Quarks in the Skyrme-'t Hooft-Witten Model

The three-flavor Skyrme-'t Hooft-Witten model is interpreted in terms of a quark-like substructure, leading to a new model of explicitly confined color-free ``quarks'' reminiscent of Gell-Mann's original pre-color quarks, but with unexpected and significant differences.Comment: Latex, 6 pages, no figure

SU3 isoscalar factors

A summary of the properties of the Wigner Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and isoscalar factors for the group SU3 in the SU2$\otimes$U1 decomposition is presented. The outer degeneracy problem is discussed in detail with a proof of a conjecture (Braunschweig's) which has been the basis of previous work on the SU3 coupling coefficients. Recursion relations obeyed by the SU3 isoscalar factors are produced, along with an algorithm which allows numerical determination of the factors from the recursion relations. The algorithm produces isoscalar factors which share all the symmetry properties under permutation of states and conjugation which are familiar from the SU2 case. The full set of symmetry properties for the SU3 Wigner-Clebsch-Gordan coefficients and isoscalar factors are displayed.Comment: 20 pages, LaTeX (earlier version incomplete

A Classically Singular Representation of suq(n) su_q(n)

A \rep of \sun, which diverges in the limit of \cl, is investigated. This is an infinite dimensional and a non-unitary \rep, defined for the real value of $q, \ 0 < q < 1.$ Each \irrep is specified by $n$ continuous variables and one discrete variable. This \rep gives a new solution of the Yang-Baxter equation, when the R-matrix is evaluated. It is shown that a continuous variables can be regarded as a spectral parameter.Comment: 8 pages, phyzzx, RCNP - 05

Program for Generating Tables of SU(3) Coupling Coefficients

A C-Language program which tabulates the isoscalar factors and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for products of representations in SU(3) is presented. These are efficiently computed using recursion relations, and the results are presented in exact precision as square roots of rational numbers. Output is in LaTeX format.Comment: LaTeX, 29 pages, no figure

Three Dimensional Quantum Geometry and Deformed Poincare Symmetry

We study a three dimensional non-commutative space emerging in the context of three dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity. Our starting point is the assumption that the isometry group is deformed to the Drinfeld double D(SU(2)). We generalize to the deformed case the construction of the flat Euclidean space as the quotient of its isometry group ISU(2) by SU(2). We show that the algebra of functions becomes the non-commutative algebra of SU(2) distributions endowed with the convolution product. This construction gives the action of ISU(2) on the algebra and allows the determination of plane waves and coordinate functions. In particular, we show that: (i) plane waves have bounded momenta; (ii) to a given momentum are associated several SU(2) elements leading to an effective description of an element in the algebra in terms of several physical scalar fields; (iii) their product leads to a deformed addition rule of momenta consistent with the bound on the spectrum. We generalize to the non-commutative setting the local action for a scalar field. Finally, we obtain, using harmonic analysis, another useful description of the algebra as the direct sum of the algebra of matrices. The algebra of matrices inherits the action of ISU(2): rotations leave the order of the matrices invariant whereas translations change the order in a way we explicitly determine.Comment: latex, 37 page

Influence of Coulomb distortion on polarization observables in elastic electromagnetic lepton hadron scattering at low energies

The formal expression for the most general polarization observable in elastic electromagnetic lepton hadron scattering at low energies is derived for the nonrelativistic regime. For the explicit evaluation the influence of Coulomb distortion on various polarization observables is calculated in a distorted wave Born approximation. Besides the hyperfine interaction also the spin-orbit interactions of lepton and hadron are included. For like charges the Coulomb repulsion reduces strongly the size of polarization observables compared to the plane wave Born approximation whereas for opposite charges the Coulomb attraction leads to a substantial increase of these observables for hadron lab kinetic energies below about 20 keV.Comment: 32 pages, 26 figures. Typos corrected, notation slightly changed, figures redrawn, one figure and references added. A condensed version is in press in Physical Review

Asymptotics of classical spin networks

A spin network is a cubic ribbon graph labeled by representations of $\mathrm{SU}(2)$. Spin networks are important in various areas of Mathematics (3-dimensional Quantum Topology), Physics (Angular Momentum, Classical and Quantum Gravity) and Chemistry (Atomic Spectroscopy). The evaluation of a spin network is an integer number. The main results of our paper are: (a) an existence theorem for the asymptotics of evaluations of arbitrary spin networks (using the theory of $G$-functions), (b) a rationality property of the generating series of all evaluations with a fixed underlying graph (using the combinatorics of the chromatic evaluation of a spin network), (c) rigorous effective computations of our results for some $6j$-symbols using the Wilf-Zeilberger theory, and (d) a complete analysis of the regular Cube $12j$ spin network (including a non-rigorous guess of its Stokes constants), in the appendix.Comment: 24 pages, 32 figure

Collective spontaneous emission in a q-deformed Dicke model

The q-deformation of a single quantized radiation mode interacting with a collection of two level atoms is introduced, analysing its effects on the cooperative behavior of the system.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX file, 2 figures available from authors, accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett.

Spin network quantum simulator

We propose a general setting for a universal representation of the quantum structure on which quantum information stands, whose dynamical evolution (information manipulation) is based on angular momentum recoupling theory. Such scheme complies with the notion of 'quantum simulator' in the sense of Feynmann, and is shown to be related with the topological quantum field theory approach to quantum computation.Comment: revtex, 6 pages + 5 figure

The q-harmonic oscillators, q-coherent states and the q-symplecton

The recently introduced notion of a quantum group is discussed conceptually and then related to deformed harmonic oscillators ('q-harmonic oscillators'). Two developments in applying q-harmonic oscillators are reviewed: q-coherent states and the q-symplecton