In THE SHADOW OF MACEDON: AN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF DURIS OF SAMOS

This investigation is designed primarily to divert the focus of Durian scholarship away from the Peripatetic school, which has dominated the discus ion of the Hellenistic historian, and to concentrate on the total historical circumstances of which Duris\u27 educator was only one very important phase. As might be expected, Duris\u27 best known work, the Macedonian History, is given the greatest emphasis, particularly the part which treated the period of the historian\u27s adult life. The most important problems concerning the minor work , especially the Agathocles biography and the Samian Chronicle, will be considered in the overall analysis. Because of the nature of the study , much of the content is speculative and should be constantly regarded as such

Roman people

xxvi, 339 p. : il.; 23 cm

Roman people

XXV+339hlm.;23c

Confinement and Mott Transitions of Dynamical Charges in One-Dimensional Lattice Gauge Theories

Confinement is an ubiquitous phenomenon when matter couples to gauge fields, which manifests itself in a linear string potential between two static charges. Although gauge fields can be integrated out in one dimension, they can mediate nonlocal interactions which in turn influence the paradigmatic Luttinger liquid properties. However, when the charges become dynamical and their densities finite, understanding confinement becomes challenging. Here we show that confinement in 1D lattice gauge theories, with dynamical matter fields and arbitrary densities, is related to translational symmetry breaking in a nonlocal basis. The exact transformation to this string-length basis leads us to an exact mapping of Luttinger parameters reminiscent of a Luther-Emery rescaling. We include the effects of local, but beyond contact, interactions between the matter particles, and show that confined mesons can form a Mott-insulating state when the deconfined charges cannot. While the transition to the Mott state cannot be detected in the Green’s function of the charges, we show that the metallic state is characterized by hidden off-diagonal quasi-long-range order. Our predictions provide new insights to the physics of confinement of dynamical charges, and can be experimentally addressed in Rydberg-dressed quantum gases in optical lattices