Completeness of the SO(4) Extended Bethe Ansatz for the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model

We show how to construct a complete set of eigenstates of the hamiltonian of the one-dimensional Hubbard model on a lattice of even length $L$. This is done by using the nested Bethe Ansatz {\it and} the $SO(4)$ symmetry of the model. We discuss in detail how the counting of independent eigenstates is carried out.Comment: 33 pages, using latex, to appear in Nucl.Phys. B (FS

Exact solution of a t-J chain with impurity

We study the effects of an integrable impurity in a periodic t-J chain. The impurity couples to both spin and charge degrees of freedom and has the interesting feature that the interaction with the bulk can be varied continuously without losing integrability. We first consider ground state properties close to half-filling in the presence of a small bulk magnetic field. We calculate the impurity contributions to the (zero temperature) susceptibilities and the low temperature specific heat and determine the high-temperature characteristics of the impurity. We then investigate transport properties by computing the spin and charge stiffnesses at zero temperature. Finally the impurity phase--shifts are calculated and the existence of an impurity bound state in the holon sector is established.Comment: 33 pages Latex, figures include

On the Scaling Limit of the 1D Hubbard Model at Half Filling

The dispersion relations and S-matrix of the one-dimensional Hubbard model at half filling are considered in a certain scaling limit. (In the process we derive a useful small-coupling expansion of the exact lattice dispersion relations.) The resulting scattering theory is consistently identified as that of the SU(2) chiral-invariant Thirring (or Gross-Neveu) field theory, containing both massive and massless sectors.Comment: 14 pages in harvmac, Tel-Aviv preprint TAUP 2203-9

Particles, Superparticles and Super Yang--Mills

This paper is concerned with theories describing spinning particles that are formulated in terms of actions possessing either local world-line supersymmetry or local fermionic {\it kappa} invariance. These classical actions are obtained by adding a finite number of spinor or vector coordinates to the usual space-time coordinates. Generalizing to superspace leads to corresponding types of \lq spinning superparticle' theories in which the wave-functions are superfields in some (generally reducible) representation of the Lorentz group. A class of these spinning superparticle actions possesses the same spectrum as ten-dimensional supersymmetric Yang--Mills theory, which it is shown can be formulated in terms of either vector or spinor superfields satisfying supercovariant constraints. The models under consideration include some that were known previously and some new ones.Comment: 45 pages, QMW-93-0

Doped Heisenberg chains: spin-S generalizations of the supersymmetric t-J model

A family of exactly solvable models describing a spin-S Heisenberg chain doped with mobile spin-(S-1/2) carriers is constructed from gl(2|1)-invariant solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. The models are generalizations of the supersymmetric t-J model which is obtained for S=1/2. We solve the model by means of the algebraic Bethe Ansatz and present results for the zero temperature and thermodynamic properties. At low temperatures the models show spin charge separation, i.e. contain contributions of a free bosonic theory in the charge sector and an SU(2)-invariant theory describing the magnetic excitations. For small carrier concentration the latter can be decomposed further into an SU(2) level-2S Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model and the minimal unitary model M_p with p=2S+1.Comment: LaTeX, 24 pp. incl. 4 figure

Faceting Transition in an Exactly Solvable Terrace-Ledge-Kink model

We solve exactly a Terrace-Ledge-Kink (TLK) model describing a crystal surface at a microscopic level. We show that there is a faceting transition driven either by temperature or by the chemical potential that controls the slope of the surface. In the rough phase we investigate thermal fluctuations of the surface using Conformal Field Theory.Comment: 27 pages, 18 EPS figure

Exact thermodynamics and Luttinger liquid properties of the integrable t-J model

A Trotter-Suzuki mapping is used to calculate the finite-temperature properties of the one-dimensional supersymmetric $t-J$ model. This approach allows for the exact calculation of various thermodynamical properties by means of the quantum transfer matrix (QTM). The free energy and other interesting quantities are obtained such as the specific heat and compressibility. For the largest eigenvalue of the QTM leading to the free energy a set of just two non-linear integral equations is presented. These equations are studied analytically and numerically for different particle densities and temperatures. The structure of the specific heat is discussed in terms of the elementary charge as well as spin excitations. Special emphasis is placed on the study of the low-temperature behavior confirming scaling predictions by conformal field theory and Luttinger liquid theory. To our knowledge this is the first complete investigation of a strongly correlated electron system on a lattice at finite temperature.Comment: 27 pages, Latex, 9 Post-Script figures, uses graphicx and amsmat

Scattering Matrix and Excitation Spectrum of the Hubbard Model

We consider the one-dimensional Hubbard model at half filling. We show that both excitation spectrum and S-matrix are determined by the SO(4) symmetry of the model. The complete set of excitations is given by the scattering states four elementary excitations, which form the fundamental representation of SO(4). We evaluate the exact S-matrix, which satisfies the Yang-Baxter relation. The results for the repulsive and attractive Hubbard model are related by an interchange of spin and charge degrees of freedom.Comment: 8 pages, jyTeX (macro included - just TeX the file) ITP-SB-93-4

A Note on Dressed S-Matrices in Models with Long-Range Interactions

The {\sl dressed} Scattering matrix describing scattering of quasiparticles in various models with long-range interactions is evaluated by means of Korepin's method\upref vek1/. For models with ${1\over\sin^2(r)}$-interactions the S-matrix is found to be a momentum-independent phase, which clearly demonstrates the ideal gas character of the quasiparticles in such models. We then determine S-matrices for some models with ${1\over\sinh^2(r)}$-interaction and find them to be in general nontrivial. For the ${1\over r^2}$-limit of the ${1\over\sinh^2(r)}$-interaction we recover trivial S-matrices, thus exhibiting a crossover from interacting to noninteracting quasiparticles. The relation of the S-matrix to fractional statistics is discussed.Comment: 18 pages, jyTeX (macro included - just TeX the file) BONN-TH-94-13, revised version: analysis of models with 1/sinh^2 interaction adde

Scaling Limit of the Ising Model in a Field

The dilute A_3 model is a solvable IRF (interaction round a face) model with three local states and adjacency conditions encoded by the Dynkin diagram of the Lie algebra A_3. It can be regarded as a solvable version of an Ising model at the critical temperature in a magnetic field. One therefore expects the scaling limit to be governed by Zamolodchikov's integrable perturbation of the c=1/2 conformal field theory. Indeed, a recent thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz approach succeeded to unveil the corresponding E_8 structure under certain assumptions on the nature of the Bethe Ansatz solutions. In order to check these conjectures, we perform a detailed numerical investigation of the solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations for the critical and off-critical model. Scaling functions for the ground-state corrections and for the lowest spectral gaps are obtained, which give very precise numerical results for the lowest mass ratios in the massive scaling limit. While these agree perfectly with the E_8 mass ratios, we observe one state which seems to violate the assumptions underlying the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz calculation. We also analyze the critical spectrum of the dilute A_3 model, which exhibits massive excitations on top of the massless states of the Ising conformal field theory.Comment: 29 pages, RevTeX, 11 PostScript figures included by epsf, using amssymb.sty (v2.2