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Ian Jauslin

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arXiv2026

Lee-Yang Zeros And Particle Fluctuations

We consider classical particles in the continuum in the grand canonical ensemble, with a stable, tempered and lower-regular pair potential and boundary conditions of uniformly bounded density. We prove that if the Lee--Yang zeros of the grand canonical partition function in the complex fugacity plane $z = e^{\beta\mu}$ remain bounded away from a real point $z_0 > 0$ for all sufficiently large volumes, then along cubes the thermodynamic limit and differentiation commute at $z_0$: every derivative of the finite-volume pressure in the chemical potential converges, uniformly in a neighborhood of $z_0$, to the corresponding derivative of the limiting pressure. The limiting values of all derivatives are independent of the boundary condition; in particular, the density and the particle-number variance per unit volume converge to $\beta^{-1}\partial_\mu p$ and $\beta^{-2}\partial^{2}_{\mu} p$, respectively. The result extends to the unbounded boundary conditions of Procacci and Yuhjtman for super-stable potentials in addition to Ruelle's tempered boundary conditions.

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arXiv2025

Liquid-vapor transition in a model of a continuum particle system with finite-range modified Kac pair potential

We prove the existence of a phase transition in dimension $d>1$ in a continuum particle system interacting with a pair potential containing a modified attractive Kac potential of range $\gamma^{-1}$, with $\gamma>0$. This transition is "close", for small positive $\gamma$, to the one proved previously by Lebowitz and Penrose in the van der Waals limit $\gamma\downarrow0$. It is of the type of the liquid-vapor transition observed when a fluid, like water, heated at constant pressure, boils at a given temperature. Previous results on phase transitions in continuum systems with stable potentials required the use of unphysical four-body interactions or special symmetries between the liquid and vapor. The pair interaction we consider is obtained by partitioning space into cubes of volume $\gamma^{-d}$, and letting the Kac part of the pair potential be uniform in each cube and act only between adjacent cubes. The "short-range" part of the pair potential is quite general (in particular, it may or may not include a hard core), but restricted to act only between particles in the same cube. Our setup, the "boxed particle model", is a special case of a general "spin" system, for which we establish a first-order phase transition using reflection positivity and the Dobrushin--Shlosman criterion.

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arXiv2025

Incommensurate Twisted Bilayer Graphene: emerging quasi-periodicity and stability

We consider a lattice model of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) for incommensurate twist angles, focusing on the role of large-momentum-transfer Umklapp terms. These terms, which nearly connect the Fermi points of different layers, are typically neglected in effective continuum descriptions but could, in principle, destroy the Dirac cones; they are indeed closely analogous to those appearing in fermions within quasi-periodic potentials, where they play a crucial role. We prove that, for small but finite interlayer coupling, the semimetallic phase is stable provided the angles belong to a fractal set of large measure (which decreases with the hopping strength) characterized by a number-theoretic Diophantine condition. In particular, this set excludes the (zero measure) commensurate angles. Our method combines a Renormalization Group (RG) analysis of the imaginary-time, zero-temperature Green's functions, with number theoretic properties, and it is similar to the technique used in the Lindstedt series approach to Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theory. The convergence of the resulting series allows us to rule out non-perturbative effects. The result provides a partial justification of the effective continuum description of TBG in which such large-momentum interlayer hopping processes are neglected.

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arXiv2024

High-fugacity expansion and crystallization in non-sliding hard-core lattice particle models without a tiling constraint

In this paper, we prove the existence of a crystallization transition for a family of hard-core particle models on periodic graphs in arbitrary dimensions. We establish a criterion under which crystallization occurs at sufficiently high densities. The criterion is more general than that in [Jauslin, Lebowitz, Comm. Math. Phys. 364:2, 2018], as it allows models in which particles do not tile the space in the close-packing configurations, such as discrete hard-disk models. To prove crystallization, we prove that the pressure is analytic in the inverse of the fugacity for large enough complex fugacities, using Pirogov-Sinai theory. One of the main tools used for this result is the definition of a local density, based on a discrete generalization of Voronoi cells. We illustrate the criterion by proving that it applies to two examples: staircase models and the radius 2.5 hard-disk model on the square lattice.

