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Limits on the brane fluctuations mass and on the brane tension scale from electron-positron colliders
In the context of the brane-world scenarios with compactified large extra
dimensions, we study the production of the possible massive brane oscillations
(branons) in electron-positron colliders. We compute their contribution to the
electroweak gauge bosons decay width and to the single-photon and single-Z
processes. With LEP-I results and assuming non observation at LEP-II, we
present exclusion plots for the brane tension and the branon mass
. Prospects for the next generation of electron-positron colliders are also
considered.Comment: LaTeX, 38 pages, 7 figures. Minor changes, matches published versio
Antiresonance and interaction-induced localization in spin and qubit chains with defects
We study a spin chain with an anisotropic XXZ coupling in an external field.
Such a chain models several proposed types of a quantum computer. The chain
contains a defect with a different on-site energy. The interaction between
excitations is shown to lead to two-excitation states localized next to the
defect. In a resonant situation scattering of excitations on each other might
cause decay of an excitation localized on the defect. We find that destructive
quantum interference suppresses this decay. Numerical results confirm the
analytical predictions.Comment: Updated versio
Exactly Solvable Interacting Spin-Ice Vertex Model
A special family of solvable five-vertex model is introduced on a square
lattice. In addition to the usual nearest neighbor interactions, the vertices
defining the model also interact alongone of the diagonals of the lattice. Such
family of models includes in a special limit the standard six-vertex model. The
exact solution of these models gives the first application of the matrix
product ansatz introduced recently and applied successfully in the solution of
quantum chains. The phase diagram and the free energy of the models are
calculated in the thermodynamic limit. The models exhibit massless phases and
our analyticaland numerical analysis indicate that such phases are governed by
a conformal field theory with central charge and continuosly varying
critical exponents.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Critical Behaviour of Mixed Heisenberg Chains
The critical behaviour of anisotropic Heisenberg models with two kinds of
antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled centers are studied numerically by using
finite-size calculations and conformal invariance. These models exhibit the
interesting property of ferrimagnetism instead of antiferromagnetism. Most of
our results are centered in the mixed Heisenberg chain where we have at even
(odd) sites a spin-S (S') SU(2) operator interacting with a XXZ like
interaction (anisotropy ). Our results indicate universal properties
for all these chains. The whole phase, , where the models change
from ferromagnetic to ferrimagnetic behaviour is
critical. Along this phase the critical fluctuations are ruled by a c=1
conformal field theory of Gaussian type. The conformal dimensions and critical
exponents, along this phase, are calculated by studying these models with
several boundary conditions.Comment: 21 pages, standard LaTex, to appear in J.Phys.A:Math.Ge
Integrability of a disordered Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain
We investigate how the transition from integrability to nonintegrability
occurs by changing the parameters of the Hamiltonian of a Heisenberg spin-1/2
chain with defects. Randomly distributed defects may lead to quantum chaos. A
similar behavior is obtained in the presence of a single defect out of the
edges of the chain, suggesting that randomness is not the cause of chaos in
these systems, but the mere presence of a defect.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
The Bethe ansatz as a matrix product ansatz
The Bethe ansatz in its several formulations is the common tool for the exact
solution of one dimensional quantum Hamiltonians. This ansatz asserts that the
several eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonians are given in terms of a sum of
permutations of plane waves. We present results that induce us to expect that,
alternatively, the eigenfunctions of all the exact integrable quantum chains
can also be expressed by a matrix product ansatz. In this ansatz the several
components of the eigenfunctions are obtained through the algebraic properties
of properly defined matrices. This ansatz allows an unified formulation of
several exact integrable Hamiltonians. We show how to formulate this ansatz for
a huge family of quantum chains like the anisotropic Heisenberg model,
Fateev-Zamolodchikov model, Izergin-Korepin model, model, Hubbard model,
etc.Comment: 4 pages and no figure
The Yang-Baxter equation for PT invariant nineteen vertex models
We study the solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation associated to nineteen
vertex models invariant by the parity-time symmetry from the perspective of
algebraic geometry. We determine the form of the algebraic curves constraining
the respective Boltzmann weights and found that they possess a universal
structure. This allows us to classify the integrable manifolds in four
different families reproducing three known models besides uncovering a novel
nineteen vertex model in a unified way. The introduction of the spectral
parameter on the weights is made via the parameterization of the fundamental
algebraic curve which is a conic. The diagonalization of the transfer matrix of
the new vertex model and its thermodynamic limit properties are discussed. We
point out a connection between the form of the main curve and the nature of the
excitations of the corresponding spin-1 chains.Comment: 43 pages, 6 figures and 5 table
New Integrable Models from Fusion
Integrable multistate or multiflavor/color models were recently introduced.
They are generalizations of models corresponding to the defining
representations of the U_q(sl(m)) quantum algebras. Here I show that a similar
generalization is possible for all higher dimensional representations. The
R-matrices and the Hamiltonians of these models are constructed by fusion. The
sl(2) case is treated in some detail and the spin-0 and spin-1 matrices are
obtained in explicit forms. This provides in particular a generalization of the
Fateev-Zamolodchikov Hamiltonian.Comment: 11 pages, Latex. v2: statement concerning symmetries qualified, 3
minor misprints corrected. J. Phys. A (1999) in pres
On the density matrix for the kink ground state of higher spin XXZ chain
The exact expression for the density matrix of the kink ground state of
higher spin XXZ chain is obtained
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