Mathematical Structure of Magnons in Quantum Ferromagnets

We provide the mathematical structure and a simple, transparent and rigorous derivation of the magnons as elementary quasi-particle excitations at low temperatures and in the infinite spin limit for a large class of Heisenberg ferromagnets. The magnon canonical variables are obtained as fluctuation operators in the infinite spin limit. Their quantum character is governed by the size of the magnetization

Imperfect Bose Gas with Attractive Boundary Conditions

The free Bose gas with attractive boundary conditions is an interesting toy model for the study of Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), because one has BEC already in one dimension. Here we study for the first time the imperfect Bose gas with these boundary conditions and prove rigorously the occurence of condensation.Comment: 8 page

Asymptotics of Varadhan-type and the Gibbs Variational Principle

For a large class of quantum models of mean-field type the thermodynamic limit of the free energy density is proved to be given by the Gibbs variational principle. The latter is shown to be equivalent to a non-commutative version of Varadhan’s asymptotic formula

Non-Extensive Bose-Einstein Condensation Model

The imperfect Boson gas supplemented with a gentle repulsive interaction is completely solved. In particular it is proved that it has non-extensive Bose-Einstein condensation, i.e., there is condensation without macroscopic occupation of the ground state (k=0) level

On the Finite-Temperature Generalization of the C-theorem and the Interplay between Classical and Quantum Fluctuations

The behavior of the finite-temperature C-function, defined by Neto and Fradkin [Nucl. Phys. B {\bf 400}, 525 (1993)], is analyzed within a d -dimensional exactly solvable lattice model, recently proposed by Vojta [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 53}, 710 (1996)], which is of the same universality class as the quantum nonlinear O(n) sigma model in the limit $n\to \infty$. The scaling functions of C for the cases d=1 (absence of long-range order), d=2 (existence of a quantum critical point), d=4 (existence of a line of finite temperature critical points that ends up with a quantum critical point) are derived and analyzed. The locations of regions where C is monotonically increasing (which depend significantly on d) are exactly determined. The results are interpreted within the finite-size scaling theory that has to be modified for d=4. PACS number(s): 05.20.-y, 05.50.+q, 75.10.Hk, 75.10.Jm, 63.70.+h, 05.30-d, 02.30Comment: 15 pages LATEX, ioplppt.sty file used, 6 EPS figures. Some changes made in section V (on finite-size scaling interpretation of the results obtained

Symmetric States of Composite Systems

Størmer proved a theorem on the integral decomposition of symmetric states on a C*-algebra ⊗B. Motivated by problems in statistical mechanics, we define symmetric states on a composite algebra A⊗(⊗B) and extend Størmer’s theorem to this situation. Applications to spin-boson models are sketched