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arXiv2023

An Introduction to Lieb's Simplified approach to the Bose gas

This is a book about Lieb's Simplified approach to the Bose gas, which is a family of effective single-particle equations to study the ground state of many-body systems of interacting Bosons. It was introduced by Lieb in 1963, and recently found to have some rather intriguing properties. One of the equations of the approach, called the Simple equation, has been proved to make a prediction for the ground state energy that is asymptotically accurate both in the low- and the high-density regimes. Its predictions for the condensate fraction, two-point correlation function, and momentum distribution also agree with those of Bogolyubov theory at low density, despite the fact that it is based on ideas that are very different from those of Bogolyubov theory. In addition, another equation of the approach called the Big equation has been found to yield numerically accurate results for these observables over the entire range of densities for certain interaction potentials. This book is an introduction to Lieb's Simplified approach, and little background knowledge is assumed. We begin with a discussion of Bose gases and quantum statistical mechanics, and the notion of Bose-Einstein condensation, which is one of the main motivations for the approach. We then move on to an abridged bibliographical overview on known theorems and conjectures about Bose gases in the thermodynamic limit. Next, we introduce Lieb's Simplified approach, and its derivation from the many-body problem. We then give an overview of results, both analytical and numerical, on the predictions of the approach. We then conclude with a list of open problems.

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arXiv2023

The Simplified approach to the Bose gas without translation invariance

The Simplified approach to the Bose gas was introduced by Lieb in 1963 to study the ground state of systems of interacting Bosons. In a series of recent papers, it has been shown that the Simplified approach exceeds earlier expectations, and gives asymptotically accurate predictions at both low and high density. In the intermediate density regime, the qualitative predictions of the Simplified approach have also been found to agree very well with Quantum Monte Carlo computations. Until now, the Simplified approach had only been formulated for translation invariant systems, thus excluding external potentials, and non-periodic boundary conditions. In this paper, we extend the formulation of the Simplified approach to a wide class of systems without translation invariance. This also allows us to study observables in translation invariant systems whose computation requires the symmetry to be broken. Such an observable is the momentum distribution, which counts the number of particles in excited states of the Laplacian. In this paper, we show how to compute the momentum distribution in the Simplified approach, and show that, for the Simple Equation, our prediction matches up with Bogolyubov's prediction at low densities, for momenta extending up to the inverse healing length.

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arXiv2023

Evidence of a liquid phase in interacting Bosons at intermediate densities

In this paper, we present evidence for a liquid-like phase in systems of many interacting Bosons at intermediate densities. The interacting Bose gas has been studied extensively in the low and high density regimes, in which interactions do not play a physically significant role, and the system behaves similarly to the ideal quantum gas. Instead, we will turn our attention to the intermediate density regime, and report evidence that the system enters a strongly correlated phase where its behavior is markedly different from that of the ideal quantum gas. To do so, we use the Simplified approach to the Bose gas, which was introduced by Lieb in 1963 and recently found to provide very accurate predictions for many-Boson systems at all densities. Using this tool, we will compute predictions for the radial distribution function, structure factor, condensate fraction and momentum distribution, and show that they are consistent with liquid-type behavior.

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arXiv2022

Non-perturbative Solution of the 1d Schrodinger Equation Describing Photoemission from a Sommerfeld model Metal by an Oscillating Field

We analyze non-perturbatively the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation describing the emission of electrons from a model metal surface by a classical oscillating electric field. Placing the metal in the half-space $x\leqslant 0$, the Schrödinger equation of the system is $i\partial_tψ=-\frac12\partial_x^2ψ+Θ(x) (U-E x \cosωt)ψ$, $t>0$, $x\in\mathbb R$, where $Θ(x)$ is the Heaviside function and $U>0$ is the effective confining potential (we choose units so that $m=e=\hbar=1$). The amplitude $E$ of the external electric field and the frequency $ω$ are arbitrary. We prove existence and uniqueness of classical solutions of this equation for general initial conditions $ψ(x,0)=f(x)$, $x\in\mathbb R$. When the initial condition is in $L^2$ the evolution is unitary and the wave function goes to zero at any fixed $x$ as $t\to\infty$. To show this we prove a RAGE type theorem and show that the discrete spectrum of the quasienergy operator is empty. To obtain positive electron current we consider non-$L^2$ initial conditions containing an incoming beam from the left. The beam is partially reflected and partially transmitted for all $t>0$. For these we show that the solution approaches in the large $t$ limit a periodic state that satisfies an infinite set of equations formally derived by Faisal, et. al. Due to a number of pathological features of the Hamiltonian (among which unboundedness in the physical as well as the spatial Fourier domain) the existing methods to prove such results do not apply, and we introduce new, more general ones. The actual solution exhibits a very complex behavior. It shows a steep increase in the current as the frequency passes a threshold value $ω=ω_c$, with $ω_c$ depending on the strength of the electric field. For small $E$, $ω_c$ represents the threshold in the classical photoelectric effect.

