Discontinuity of the magnetization in one-dimensional 1/¦x−y¦2 Ising and Potts models

Results from percolation theory are used to study phase transitions in one-dimensional Ising andq-state Potts models with couplings of the asymptotic formJ _x,y const/¦x–y¦². For translation-invariant systems with well-defined lim _x x ² J _x =J ⁺ (possibly 0 or ) we establish: (1) There is no long-range order at inverse temperatures withJ ⁺1. (2) IfJ ⁺>q, then by sufficiently increasingJ ₁ the spontaneous magnetizationM is made positive. (3) In models with 0<J ⁺< the magnetization is discontinuous at the transition point (as originally predicted by Thouless), and obeysM( _c )1/( _c J ⁺)^1/2. (4) For Ising (q=2) models withJ ⁺<, it is noted that the correlation function decays as xy()c()/|x–y|² whenever< _c . Points 1–3 are deduced from previous percolation results by utilizing the Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation, which also yields other results of independent interest relating Potts models with different values ofq.     

Statistical mechanics of polymer networks of any topology

The statistical mechanics is considered of any polymer network with a prescribed topology, in dimensiond, which was introduced previously. The basic direct renormalization theory of the associated continuum model is established. It has a very simple multiplicative structure in terms of the partition functions of the star polymers constituting the vertices of the network. A calculation is made toO(²), whered=4–, of the basic critical dimensions _L associated with anyL-leg vertex (L1). From this infinite series of critical exponents, any topology-dependent critical exponent can be derived. This is applied to the configuration exponent _G of any networkG toO(²), includingL-leg star polymers. The infinite sets of contact critical exponents between multiple points of polymers or between the cores of several star polymers are also deduced. As a particular case, the three exponents ₀, ₁, ₂ calculated by des Cloizeaux by field-theoretic methods are recovered. The limiting exact logarithmic laws are derived at the upper critical dimensiond=4. The results are generalized to the series of topological exponents of polymer networks near a surface and of tricritical polymers at the-point. Intersection properties of networks of random walks can be studied similarly. The above factorization theory of the partition function of any polymer network over its constitutingL-vertices also applies to two dimensions, where it can be related to conformal invariance. The basic critical exponents _L and thus any topological polymer exponents are then exactly known. Principal results published elsewhere are recalled.     

Generalized q-Modified Laguerre Functions

In this paper we define a new q-special function A _n (x, b, c; q). The new function is a generalization of the q-Laguerre function and the Stieltjes–Wigert function. We deduced all the properties of the function A _n (x, b, c; q). Finally, lim _q1 A _n ((1 – q)x, –, 1;q) gives L _n ^(,)(x,q), which is a -modification of the ordinary Laguerre function.     

Logically independent von Neumann lattices

Three definitions of logical independence of two von Neumann latticesP₁,P₂ of two sub-von Neumann algebras ₁, ₂ of a von Neumann algebra are given and the relations of the definitions clarified. It is shown that under weak assumptions the following notion, called logical independence is the strongest:A B 0 for any 0 A P₁, 0 B P₂. Propositions relating logical independence ofP₁,P₂ toC ^*-independence,W ^* independence, and strict locality of ₁, ₂ are presented.     

Higher Conformal Multifractality

We derive, from conformal invariance and quantum gravity, the multifractal spectrum f() of the harmonic measure (i.e., electrostatic potential, or diffusion field) near any conformally invariant fractal in two dimensions. It gives the Hausdorff dimension of the set of points where the potential varies with distance r to the fractal frontier as r . First examples are a random walk, i.e., a Brownian motion, a self-avoiding walk, or a critical percolation cluster. The generalized dimensions D(n) as well as the multifractal functions f() are derived, and are all identical for these three cases. The external frontiers of a Brownian motion and of a percolation cluster are thus identical to a self-avoiding walk in the scaling limit. The multifractal (MF) function f(,c) of the electrostatic potential near any conformally invariant fractal boundary, like a critical O(N) loop or a Q-state Potts cluster, is given as a function of the central charge c of the associated conformal field theory. The dimensions D _EP of the external perimeter and D _H of the hull of a critical scaling curve or cluster obey the superuniversal duality equation . Finally, for a conformally invariant scaling curve which is simple, i.e., without double points, we derive higher multifractal functions, like the universal function f ₂(,) which gives the Hausdorff dimension of the points where the potential varies jointly with distance r as r on one side of the curve, and as r on the other. The general case of the potential distribution between the branches of a star made of an arbitrary number of scaling paths is also treated. The results apply to critical O(N) loops, Potts clusters, and to the SLE process. We present a duality between external perimeters of Potts clusters and O(N) loops at their critical point, as well as the corresponding duality in the SLE process for =16.     

A theory of 1/f noise

Letu() be an absolutely integrable function and define the random process where thet _i are Poisson arrivals and thes _i, are identically distributed nonnegative random variables. Under routine independence assumptions, one may then calculate a formula for the spectrum ofn(t), S _n(), in terms of the probability density ofs, p_s(). If any probability density p_s() having the property p_s() I for small is substituted into this formula, the calculated S_n() is such that S_n() 1 for small . However, this is not a spectrum of a well-defined random process; here, it is termed alimit spectrum. If a probability density having the property p_s() for small , where > 0, is substituted into the formula instead, a spectrum is calculated which is indeed the spectrum of a well-defined random process. Also, if the latter p_s is suitably close to the former p_s, then the spectrum in the second case approximates, to an arbitrary, degree of accuracy, the limit spectrum. It is shown how one may thereby have 1/f noise with low-frequency turnover, and also strict 1/f ^1– noise (the latter spectrum being integrable for > 0). Suitable examples are given. Actually, u() may be itself a random process, and the theory is developed on this basis.     

Photometric and fluorimetric study of the acid-base behavior of 2,2′-diquinolyl and 2,2′,2″-terpyridyl

A photometric and fluorimetric study of the acid-base behavior of 2,2-diquinolyl and 2,2,2-terpyridyl was performed. In sulfuric acid medium, the doubly charged 2,2-diquinolynium ion undergoes the first dissociation atH ₀=0.20±0.09, as determined by fluorimetry (_ex=336 nm, _em=424 nm). Photometric titration is less accurate because of the overlapping of the absorption spectra. The second dissociation constant of 2,2-diquinolyl was determined by fluorimetric titration (_ex=336 nm, _em=420 nm), obtaining a value of 3.67±0.03. The triply charged 2,2,2-terpyridyl molecule was found to undergo the first dissociation atH ₀=–7.17±0.04, as determined by fluorimetric titration (_ex=316 nm, _em=350 nm), in aqueous sulfuric acid medium. Photometric titration (=335 nm) was performed in the presence of 6.5% ethanol because of the low solubility of the compound in water. In this ethanolicwater medium, a value of the dissociation constant atH ₀=–7.39±0.03 was calculated. The second dissociation constant was determined to be 2.81±0.12 by photometric titration at 285 nm, and values of 4.03±0.26 and 4.16±0.20 were found for the third dissociation constant by photometric titrations at 320 and 295 nm, in 10% ethanol, in close agreement with previously reported values. The fluorimetric titration profile obtained by exciting at 274 nm and measuring the fluorescence emission at 350 nm, in the zone betweenH ₀=–3 and pH=10, is complicated by the several equilibria involved.     

The 1/D expansion for low-dimensional classical magnets

The physical characteristics of two-dimensional classical ferro- and antiferro-magnets have been calculated in the whole temperature range by an analytical approach based on the expansion in powers of 1/D, whereD is the number of spin components. This approach works rather well since it yields exact results for antiferromagnetic susceptibility and specific heat atT=0 already in the first order in 1/D and it is consistent with HTSE at high temperatures. For the quantities singular atT=0, such as ferromagnetic susceptibility and correlation length, the 1/D expansion supports their general-D functional form in the low-temperature range obtained by Fukugita and Oyanagi. The critical index calculated in the first order in 1/D proves to be temperature dependent: =20/(D) (=T/T _c ^(MFT) ,T _c ^(MFT) =J ₀/D, J ₀ is the zero Fourier component of the exchange interaction).     

