, the singular behaviour of the dynamical response functions -- the Fourier transforms of dynamical two-point functions -- in the vicinity of the various excitation thresholds in the massless regime of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain. The analysis yields the edge exponents and associated amplitudes which describe the local behaviour of the response function near a threshold. The singular behaviour is derived starting from first principle considerations: the method of analysis \textit{does not rely, at any stage}, on some hypothetical correspondence with a field theory or other phenomenological approaches. The analysis builds on the massless form factor expansion for the response functions of the XXZ chain obtained recently by the author. It confirms the non-linear Luttinger based predictions relative to the power-law behaviour and of the associated edge exponents which arise in the vicinity of the dispersion relation of one massive excitation (hole, particle or bound state). In addition, the present analysis shows that, due to the lack of strict convexity of the particles dispersion relation and due to the presence of slow velocity branches of the bound states, there exist excitation thresholds with a different structure of edge exponents. These origin from multi-particle/hole/bound state excitations maximising the energy at fixed momentum.Comment: 115 pages, 6 figure

Fine structure of the asymptotic expansion of cyclic integrals

The asymptotic expansion of $n$-dimensional cyclic integrals was expressed as a series of functionals acting on the symmetric function involved in the cyclic integral. In this article, we give an explicit formula for the action of these functionals on a specific class of symmetric functions. These results are necessary for the computation of the O(1) part in the long-distance asymptotic behavior of correlation functions in integrable models.Comment: 13 page

Surface free energy of the open XXZ spin-1/2 chain

We study the boundary free energy of the XXZ spin-\tf{1}{2} chain subject to diagonal boundary fields. We first show that the representation for its finite Trotter number approximant obtained by Bortz, Frahm and G\"{o}hmann is related to the partition function of the six-vertex model with reflecting ends. Building on the Tsuchiya determinant representation for the latter quantity we are able to take the infinite Trotter number limit. This yields a representation for the surface free energy which involves the solution of the non-linear integral equation that governs the thermodynamics of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain subject to periodic boundary conditions. We show that this integral representation allows one to extract the low-$T$ asymptotic behavior of the boundary magnetization at finite external magnetic field on the one hand and numerically plot this function on the other hand.Comment: 35 pages, 11 figures, V3: some new plots adde

Asymptotic behaviour of two-point functions in multi-species models

We extract the long-distance asymptotic behaviour of two-point correlation functions in massless quantum integrable models containing multi-species excitations. For such a purpose, we extend to these models the method of a large-distance regime re-summation of the form factor expansion of correlation functions. The key feature of our analysis is a technical hypothesis on the large-volume behaviour of the form factors of local operators in such models. We check the validity of this hypothesis on the example of the $SU(3)$-invariant XXX magnet by means of the determinant representations for the form factors of local operators in this model. Our approach confirms the structure of the critical exponents obtained previously for numerous models solvable by the nested Bethe Ansatz.Comment: 45 pages, 1 figur