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arXiv2022

Random translation-invariant Hamiltonians and their spectral gaps

We consider random translation-invariant frustration-free quantum spin Hamiltonians on $\mathbb Z^D$ in which the nearest-neighbor interaction in every direction is randomly sampled and then distributed across the lattice. Our main result is that, under a small rank constraint, the Hamiltonians are automatically frustration-free and they are gapped with a positive probability. This extends previous results on 1D spin chains to all dimensions. The argument additionally controls the local gap. As an application, we obtain a 2D area law for a cut-dependent ground state via recent AGSP methods of Anshu-Arad-Gosset.

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arXiv2022

The Hierarchical Graphene model

The hierarchical graphene model is a simple toy model which is useful to understand the mechanics of renormalization group flows in super-renormalizable systems. It is based on a model of interacting electrons in graphene, for which the renormalization group analysis was carried out by Giuliani and Mastropietro. The analysis of the hierarchical graphene model is significantly simpler than graphene, but one should not expect it to produce good quantitative results about real-world graphene. Rather, the hierarchical model is useful as a teaching tool to understand the core concepts of renormalization group techniques. In this paper, we will first introduce a model for electrons in graphene and set it up for a renormalization group treatment by introducing its Grassmann representation and scale decomposition. We then define the hierarchical graphene model and study it's renormalization group flow. From a renormalization group point of view, graphene is quite simple: it is super-renormalizable. As an illustration of a more complicated system, we repeat the analysis for the Kondo model, which is a strongly coupled model with a non-trivial fixed point.

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arXiv2022

Review of a Simplified Approach to study the Bose gas at all densities

In this paper, we will review the results obtained thus far by Eric A. Carlen, Elliott H. Lieb and me on a Simplified Approach to the Bose gas. The Simplified Approach yields a family of effective one-particle equations, which capture some non-trivial physical properties of the Bose gas at both low and high densities, and even some of the behavior at intermediate densities. In particular, the Simplified Approach reproduces Bogolyubov's estimates for the ground state energy and condensate fraction at low density, as well as the mean-field estimate for the energy at high densities. We will also discuss a phase that appears at intermediate densities with liquid-like properties. The simplest of the effective equations in the Simplified Approach can be studied analytically, and we will review several results about it; the others are so far only amenable to numerical analysis, and we will discuss several numerical results. We will start by reviewing some results and conjectures on the Bose gas, and then introduce the Simplified Approach and its derivation from the Bose gas. We will then discuss the predictions of the Simplified Approach and compare these to results and conjectures about the Bose gas. Finally, we will discuss a few open problems about the Simplified Approach.

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arXiv2021

Analysis of a simple equation for the ground state of the Bose gas II: Monotonicity, Convexity and Condensate Fraction

In a recent paper we studied an equation (called the "simple equation") introduced by one of us in 1963 for an approximate correlation function associated to the ground state of an interacting Bose gas. Solving the equation yields a relation between the density $ρ$ of the gas and the energy per particle. Our construction of solutions gave a well-defined function $ρ(e)$ for the density as a function of the energy $e$. We had conjectured that $ρ(e)$ is a strictly monotone increasing function, so that it can be inverted to yield the strictly monotone increasing function $e(ρ)$. We had also conjectured that $ρe(ρ)$ is convex as a function of $ρ$. We prove both conjectures here for small densities, the context in which they have the most physical relevance, and the monotonicity also for large densities. Both conjectures are grounded in the underlying physics, and their proof provides further mathematical evidence for the validity of the assumptions underlying the derivation of the simple equation, at least for low or high densities, if not intermediate densities, although the equation gives surprisingly good predictions for all densities $ρ$. Another problem left open in our previous paper was whether the simple equation could be used to compute accurate predictions of observables other than the energy. Here, we provide a recipe for computing predictions for any one- or two-particle observables for the ground state of the Bose gas. We focus on the condensate fraction and the momentum distribution, and show that they have the same low density asymptotic behavior as that predicted for the Bose gas. Along with the computation of the low density energy of the simple equation in our previous paper, this shows that the simple equation reproduces the known and conjectured properties of the Bose gas at low densities.

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arXiv2021

On the convolution inequality $f \geq f\star f$

We consider the inequality $f \geqslant f\star f$ for real integrable functions on $d$ dimensional Euclidean space where $f\star f$ denotes the convolution of $f$ with itself. We show that all such functions $f$ are non-negative, which is not the case for the same inequality in $L^p$ for any $1 < p \leqslant 2$, for which the convolution is defined. We also show that all integrable solutions $f$ satisfy $\int f(x){\rm d}x \leqslant \tfrac12$. Moreover, if $\int f(x){\rm d}x = \tfrac12$, then $f$ must decay fairly slowly: $\int |x| f(x){\rm d}x = \infty$, and this is sharp since for all $r< 1$, there are solutions with $\int f(x){\rm d}x = \tfrac12$ and $\int |x|^r f(x){\rm d}x <\infty$. However, if $\int f(x){\rm d}x = : a < \tfrac12$, the decay at infinity can be much more rapid: we show that for all $a<\tfrac12$, there are solutions such that for some $ε>0$, $\int e^{ε|x|}f(x){\rm d}x < \infty$.

