量子场论方法在电子与分子碰撞中的应用

这是一种利用量子场论所进行的探究性的研究方法,在文章中,我们设 计了一种新的较为简单的电子-原子碰撞模型,将量子场论方法与光学势方法中的可加性规 则结合起来.利用这种模型,我们计算了e-H,e-He和e-Li的微分碰撞截面,获得了较满意的 结果.     

Exact form factors in integrable quantum field theories: the sine-Gordon model (II)

A general model independent approach using the ‘off-shell Bethe Ansatz’ is presented to obtain an integral representation of generalized form factors. The general techniques are applied to the quantum sine-Gordon model alias the massive Thirring model. Exact expressions of all matrix elements are obtained for several local operators. In particular soliton form factors of charge-less operators as for example all higher currents are investigated. It turns out that the various local operators correspond to specific scalar functions called p-functions. The identification of the local operators is performed. In particular the exact results are checked with Feynman graph expansion and full agreement is found. Furthermore all eigenvalues of the infinitely many conserved charges are calculated and the results agree with what is expected from the classical case. Within the frame work of integrable quantum field theories a general model independent ‘crossing’ formula is derived. Furthermore the ‘bound state intertwiners’ are introduced and the bound state form factors are investigated. The general results are again applied to the sine-Gordon model. The integrations are performed and in particular for the lowest breathers a simple formula for generalized form factors is obtained.     

Topological representations of quantum groups and conformal field theory

These are three introductory lectures on the relation between representations of affine Kac-Moody algebras, homology of configuration spaces with local coefficient systems, and quantum groups. The first lecture contains background on highest weight representations of affine Kac-Moody algebras. In the second lecture, conformal blocks, the Friedan-Shenker connection and the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (KZ) equation are reviewed. In the third lecture, the case of sl_z is studied in more detail. Integral representations of solutions of the KZ equation are derived, and recent results, obtained in collaboration with C. Wieczerkowski, on the relation between integration cycles and representations of U_q (sl₂) are explained.     

低维量子磁性和量子海森伯反铁磁体之有效场论

文章对低维量子磁性的基本问题和相关研究进展作了简单评述，强调了量子非线性Sigma模型在研究量子海森伯反铁磁体的低能物理方面所起的作用以及理论本身存在的疑难问题，并简单介绍了作者最近提出的克服这些疑难问题的一个新建议．     

Exactly solvable models of conformal-invariant quantum field theory in D-dimensional space

The method for exact solution of a certain class of models of conformal quantum field theory in D-dimensional Euclidean space is proposed. The method allows one to derive closed differential equations for all the Green functions and also algebraic equations to scale dimensions of all field. A scalar field P of a scale dimension d_p = D − 2 is needed for nontrivial solutions to exist. At D ≠ 2 this field is converted to a constant that coincides with the central charge of two-dimensional theories. A new class of D = 2 models has been obtained, where the infinite-parametric symmetry is not manifest. The two-dimensional Wess-Zumino model is used to illustrate the method of solution.     

原子霍尔效应中复合粒子和场描述

研究了原子霍尔效应中复合粒子描述方法，并进一步给出Chern－Simon－Gross－Pitaevskii(CSGP)有效场描述。研究结果表明从平均场和复合粒子的角度来看原子霍尔效应和电子霍尔效应是一致的。     

压电晶体拉曼散射的统一量子论

发展了拉曼散射的一个广义量子理论，它能同时说明非极性模和极性模的作用.在场论中， 光被纵光学和横光学模的拉曼散射能在一个统一的理论框架内描述. 关键词： 拉曼散射 声子 量子场论     

Quasiparticle excitations in relativistic quantum field theory

We analyze the particle-like excitations arising in relativistic field theories in states different than the vacuum. The basic properties characterizing the quasiparticle propagation are studied using two different complementary methods. First we introduce a frequency-based approach, wherein the quasiparticle properties are deduced from the spectral analysis of the two-point propagators. Second, we put forward a real-time approach, wherein the quantum state corresponding to the quasiparticle excitation is explicitly constructed, and the time-evolution is followed. Both methods lead to the same result: the energy and decay rate of the quasiparticles are determined by the real and imaginary parts of the retarded self-energy, respectively. Both approaches are compared, on the one hand, with the standard field-theoretic analysis of particles in the vacuum and, on the other hand, with the mean-field-based techniques in general backgrounds.     

Search for minimal quantum group SUq(2) gauge field theory

Different possibilities for the introduction of quantum group gauge fields are discussed. The case of the quantum group SU_q(2) is considered in more detail. We seek for a construction of the quantum group gauge fields which possesses a minimal set of usual c-number fields. It turns out that in this construction the components of the quantum group gauge field take values in the quantum Euclidean space.     

