N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories and quantum integrable systems

We study N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on the product of a two-sphere and a cylinder. We show that the low-energy dynamics of a BPS sector of such a theory is described by a quantum integrable system, with the Planck constant set by the inverse of the radius of the sphere. If the sphere is replaced with a hemisphere, then our system reduces to an integrable system of the type studied by Nekrasov and Shatashvili. In this case we establish a correspondence between the effective prepotential of the gauge theory and the Yang-Yang function of the integrable system.Comment: 24 pages. v2: references added; v3: minor changes, published versio

Quantum phase transitional patterns in the SD-pair shell model

Patterns of shape-phase transition in the proton-neutron coupled systems are studied within the $SD$-pair shell model. The results show that some transitional patterns in the $SD$-pair shell model are similar to the $U(5)-SU(3)$, $U(5)-SO(6)$ transitions with signatures of the critical point symmetry of the interacting boson model.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure