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Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

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arXiv2003

Breathers in the elliptic sine-Gordon model

We provide new expressions for the scattering amplitudes in the soliton-antisoliton sector of the elliptic sine-Gordon model in terms of cosets of the affine Weyl group corresponding to infinite products of q-deformed gamma functions. When relaxing the usual restriction on the coupling constants, the model contains additional bound states which admit an interpretation as breathers. These breather bound states are unavoidably accompanied by Tachyons. We compute the complete S-matrix describing the scattering of the breathers amonst themselves and with the soliton-antisoliton sector. We carry out various reductions of the model, one of them leading to a new type of theory, namely an elliptic version of the minimal D(n+1)-affine Toda field theory.

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arXiv2003

Applications of quantum integrable systems

We present two applications of quantum integrable systems. First, we predict that it is possible to generate high harmonics from solid state devices by demostrating that the emission spectrum for a minimally coupled laser field of frequency $ω$ to an impurity system of a quantum wire, contains multiples of the incoming frequency. Second, evaluating expressions for the conductance in the high temperature regime we show that the caracteristic filling fractions of the Jain sequence, which occur in the fractional quantum Hall effect, can be obtained from quantum wires which are described by minimal affine Toda field theories.

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arXiv2002

Conductance from Non-perturbative Methods II

This talk provides a natural continuation of the talk presented by Andreas Fring in this conference. Part I was focused on explaining how the DC conductance for a free Fermion theory in the presence of different kinds of defects can be computed by evaluating the Kubo formula. In this talk I will focus on an alternative method for the computation of the same quantity, that is the evaluation of Landauer formula. Once again, the integrability of the theories under consideration will be exploited, since a thermodynamic Bethe ansatz analysis provides all the input needed in that case, apart from the corresponding reflection and transmition amplitudes of the defect. The basic conclusion of our analysis will be the perfect agreement between the two different theoretical descriptions mentioned.

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arXiv2002

Conductance from Non-perturbative Methods I

We investigate different methods to compute the DC conductance in a quantum wire doped with some impuritied by exploiting the integrability of the theories under consideration. As an essential ingredient in all methods we evaluate the reflection and transmission amplitudes ofthe impurities for a variety of defects. When the impurities inthe wire are coupled to an external three dimensional laser field, we predict the generation of harmonic emission spectra. We propose a modified version of the well-known Kubo formula, which incorporates the impurities of the system and evaluate the current-current two-point correlation function it involves with the help of a form factor expansion. A comparison with the corresponding quantities computed in a Landauer transport theory picture is carried out in part II.

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arXiv2001

Bootstrap Methods in 1+1-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories: The Homogeneous Sine-Gordon Models

The bootstrap program for 1+1-dimensional integrable Quantum Field Theories (QFT's) is developed to a large extent for the Homogeneous sine-Gordon (HSG) models. This program can be divided into various steps, which include the computation of the exact S-matrix, Form Factors of local operators and correlation functions, as well as the identification of the operator content of the QFT and the development of various consistency checks. Taking as an input the S-matrix proposal for the HSG-models, we confirm its consistency by carrying out both a Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA) and a Form Factor analysis. In contrast to many other 1+1-dimensional integrable models studied in the literature, the HSG-models break parity, both at the level of the Lagrangian and S-matrix, and their spectrum includes unstable particles. These features have specific consequences in our analysis which are given a physical interpretation. By exploiting the Form Factor approach, we develop further the QFT advocated to the HSG-models. We evaluate correlation functions of various local operators of the model as well as Zamolodchikov's c-function and $Δ$-sum rules. For the $SU(3)_2$-HSG model we show how the form factors of different local operators are interrelated by means of the momentum space cluster property. We find closed formulae for all $n$-particle form factors of a large class of operators of the $SU(N)_2$-HSG models. These formulae are expressed in terms of universal building blocks which allow both a determinant and an integral representation.

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