A discrete approach to topological quantum field theories

First, we describe a rather general scheme for constructing three-dimensional euclidean topological quantum field theories, whose basic building blocks are provided by the representation theory of a certain class of (bi-)algebras. Secondly, we discuss in some detail examples, where the algebra is either the function algebra of a finite group, the group algebra of a finite group or a deformation of the enveloping algebra of a classical simple Lie group.     

A curiosity concerning the role of coherent states in quantum field theory

In the usual Fock quantisation of fields in Minkowski space-time, one has the result that the expectation value of the quantum Hamiltonian in any coherent state equals the energy of the classical field at which the state is peaked. It is shown that this property can be used tocharacterise the usual Fock representation. It is also pointed out that the entire analysis goes through for a substantially more general class of systems including, in particular, Bose fields in arbitrary stationary space-times.     

Quantum field theory cannot provide faster-than-light communication

We spell out a demonstration that, within the framework of quantum field theory, no faster-than-light communication can be established between observers. The steps of the demonstration are detailed enough to pinpoint which properties of the theory have been misinterpreted in previous papers claiming the existence of effects that could permit such communication. The developments described here can also be used to analyze future papers making similar claims.1. This work was supportd by the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.2. In the literature, communication between observers is often referred to as signaling, transmission of a signal, or exchange of information.3. Ref. 3 is an elaboration on a previous paper by the same author [25], whose results were already generalized in Refs. 26 and 27.4. In Ref. 25, it is stated that, if a particle is definitely inV _S at timet = 0, it cannot have a zero probability to be inV _R at two arbitrary but different times, which we callT ₀ andT. We takeT ₀ = 0 for simplicity.     

Entropy and correlators in quantum field theory

It is well known that loss of information about a system, for some observer, leads to an increase in entropy as perceived by this observer. We use this to propose an alternative approach to decoherence in quantum field theory in which the machinery of renormalisation can systematically be implemented: neglecting observationally inaccessible correlators will give rise to an increase in entropy of the system. As an example we calculate the entropy of a general Gaussian state and, assuming the observer's ability to probe this information experimentally, we also calculate the correction to the Gaussian entropy for two specific non-Gaussian states.     

Classical and quantum theory of the massive spin-two field

In this paper, we review classical and quantum field theory of massive non-interacting spin-two fields. We derive the equations of motion and Fierz–Pauli constraints via three different methods: the eigenvalue equations for the Casimir invariants of the Poincaré group, a Lagrangian approach, and a covariant Hamilton formalism. We also present the conserved quantities, the solution of the equations of motion in terms of polarization tensors, and the tree-level propagator. We then discuss canonical quantization by postulating commutation relations for creation and annihilation operators. We express the energy, momentum, and spin operators in terms of the former. As an application, quark–antiquark currents for tensor mesons are presented. In particular, the current for tensor mesons with quantum numbers J^PC=2⁻⁺$J^{PC}=2^{-+}$ is, to our knowledge, given here for the first time.     

The FKG inequality for the Yukawa2 quantum field theory

We establish the FKG correlation inequality for the Euclidean scalar Yukawa₂ quantum field model and, when the Fermi mass is zero, for pseudoscalar Yukawa₂. To do so we approximate the quantum field model by a lattice spin system and show that the FKG inequality for this system follows from a positivity condition on the fundamental solution of the Euclidean Dirac equation with external field. We prove this positivity condition by applying the Vekua-Bers theory of generalized analytic functions.Research partially supported by the National Research Council of Canada.Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow.     

State sum invariants of three-manifolds: A combinatorial approach to topological quantum field theories

The construction of Turaev and Viro involving quantum 6j-symbols and giving rise to invariants of closed, compact three-manifolds is extended. It leads to invariants of coloured graphs on the boundary of compact three-manifolds. This allows one to derive surgery formulas when cutting along an arbitrary two-manifold. In particular all axioms of a topological quantum field theory may be verified and the dimensions of the associated Hilbert spaces are given by the square of the Verlinde formula.     

Dirac operators in Boson-Fermion Fock spaces and supersymmetric quantum field theory

Infinite dimensional analysis is developed on an abstract Boson-Fermion Fock space. A general class of Dirac operators acting there is introduced and properties of them are investigated. An index theorem for the Dirac operators is established in terms of a path integral on a loop space. It is shown that the abstract formalism presented here gives a mathematical unification for some models of supersymmetric quantum field theory.