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New superintegrable models with position-dependent mass from Bertrand's Theorem on curved spaces
A generalized version of Bertrand's theorem on spherically symmetric curved
spaces is presented. This result is based on the classification of
(3+1)-dimensional (Lorentzian) Bertrand spacetimes, that gives rise to two
families of Hamiltonian systems defined on certain 3-dimensional (Riemannian)
spaces. These two systems are shown to be either the Kepler or the oscillator
potentials on the corresponding Bertrand spaces, and both of them are maximally
superintegrable. Afterwards, the relationship between such Bertrand
Hamiltonians and position-dependent mass systems is explicitly established.
These results are illustrated through the example of a superintegrable
(nonlinear) oscillator on a Bertrand-Darboux space, whose quantization and
physical features are also briefly addressed.Comment: 13 pages; based in the contribution to the 28th International
Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Northumbria University
(U.K.), 26-30th July 201
Superintegrability on sl(2)-coalgebra spaces
We review a recently introduced set of N-dimensional quasi-maximally
superintegrable Hamiltonian systems describing geodesic motions, that can be
used to generate "dynamically" a large family of curved spaces. From an
algebraic viewpoint, such spaces are obtained through kinetic energy
Hamiltonians defined on either the sl(2) Poisson coalgebra or a quantum
deformation of it. Certain potentials on these spaces and endowed with the same
underlying coalgebra symmetry have been also introduced in such a way that the
superintegrability properties of the full system are preserved. Several new N=2
examples of this construction are explicitly given, and specific Hamiltonians
leading to spaces of non-constant curvature are emphasized.Comment: 12 pages. Based on the contribution presented at the "XII
International Conference on Symmetry Methods in Physics", Yerevan (Armenia),
July 2006. To appear in Physics of Atomic Nucle
(1+1) Schrodinger Lie bialgebras and their Poisson-Lie groups
All Lie bialgebra structures for the (1+1)-dimensional centrally extended
Schrodinger algebra are explicitly derived and proved to be of the coboundary
type. Therefore, since all of them come from a classical r-matrix, the complete
family of Schrodinger Poisson-Lie groups can be deduced by means of the
Sklyanin bracket. All possible embeddings of the harmonic oscillator, extended
Galilei and gl(2) Lie bialgebras within the Schrodinger classification are
studied. As an application, new quantum (Hopf algebra) deformations of the
Schrodinger algebra, including their corresponding quantum universal
R-matrices, are constructed.Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX. Possible applications in relation with integrable
systems are pointed; new references adde
Quantum two-photon algebra from non-standard U_z(sl(2,R)) and a discrete time Schr\"odinger equation
The non-standard quantum deformation of the (trivially) extended sl(2,R)
algebra is used to construct a new quantum deformation of the two-photon
algebra h_6 and its associated quantum universal R-matrix. A deformed one-boson
representation for this algebra is deduced and applied to construct a first
order deformation of the differential equation that generates the two-photon
algebra eigenstates in Quantum Optics. On the other hand, the isomorphism
between h_6 and the (1+1) Schr\"odinger algebra leads to a new quantum
deformation for the latter for which a differential-difference realization is
presented. From it, a time discretization of the heat-Schr\"odinger equation is
obtained and the quantum Schr\"odinger generators are shown to be symmetry
operators.Comment: 12 pages, LaTe
Bases in Lie and Quantum Algebras
Applications of algebras in physics are related to the connection of
measurable observables to relevant elements of the algebras, usually the
generators. However, in the determination of the generators in Lie algebras
there is place for some arbitrary conventions. The situation is much more
involved in the context of quantum algebras, where inside the quantum universal
enveloping algebra, we have not enough primitive elements that allow for a
privileged set of generators and all basic sets are equivalent. In this paper
we discuss how the Drinfeld double structure underlying every simple Lie
bialgebra characterizes uniquely a particular basis without any freedom,
completing the Cartan program on simple algebras. By means of a perturbative
construction, a distinguished deformed basis (we call it the analytical basis)
is obtained for every quantum group as the analytical prolongation of the above
defined Lie basis of the corresponding Lie bialgebra. It turns out that the
whole construction is unique, so to each quantum universal enveloping algebra
is associated one and only one bialgebra. In this way the problem of the
classification of quantum algebras is moved to the classification of
bialgebras. In order to make this procedure more clear, we discuss in detail
the simple cases of su(2) and su_q(2).Comment: 16 pages, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Quantum
Theory and Symmetries QTS5 (July 22-28, 2007, Valladolid (Spain)
Site-diluted three dimensional Ising Model with long-range correlated disorder
We study two different versions of the site-diluted Ising model in three
dimensions with long-range spatially correlated disorder by Monte Carlo means.
We use finite-size scaling techniques to compute the critical exponents of
these systems, taking into account the strong scaling-corrections. We find a
value that is compatible with the analytical predictions.Comment: 19 pages, 1 postscript figur
Universal integrals for superintegrable systems on N-dimensional spaces of constant curvature
An infinite family of classical superintegrable Hamiltonians defined on the
N-dimensional spherical, Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces are shown to have a
common set of (2N-3) functionally independent constants of the motion. Among
them, two different subsets of N integrals in involution (including the
Hamiltonian) can always be explicitly identified. As particular cases, we
recover in a straightforward way most of the superintegrability properties of
the Smorodinsky-Winternitz and generalized Kepler-Coulomb systems on spaces of
constant curvature and we introduce as well new classes of (quasi-maximally)
superintegrable potentials on these spaces. Results here presented are a
consequence of the sl(2) Poisson coalgebra symmetry of all the Hamiltonians,
together with an appropriate use of the phase spaces associated to Poincare and
Beltrami coordinates.Comment: 12 page
Binary trees, coproducts, and integrable systems
We provide a unified framework for the treatment of special integrable
systems which we propose to call "generalized mean field systems". Thereby
previous results on integrable classical and quantum systems are generalized.
Following Ballesteros and Ragnisco, the framework consists of a unital algebra
with brackets, a Casimir element, and a coproduct which can be lifted to higher
tensor products. The coupling scheme of the iterated tensor product is encoded
in a binary tree. The theory is exemplified by the case of a spin octahedron.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, v2: minor correction in theorem 1, two new
appendices adde
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