Functions Characterizing the Ground State of the XXZ Spin-1/2 Chain in the Thermodynamic Limit

We establish several properties of the solutions to the linear integral equations describing the infinite volume properties of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain in the disordered regime. In particular, we obtain lower and upper bounds for the dressed energy, dressed charge and density of Bethe roots. Furthermore, we establish that given a fixed external magnetic field (or a fixed magnetization) there exists a unique value of the boundary of the Fermi zone

Scattering of terahertz radiation from oriented carbon nanotube films

We report on the use of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy to measure scattering from multi-walled carbon nanotubes aligned normal to the film plane. Measurements indicate scattering from the nanotubes is significantly stronger than for bulk metal

Matone's relation of N=2 super Yang-Mills and spectrum of Toda chain

In N=2 super Yang-Mills theory, the Matone's relation relates instanton corrections of the prepotential to instanton corrections of scalar field condensation . This relation has been proved to hold for Omega deformed theories too, using localization method. In this paper, we first give a case study supporting the relation, which does not rely on the localization technique. Especially, we show that the magnetic expansion also satisfies a relation of Matone's type. Then we discuss implication of the relation for the spectrum of periodic Toda chain, in the context of recently proposed Nekrasov-Shatashvili scheme.Comment: 17 pages; v2 minor changes, references added; v3 more material added in 2nd section, clarification in 4th sectio

On the thermodynamic limit of form factor expansions of dynamical correlation functions in the massless regime of the XXZ spin 1/21/2 chain

International audienceThis work constructs a well-defined and operational form factor expansion in a model having a massless spectrum of excitations. More precisely, the dynamic two-point functions in the massless regime of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain are expressed in terms of a properly regularised series of multiple integrals. These series are obtained by taking, in an appropriate way, the thermodynamic limit of the finite volume form factor expansions. The series are structured in a way allowing one to identify directly the contributions to the correlator stemming from the conformal-type excitations on the Fermi surface and those issuing from the massive excitations (deep holes, particles, and bound states). The obtained form factor series opens up the possibility of a systematic and exact study of asymptotic regimes of dynamical correlation functions in the massless regime of the XXZ spin 1/2 chain. Furthermore, the assumptions on the microscopic structure of the model’s Hilbert space that are necessary so as to write down the series appear to be compatible with any model—not necessarily integrable—belonging to the Luttinger liquid universality class. Thus, the present analysis also provides the phenomenological structure of form factor expansions in massless models belonging to this universality class

Space-like asymptotics of the thermal two-point functions of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain

International audienceThis work proposes a closed formula for the leading term of the long-distance and large-time asymptotics in a cone of the space-like regime for the transverse dynamical two-point functions of the XXZ spin 1/2 chain at finite temperatures. The result follows from a simple analysis of the thermal form factor series for dynamical correlation functions. The leading asymptotics we obtain are driven by the Bethe Ansatz data associated with the first sub-leading Eigenvalue of the quantum transfer matrix

The Toda2_2 chain

International audienceWe show that a natural discretisation of Virasoro algebra yields a quantum integrable model which is the Toda chain in the second Hamiltonian structure