Application of the method of collective coordinates the the quantisation of the two-dimensional higgs model

A comprehensive analysis of the application of the method of collective coordinates to the two dimensional Higgs model is given. First the instanton solution is derived, and the geometry of configuration space, and the construction of Schrodinger wave functionals are discussed. It is then explicitly verified that the Goldstone mode is the projection of the vacuum state onto the generator of the broken symmetry. The elimination of this Goldstone mode by means of the unitary gauge condition is demonstrated to the the crucial point in the construction of a consistent perturbation procedure. The parameter of the broken symmetry group is then used as the collective coordinate for field configurations around a minimum of the interaction. Throughout, the discussion is sufficiently detailed in order to facilitate the application of the method to other fields.     

The two-dimensional t-t'-U model as a minimal model for cuprate materials

The addition to the Hubbard Hamiltonian of a t' diagonal hopping term, which is considered to be material dependent for high-T _c cuprate superconductors, is generally suggested to obtain a model capable to describe the physics of high-T _c cuprate materials. In this line of thinking, the two-dimensional t-t'-U model has been studied by means of the Composite Operator Method, which allows to determine the dynamics in a fully self-consistent way by use of symmetry requirements, as the ones coming from the Pauli principle. At first, some local quantities have been calculated to be compared with quantum Monte Carlo data. Then, the structure of the energy bands, the shape of the Fermi surface and the position of the van Hove singularity have been computed as functions of the model parameters and studied by the light of the available experimental data. The results of our study show that there exists two sets of parameters that allows the model to describe the relevant features of the 1-layer compounds Nd_2-xCe_xCuO₄ and La_2-xSr_xCuO₄. On the other hand, for the 2-layer compound YBa₂Cu₃O _{7 - δ} is not possible to find a reasonable set of parameters which could reproduce the position of the van Hove singularity as predicted by ARPES experiments. Hence, it results questionable the existence of an unique model that could properly describe the variety of cuprate superconductors, as the two-dimensional t-t'-U model was thought to be. Received 29 March 2000 and Received in final form 10 August 2000     

The use of polarized coordinates for solving the macroscopic equations of collisionless plasma

A method is developed for the iterative solution of an infinite system of moment equations derived from the collisionless Boltzmann (Vlasov) equation. Since in a strong magnetic field the dominant terms of these equations have a complicated form, the iterative solution after a few steps comes up against difficulties connected with the inversion of matrices of high order. It is found that the transformation of moment equations into the natural polarized coordinate system (Buneman O.: Phys. Fluids4 (1961), 669) diagonalizes the dominant matrices in the magnetic fields with straight lines of force exactly and in adiabatic magnetic fields approximately. In addition, this transformation reveals the symmetries of the moment equations which in some cases permit an exact solution to be found. Apart from the first three moment equations (the equation of continuity, the dynamic (Euler) equation, the equation for pressure) the general moment equation of then-th order is also derived in the Cartesian and general curvilinear coordinate system and in the corresponding polarized natural coordinate systems. The paper deals with some special cases of natural polarized coordinate systems belonging to a magnetic field with straight lines of force (plane, cylindrical and spherical geometry) and with curved lines of force (magnetic trap with mirrors).     

The transfer matrix for a pure phase in the two-dimensional Ising model

The problem of diagonalizing the transfer matrix for the two dimensional Ising model with all boundary spins equal to +1 is solved by use of the spinor method. This provides a simple proof that the spontaneous magnetization is actually given by the well known formula for the long range order with torodial boundary conditions, and this means that the critical temperature is precisely that temperature above which the state is unique and below which it is non unique. An expression for the magnetization at finite distance from the boundary is also given, and a simple derivation of the formula for the surface tension between two coexisting phases is presented. Finally the relation between the degeneracy of the spectrum and the phase transition is discussed.     

