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Financial Super-Markets: Size Matters for Asset Trade
The paper presents a two-country macroeconomic model in which the number of financial assets is endogenous. Imperfect substitutability of assets and international transaction costs give a comparative advantage to large markets, because of demand effects. Agents have more incentives to undertake risky investments on those markets; they can also diversify risk at a lower cost. Prices of financial assets are higher in the large area because asset markets are broader. We also analyse the impact of domestic transaction costs and issuing costs on financial markets and returns. Our theory has important implications for the pattern of international trade in risky assets.International macroeconomics, asset trade, transaction costs, incomplete markets
An Inconsistency in the Simulation of Bose-Einstein Correlations
We show that the formalism commonly used to implement Bose-Einstein
correlations in Monte-Carlo simulations can lead to values of the two-particle
correlator significantly smaller than unity, in the case of sources with strong
position-momentum correlations. This is more pronounced when the phase space of
the emitted particles is strongly reduced by experimental acceptance or
kinematic analysis selections. It is inconsistent with general principles
according to which the Bose-Einstein correlator is larger than unity. This
inconsistency seems to be rooted in the fact that quantum mechanical
localization properties are not taken into account properly.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe
Bethe Ansatz solutions for Temperley-Lieb Quantum Spin Chains
We solve the spectrum of quantum spin chains based on representations of the
Temperley-Lieb algebra associated with the quantum groups for and . The tool is a
modified version of the coordinate Bethe Ansatz through a suitable choice of
the Bethe states which give to all models the same status relative to their
diagonalization. All these models have equivalent spectra up to degeneracies
and the spectra of the lower dimensional representations are contained in the
higher-dimensional ones. Periodic boundary conditions, free boundary conditions
and closed non-local boundary conditions are considered. Periodic boundary
conditions, unlike free boundary conditions, break quantum group invariance.
For closed non-local cases the models are quantum group invariant as well as
periodic in a certain sense.Comment: 28 pages, plain LaTex, no figures, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Exact valence bond entanglement entropy and probability distribution in the XXX spin chain and the Potts model
By relating the ground state of Temperley-Lieb hamiltonians to partition
functions of 2D statistical mechanics systems on a half plane, and using a
boundary Coulomb gas formalism, we obtain in closed form the valence bond
entanglement entropy as well as the valence bond probability distribution in
these ground states. We find in particular that for the XXX spin chain, the
number N_c of valence bonds connecting a subsystem of size L to the outside
goes, in the thermodynamic limit, as = (4/pi^2) ln L, disproving a recent
conjecture that this should be related with the von Neumann entropy, and thus
equal to 1/(3 ln 2) ln L. Our results generalize to the Q-state Potts model.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
TeV Cherenkov Events as Bose-Einstein Gamma Condensations
The recent detection of gamma radiation from Mkn 501 at energies as high as
25 TeV suggests stringent upper bounds on the diffuse, far infrared,
extragalactic radiation density. The production of electron-positron pairs
through photon-photon collisions would prevent gamma photons of substantially
higher energies from reaching us across distances of order 100 Mpc. However,
coherently arriving TeV or sub-TeV gammas - Bose-Einstein condensations of
photons at these energies - could mimic the Cherenkov shower signatures of
extremely energetic gammas. To better understand such events, we describe their
observational traits and discuss how they might be generated.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Ap.J.(Lett.
A hybrid model for Rydberg gases including exact two-body correlations
A model for the simulation of ensembles of laser-driven Rydberg-Rydberg
interacting multi-level atoms is discussed. Our hybrid approach combines an
exact two-body treatment of nearby atom pairs with an effective approximate
treatment for spatially separated pairs. We propose an optimized evolution
equation based only on the system steady state, and a time-independent Monte
Carlo technique is used to efficiently determine this steady state. The hybrid
model predicts features in the pair correlation function arising from
multi-atom processes which existing models can only partially reproduce. Our
interpretation of these features shows that higher-order correlations are
relevant already at low densities. Finally, we analyze the performance of our
model in the high-density case.Comment: significantly expanded and revised version (more observables,
high-density regime); 9 pages, 8 figure
Valence Bond Entanglement and Fluctuations in Random Singlet Phases
The ground state of the uniform antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain
can be viewed as a strongly fluctuating liquid of valence bonds, while in
disordered chains these bonds lock into random singlet states on long length
scales. We show that this phenomenon can be studied numerically, even in the
case of weak disorder, by calculating the mean value of the number of valence
bonds leaving a block of contiguous spins (the valence-bond entanglement
entropy) as well as the fluctuations in this number. These fluctuations show a
clear crossover from a small regime, in which they behave similar to those
of the uniform model, to a large regime in which they saturate in a way
consistent with the formation of a random singlet state on long length scales.
A scaling analysis of these fluctuations is used to study the dependence on
disorder strength of the length scale characterizing the crossover between
these two regimes. Results are obtained for a class of models which include, in
addition to the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, the uniform and disordered critical
1D transverse-field Ising model and chains of interacting non-Abelian anyons.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
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