An approximation method to solve Einstein's field equations on a curved background metric

An approximation method is developed to calculate the gravitational field of a matter sourceT moving on a curved background metric that is an exact solution of the field equations and deviates only weakly from flat space-time. The fieldh of the sourceT is supposed to be much smaller than the curved part of the background, so that in the series expansion ofh each order can be expanded in powers of the background.     

Magnetic Properties of Np2Ir2In Investigated by 237Np Mössbauer Spectroscopy

The present study of Np₂Ir₂In completes the ²³⁷Np Mössbauer spectroscopy investigations of Np₂T₂X (T = Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt; X = In, Sn) compounds. Np₂Ir₂In is found to order at T _ord30 K and the complex Mössbauer spectra suggest the occurrence of a noncollinear modulated magnetic structure with an average magnetic moment on the neptunium _Np0.76 _B. The magnetic properties of Np₂Ir₂In are consistent with the general trends observed in the An₂T₂X (An =U, Np) isostructural family.     

Symmetries and correlation inequalities for classicaln-vector models

We describe a new class of single spin measures on then-dimensional sphereS _r ⁿ of radiusr (n 4) for which Lebowitz-type [J. Lebowitz,J. Stat. Phys. 16:463 (1977)] inequalities hold. This is achieved by an appropriate parametrization ofS _r ⁿ . The above class includes the uniform measures onxs Rⁿ ¦x¦ r for any 0 p r. The second topic of this paper is an abstract formulation of the first Griffiths inequality [R. B. Griffiths,J. Math. Phys. 8:478 (1967)] and the underlying symmetry property.     

The rastall model and Stapp's proof of nonlocality

Recently two distinct arguments have been given (by Stapp, and Bedford and Stapp) to prove that a model proposed by Rastall for the statistics of EPR-correlated spin-1/2 particles, which happens to violate the Bell inequality, conflicts with locality. Neither argument makes use of the fact that the Rastall model violates the Bell inequality; therefore both seem to provide independent support for a more general proof of Stapp's, which allegedly establishes that any model violating this inequality, including quantum mechanics, must imply the existence of nonlocal influences. However, it is shown here that both of these arguments are invalid under an indeterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics, a conclusion which agrees with the same criticism made by other authors but directed against Stapp's more general proof of nonlocality.2. For a clarification and defence of Kraus' claim, see the discussion of the broken square problem in [7], Sec. 2.1.3. These strict [anti-] correlations do not rigorously exclude the possibility that the L and R meterscould register +1, –1 [+1, +1] or –1, +1 [–1, –1] for any pair in the measured sample; by the law of large numbers, they only render these possibilities highly improbable. However, I shall follow Rastall, Bedford and Stapp in regarding such possibilities as strictly impossible (cf. also Note 9).4. Eberhard, himself, uses his discovery that matching is sufficient for BI to attempt a proof, in the style of Stapp [1], that BILOC.5. A world or state of affairs is properly specified only after a list of the truth values forall of the propositions describingall of the events which occur in that world is provided. Since there exist various possible permutations of these truth values, we must hypothetically consider, for instance in the first part of this example, the two (in general, uncountably infinite)classes of worlds: those with the meters set to measurea andc and those with the meters set toa andd. Each class can be further divided into subclasses according to the values that the various responses take on in each world. The idea that a counterfactual supposition leads to a class of worldssufficiently similar (by some standard of similarity) to the actual world is exploited in Lewis' [13] semantics for counterfactuals; but I shall not need to adopt any particular semantics of counterfactuals here beyond using some standard valid inferences involving them.6. To be fully rigorous, this demand should be broken down into: (a) supposing that RM is true at the actual world; and (b) demanding that the truth of physical laws as depicted by RM be independent of whether or not measurements are undertaken. For a more thorough discussion, see the justification of the principle CUW in [7].7. Kraus [14] objects to Stapp's argument on the grounds that it invokes concepts without direct observational meaning. But presumably then he would rejectany use of counterfactuals (including their use in Stapp's more general proof) on the same grounds. Also, it is worth adding (to Stapp's [5] own reply to Kraus) that Kraus' additional charge that Stapp's argument is suspect because it uses the language of things waiting to be measured if and when the appropriate instrument is applied misinterprets Stapp's [6] use of the word thing. For this word is used in a sense equivalent to what I have called response; and, by definition, responses are (in general, counterfactually)measured values having nothing to do with entities apart from measurement.8. Although these authors choose Lewis' semantics for analyzing counterfactuals (cf. Note 5) in their critiques, their arguments do not turn upon this choice but are motivated on physical grounds. For the same critique without the Lewis framework see [18] and my (slightly different) argument in the text.9. Strictly speaking, since improbability does not imply impossibility (cf. Note 3), the conditionals in the RM premisses of Parts 1 and 2 must also be weakened to conditionals, which weakens C1 and C2 in the same way, and hencealso undermines Stapp's argument.10. Towards the end of their paper, BS restate UR in a way that lends it easily to confusion with the stronger statement for every measurementM, there exists a particular measurement resultx, such that anM measurementwould yieldx (cf. [7] for a discussion of further instances where this confusion has occurred). Sincex = +1 or –1, this statement implies that every measurement eitherwould yield +1or would yield –1, which (as we have seen) implies determinism. (The difference between this statement and the weaker (uncontroversial) UR I adopt in the text is that the former can be obtained from the latter by distributing the would over the disjunction or.) If UR were interpreted in this stronger sense, so as to make it imply determinism (rather than just determinateness of responses in each world), then the Stapp and BS proofs could go through; although, obviously, UR would then have to be rejected by the indeterminist.     