A two-dimensional tomography model for the oceanic inhomogeneity reconstruction with wave and ray representations of acoustic field

A model reconstruction of two-dimensional combined oceanic inhomogeneities (of refractive and kinetic types) in tomographic experiments with ray and wave representations of acoustic field is considered. The possibility of a complete reconstruction of two-dimensional flows from the scattering data alone is illustrated. For the realization of the tomographic scheme, a nonorthogonal redundant basis consisting of a number of intersecting stripes is used. The results of reconstruction are presented for model inhomogeneities of kinetic and combined (refractive-kinetic) types. The iterative reconstruction of the flow velocity vector distribution is considered. The tomographic problem in the ray representation is solved by taking into account both the time delays in the signal propagation along the rays and the ray trajectory distortions due to the inhomogeneity of the medium.     

The scaling limit and Osterwalder-Schrader axioms for the two-dimensional Ising model

From a Feynman-Kac formula in a Fermion Fock space for the Schwinger functions of the infinite lattice periodic two-dimensional Ising model, scaled and scaling limit Schwinger functions are defined and shown to admit an absolutely convergent series representation. As the critical temperature is attained, it is shown that the scaled Schwinger functions converge and that the resulting scaling limit Schwinger functions obey the Osterwalder-Schrader axioms.     

The wind-round-tree model and the two-dimensional Lorentz gas

In this Letter we establish the equivalence of the two-dimensional nonoverlapping Lorentz gas and the Ehrenfests' wind-tree model considering round (instead of square) trees. To obtain the Boltzmann equation for this latter model we use the infinite polygonal limit which turns out to be smooth and continuous. Finally we present the general solution of the Boltzmann equation which provides a simple discussion on the ergodicity of the model.     

Darboux coordinates and isospectral Hamiltonian flows for the massive thirring model

The two-dimensional massive Thirring model is described as the integrability condition of a pair of commuting completely integrable isospectral Hamiltonian flows in the dual (2)^+* of the positive part (2)⁺ of the twisted loop algebra (2). Action-angle coordinates corresponding to the spectral invariants are derived on rational coadjoint orbits and a linearization of the flows obtained in the Jacobi variety of the underlying invariant spectral curve through a Liouville generating function for canonical coordinates.Research supported in part by the Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Fonds FCAR du Québec.     

Equivalence of model space techniques and the renormalization group for a separable model problem

Lee–Suzuki similarity transformations and Krenciglowa–Kuo folded diagrams are two common methods used to derive energy independent model space effective interactions for nuclear many-body systems. We demonstrate that these two methods are equivalent to a Renormalization Group (RG) analysis of a well-studied problem in quantum mechanics. The effective low-momentum potentials V_eff obtained from model space methods are shown to obey the same scaling equation for V_eff that RG arguments predict. This indicates that model space methods might be of interest to those studying low-energy nuclear physics using Effective Field Theories (EFT). We find the new result that all of the different energy independent model space techniques yield a unique low-momentum V_eff when applied to the toy model under consideration.     

Imperfect nesting and Peierls instability for a two-dimensional tight-binding model

Based on a half-filled two-dimensional tight-binding model with nearest-neighbour and next nearest-neighbour hopping the effect of imperfect Fermi surface nesting on the Peierls instability is studied at zero temperature. Two dimerization patterns corresponding to a phonon vector (π,π) are considered. It is found that the Peierls instability will be suppressed with an increase of next nearest-neighbour hopping which characterizes the nesting deviation. First and second order transitions to a homogeneous state are possible. The competition between the two dimerized states is discussed. Received 22 December 2000     

The localization transition of the two-dimensional Lorentz model

We investigate the dynamics of a single tracer particle performing Brownian motion in a two-dimensional course of randomly distributed hard obstacles. At a certain critical obstacle density, the motion of the tracer becomes anomalous over many decades in time, which is rationalized in terms of an underlying percolation transition of the void space. In the vicinity of this critical density the dynamics follows the anomalous one up to a crossover time scale where the motion becomes either diffusive or localized. We analyze the scaling behavior of the time-dependent diffusion coefficient D(t) including corrections to scaling. Away from the critical density, D(t) exhibits universal hydrodynamic long-time tails both in the diffusive as well as in the localized phase.     

