Quantum statistical mechanics of Frenkel-Kontorova chains
Speaker:
Robert MacKay, Alan Turing Institute and University of Warwick
Date and Time:
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 11:00am to 12:10pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We extend a renormalisation operator for the transition by breaking of analyticity of incommensurate minimum energy states of Frenkel-Kontorova chains to one for the quantum statistical mechanics. The known fixed point for the former operator induces two for the latter, both at temperature zero, with β~ = 0 and ∞, respectively. Scaling exponents are deduced from the those for the former case. This is joint work with N.Catarino.