On the Hamiltonian interpolation of near-to-the identity symplectic mappings with application to symplectic integration algorithms

We reconsider the problem of the Hamiltonian interpolation of symplectic mappings. Following Moser's scheme, we prove that for any mapping , analytic and -close to the identity, there exists an analytic autonomous Hamiltonian system, H such that its time-one mapping _H differs from by a quantity exponentially small in 1/. This result is applied, in particular, to the problem of numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems by symplectic algorithms; it turns out that, when using an analytic symplectic algorithm of orders to integrate a Hamiltonian systemK, one actually follows exactly, namely within the computer roundoff error, the trajectories of the interpolating Hamiltonian H, or equivalently of the rescaled Hamiltonian K=^-1H, which differs fromK, but turns out to be ⁵ close to it. Special attention is devoted to numerical integration for scattering problems.     

The asymmetric contact process at its second critical value

The asymmetric contact process onZ has two distinct critical values ₁ > ₂ (at least with sufficient asymmetry). One can consider the process on {0,...,N} and analyze the time (which we call _N ) till complete vacany starting from complete occupation. Its behavior has already been resolved for all regions of except for =₂. For this value, Schinazi proved that lim _N log _N /logN=2 in probability and conjectured that _N /N ² converges in distribution. It is that result that we prove in this paper. We rely heavily on the Brownian motion behavior of the edge particle, which comes from Galves and Presutti and Kuczek.     

