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Luttinger liquid superlattices: realization of gapless insulating phases
We investigate Luttinger Liquid superlattices, a periodic structure composed
of two kinds of one-dimensional systems of interacting electrons. We calculate
several properties of the low-energy sector: the effective charge and spin
velocities, the compressibility, various correlation functions, the Landauer
conductance and the Drude weight. The low-energy properties are subsumed into
effective parameters, much like homogeneous one-dimensional systems. A generic
result is the weighted average nature of these parameters, in proportion to the
spatial extent of the underlying subunits, pointing to the possibility of
``engineered'' structures. As a specific realization, we consider a
one-dimensional Hubbard superlattice, which consists of a periodic arrangement
of two long Hubbard chains with different coupling constants and different
hopping amplitudes. This system exhibits a rich phase diagram with several
phases, both metallic and insulating. We have found that gapless insulating
phases are present over a wide range of parameters.Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures, RevTeX
Reflection matrices for the vertex model
The graded reflection equation is investigated for the
vertex model. We have found four classes of diagonal
solutions and twelve classes of non-diagonal ones. The number of free
parameters for some solutions depends on the number of bosonic and fermionic
degrees of freedom considered.Comment: 30 page
Lorentz-violating dimension-five operator contribution to the black body radiation
We investigate the thermodynamics of a photon gas in an effective field
theory model that describes Lorentz violations through dimension-five operators
and Horava-Lifshitz theory. We explore the electrodynamics of the model which
includes higher order derivatives in the Lagrangian that can modify the
dispersion relation for the propagation of the photons. We shall focus on the
deformed black body radiation spectrum and modified Stefan-Boltzmann law to
address the allowed bounds on the Lorentz-violating parameter.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. Version published in PL
Lorentz-violating nonminimal coupling contributions in mesonic hydrogen atoms and generation of photon higher-order derivative terms
We have studied the contributions of Lorentz-violating CPT-odd and CPT-even
nonminimal couplings to the energy spectrum of the mesonic hydrogen and the
higher-order radiative corrections to the effective action of the photon sector
of a Lorentz-violating version of the scalar electrodynamics. By considering
the complex scalar field describes charged mesons (pion or kaon), the
non-relativistic limit of the model allows to attain upper-bounds by analyzing
its contribution to the mesonic hydrogen energy. By using the experimental data
for the strong correction shift and the pure QED transitions , the best upper-bound for the CPT-odd coupling is
and for the CPT-even one is
. Besides, the CPT-odd radiative correction to the
photon action is a dimension-5 operator which looks like a higher-order
Carroll-Field-Jackiw term. The CPT-even radiative contribution to the photon
effective action is a dimension-6 operator which would be a higher-order
derivative version of the minimal CPT-even term of the standard model
extension
Massive "spin-2" theories in arbitrary dimensions
Here we show that in arbitrary dimensions there are two families of
second order Lagrangians describing massive "spin-2" particles via a
nonsymmetric rank-2 tensor. They differ from the usual Fierz-Pauli theory in
general. At zero mass one of the families is Weyl invariant. Such massless
theory has no particle content in and gives rise, via master action, to a
dual higher order (in derivatives) description of massive spin-2 particles in
where both the second and the fourth order terms are Weyl invariant,
contrary to the linearized New Massive Gravity. However, only the fourth order
term is invariant under arbitrary antisymmetric shifts. Consequently, the
antisymmetric part of the tensor propagates at large momentum as
instead of . So, the same kind of obstacle for the
renormalizability of the New Massive Gravity reappears in this nonsymmetric
higher order description of massive spin-2 particles.Comment: 11 pages, 0 figure
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