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arXiv2021

A simplified approach to the repulsive Bose gas from low to high densities and its numerical accuracy

In 1963, a Simple Approach was developed to study the ground state energy of an interacting Bose gas. It consists in the derivation of an Equation, which is not based on perturbation theory, and which gives the exact expansion of the energy at low densities. This Equation is expressed directly in the thermodynamic limit, and only involves functions of $3$ variables, rather than $3N$. Here, we revisit this approach, and show that the Equation yields accurate predictions for various observables for all densities. Specifically, in addition to the ground state energy, we have shown that the Simple Approach gives predictions for the condensate fraction, two-point correlation function, and momentum distribution. We have carried out a variety of tests by comparing the predictions of the Equation with Quantum Monte Carlo calculations, and have found remarkable agreement. We thus show that the Simple Approach provides a new theoretical tool to understand the behavior of the many-body Bose gas, not only in the small and large density ranges, which have been studied before, but also in the range of intermediate density, for which little is known.

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arXiv2020

A Theorem on Ellipses, an Integrable System and a Theorem of Boltzmann

We study a mechanical system that was considered by Boltzmann in 1868 in the context of the derivation of the canonical and microcanonical ensembles. This system was introduced as an example of ergodic dynamics, which was central to Boltzmann's derivation. It consists of a single particle in two dimensions, which is subjected to a gravitational attraction to a fixed center. In addition, an infinite plane is fixed at some finite distance from the center, which acts as a hard wall on which the particle collides elastically. Finally, an extra centrifugal force is added. We will show that, in the absence of this extra centrifugal force, there are two independent integrals of motion. Therefore the extra centrifugal force is necessary for Boltzmann's claim of ergodicity to hold.

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arXiv2020

Analysis of a simple equation for the ground state energy of the Bose gas

In 1963 a partial differential equation with a convolution non-linearity was introduced in connection with a quantum mechanical many-body problem, namely the gas of bosonic particles. This equation is mathematically interesting for several reasons. (1) Although the equation was expected to be valid only for small values of the parameters, further investigation showed that predictions based on the equation agree well over the {\it entire range} of parameters with what is expected to be true for the solution of the true many-body problem. (2) The novel nonlinearity is easy to state but seems to have almost no literature up to now. (3) The earlier work did not prove existence and uniqueness of a solution, which we provide here along with properties of the solution such as decay at infinity.

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arXiv2020

Exact solution of the Schrodinger equation for photoemission from a metal

We solve rigorously the time dependent Schrödinger equation describing electron emission from a metal surface by a laser field perpendicular to the surface. We consider the system to be one-dimensional, with the half-line $x<0$ corresponding to the bulk of the metal and $x>0$ to the vacuum. The laser field is modeled as a classical electric field oscillating with frequency $ω$, acting only at $x>0$. We consider an initial condition which is a stationary state of the system without a field, and, at time $t=0$, the field is switched on. We prove the existence of a solution $ψ(x,t)$ of the Schrödinger equation for $t>0$, and compute the surface current. The current exhibits a complex oscillatory behavior, which is not captured by the "simple" three step scenario. As $t\to\infty$, $ψ(x,t)$ converges with a rate $t^{-\frac32}$ to a time periodic function with period $\frac{2π}ω$ which coincides with that found by Faisal, Kamiński and Saczuk (Phys Rev A 72, 023412, 2015). However, for realistic values of the parameters, we have found that it can take quite a long time (over 50 laser periods) for the system to converge to its asymptote. Of particular physical importance is the current averaged over a laser period $\frac{2π}ω$, which exhibits a dramatic increase when $\hbarω$ becomes larger than the work function of the metal, which is consistent with the original photoelectric effect.

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arXiv2019

Solution of the time dependent Schrödinger equation leading to Fowler-Nordheim field emission

We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation describing the emission of electrons from a metal surface by an external electric field $E$, turned on at $t=0$. Starting with a wave function $ψ(x,0)$, representing a generalized eigenfunction when $E=0$, we find $ψ(x,t)$ and show that it approaches, as $t\to\infty$, the Fowler-Nordheim tunneling wavefunction $ψ_E$. The deviation of $ψ$ from $ψ_E$ decays asymptotically as a power law $t^{-\frac32}$. The time scales involved for typical metals and fields of several V/nm are of the order of femtoseconds.

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