Magnetic penetration depth in V3Si and LiTi2O4 measured by μSR

Muon spin relaxation (SR) studies have been performed in the normal spinel LiTi₂O₄ and the A-15 superconductor V₃Si to measure the magnetic penetration depth . The relaxation rate(T) 1/² in field-cooled measurements shows a sharp increase belowT _c followed by saturation at low temperatures in both systems. This feature implies an isotropic energy gap without anomalous zeros, and most likelys-wave pairing. The low temperature penetration depth (T 0) is determined to be 2100Å for LiTi₂O₄ and 1300Å for V₃Si respectively. Assuming a clean limit relation ^–2 n _s /m ^*, we derive the Fermi temperatureT _F n _s/ ^2/3 m ^* from the relaxation rate and the Sommerfeld constant asT _F ^3/4–1/4. Unlike conventional superconductors, both LiTi₂O₄ and V₃Si have a large ratio ofT _c /T _F 0.01, only slightly smaller than those ratios in more exotic superconductors.We thank C. Ballard and K. Hoyle for technical assistance. Work at Columbia University is supported by NSF Grant No. DMR-89-13784 and Packard Foundation (YJU). Ames Laboratory is operated for the U. S. Department of Energy by Iowa State University under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-82. Work at Ames was supported by the Director for Energy Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.     

Fractional noise

Fractional noiseN(t),t 0, is a stochastic process for every , and is defined as the fractional derivative or fractional integral of white noise. For = 1 we recover Brownian motion and for = 1/2 we findf ^–1-noise. For 1/2 1, a superposition of fractional noise is related to the fractional diffusion equation.     

Surviving extrema for the action on the twisted SU(∞) one point lattice

We give a simplified construction of twist eating configurations, based on a theorem due to Frobenius. These configurations are defined through the equation:U U U ⁺ U ⁺ =exp(2in /N) withU SU(N), =1 tod andn an antisymmetric matrix with integer entries. In the (Twisted)-Eguchi-Kawai model they yield extrema some of which survive forN. Comparison is made with the Monte Carlo data of the internal energy in the small coupling region.     

Strict inequalities for some critical exponents in two-dimensional percolation

For 2D percolation we slightly improve a result of Chayes and Chayes to the effect that the critical exponent for the percolation probability isstrictly less than 1. The same argument is applied to prove that ifL():={(x, y):x=r cos, y=r sin for some r0, or} and():=limpp _c [log(p–p _c )]^–1 log P_cr {itO is connected to by an occupied path inL()}, then() is strictly decreasing in on [0, 2]. Similarly, lim_n [–logn]^–1 logP _cr {itO is connected by an occupied path inL()() to the exterior of [–n, n]×[–n, n] is strictly decreasing in on [0, 2].     

Interaction of conduction electrons with local excitations. The infrared divergencies

Using the renormalization group method the higher orders of perturbation theory in the interaction of conduction electrons in metals with local paulions (pseudospins), e.g. two-level systems, crystal-field excitations, and bosons, e.g. phonons, are considered. For the paulions, the lowest order logarithmic singularities in the electron self-energy at =E–E _F±, being the splitting, become weaker, at least in the commutative model. It is shown that the singularities of the type ln are absent. This justifies the applicability of the second order perturbation theory resultm ^{* –1} for the electron effective mass even atm ^*m. For the phonons, the singularities at ±₀, ₀ being the phonon frequency, may become stronger or weaker depending on the conduction band filling and the anharmonic contribution to the deformation potential. The singular contributions to the local excitation Green's function are calculated. They result in the change of the line shape of the local level (the orthogonality catastrophe). The singular terms in the ground state energy and average pseudospin are considered.     

Nelson's symmetry and the infinite volume behavior of the vacuum inP(φ)2

LetH _l be the Hamiltonian in aP()₂ theory with sharp space cutoff in the interval (–l/2,l/2). LetE _l =inf(H _l ), (l)=–E _l /l, and let _l be the vacuum forH _l . discuss properties of (l) and _l . In particular, asl, there are finite constants <0 and such that (l), ((l)–)l, and hence (l)=+/l+o(l ^–1). Moreover exp(–c ₁ l) _{l 1}exp(–c ₂ l) forc ₁,c ₂ positive constants, where _{l 1} is theL ¹(Q, d₀) norm of ₁ with respect to the Fock vacuum measure. We also present a new proof of recent estimates of Glimm and Jaffe on local perturbations ofH _l in the infinite volume limit.Research sponsored by AFOSR under Contract No. F44620-71-C-0108.On leave from Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Universitá di Napoli and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli.A. Sloan Foundation Fellow.