Electrical conductivity of a two-dimensional model for a structurally anisotropic composite

The electrical conductivity of a two-dimensional structurally anisotropic model for a composite is considered. The model represents an isotropic matrix with a system of nonconducting inclusions in the form of infinitely thin straight line segments (scratches). The scratches make an angle θ or −θ with a preferred axis (for definiteness, axis y) at the same probability, and their centers are chaotically distributed. An approximate effective medium method is used to obtain a general expression for the effective conductivity tensor $ \hat \sigma _e $ \hat \sigma _e of this model that is valid over a wide concentration range. In this approximation, both components of tensor are $ \hat \sigma _e $ \hat \sigma _e shown to vanish at the same percolation threshold, which is expressed explicitly. The conductivity of the model in a critical region is considered in terms of the similarity hypothesis.     

Statistical model for the effects of dephasing on transport properties of large samples

We present a statistical model for the effects of dephasing on the transport properties of large devices. The physical picture is different from earlier models which assume that dephasing happens continuously throughout the sample, whereas we model the dephasing in a statistical sense, assuming a distribution of completely phase randomizing regions between which the transport is coherent and described by the nonequilibrium Green’s function method. Thus the sample is effectively divided into smaller parts making the numerical treatment more efficient. As a first application the conductances of ordered and disordered linear tight-binding chains are calculated and compared to the results of other phenomenological models in the literature.     

A study of Peierls instabilities for a two-dimensional t-t' model

In this paper we study Peierls instabilities for a half-filled two-dimensional tight-binding model with nearest-neighbour hopping t and next nearest-neighbour hopping t' at zero and finite temperatures. Two dimerization patterns corresponding to the same phonon vector (π,π) are considered to be realizations of Peierls states. The effect of imperfect nesting introduced by t' on the Peierls instability, the properties of the dimerized ground state, as well as the competition between two dimerized states for each t' and temperature T, are investigated. It is found: (i). The Peierls instability will be frustrated by t' for each of the dimerized states. The Peierls transition itself, as well as its suppression by t', may be of second- or first-order. (ii). When the two dimerized states are considered jointly, one of them will dominate the other depending on parameters t' and T. Two successive Peierls transitions, that is, the system passing from the uniform state to one dimerized state and then to the other may take place with decrease of temperature. Implications of our results to real materials are discussed. Received 31 July 2001     

The reconstruction of a spatially incoherent two-dimensional source in an acoustically rigid rectangular cavity

This paper applies Green's function modal expansion techniques to inverse source problems within an acoustically rigid rectangular cavity. In particular, solutions are developed for the reconstruction of a random spatially incoherent distributed source and a deterministic point source by using pressure-field measurements on adjacent walls. Such problems have seemingly not been addressed previously. Several example problems are studied in this paper. As is characteristic of inverse problems in general, numerical instabilities are encountered in the example problems addressed in this paper. These are linked to the notion of compactness in the forward operator, and dealt with using magnitude regularization and projections onto convex sets. The behavior of the example problems studied in this paper greatly deteriorates at frequencies near cavity resonances, particularly low frequency resonances (i.e., with ka < or = 2pi, where a is the smallest cavity dimension). Other results concerning the example problems are also given. A proof of compactness of an infinite rank version of the type of operator used in this paper is given in the Appendix. This proof implies that the convergence of the Green's function modal expansion in the kernel of the forward problem is related to the instability of the inverse problem. This implies that, if it suffices to know an integral of the source profile rather than the actual profile, the problem becomes more stable.     

Ising model with isotropic competing interactions in the presence of a field

Summary We consider a spin system with competing interactions isotropic with respect to the axes of a cubic lattice in the presence of an external field. We show that for small values of the external fieldH, the paramagnetic to modulated phase transition is fluctuation-induced first order, while for larger fields, such transition changes to continuous at a tricritical point. Applications for fluids systems are proposed. Paper presented at the I International Conference on Scaling Concepts and Complex Fluids, Copanello, Italy, July 4–8, 1994.     

The magnetic susceptibility of two-dimensional Ising model on a finite-size lattice

The form factor representation of the correlation function of the 2D Ising model on a cylinder is generalized to the case of arbitrary arrangement of correlating spins. The magnetic susceptibility on a lattice, one of whose dimensions (N) is finite, is calculated in both the ferromagnetic and the paramagnetic region of the parameters of the model. The structure of singularities of susceptibility in the complex temperature plane at finite values of N and the transition to the thermodynamic limit N→∞ are discussed.