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The reflection positivity property has played a central role in both mathematics and physics, as well as providing a crucial link between the two subjects. In a previous paper we gave a new geometric approach to understanding reflection…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Arthur Jaffe , Zhengwei Liu

We examine the lattice boundary formulation of chiral fermions with either an explicit Majorana mass or a Higgs-Majorana coupling introduced on one of the boundaries. We demonstrate that the low-lying spectrum of the models with an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Aoki , K. Nagai , S. V. Zenkin

We consider 1D lattices described by Hubbard or Bose-Hubbard models, in the presence of periodic high-frequency perturbations, such as uniform ac force or modulation of hopping coefficients. Effective Hamiltonians for interacting particles…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-18 A. P. Itin , M. I. Katsnelson

We consider translation-invariant interacting particle systems on the lattice with finite local state space admitting at least one Gibbs measure as a time-stationary measure. The dynamics can be irreversible but should satisfy some mild…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Benedikt Jahnel , Christof Kuelske

We prove that the Calogero-Sutherland Model with reflections (the BC_N model) possesses a property of duality relating the eigenfunctions of two Hamiltonians with different coupling constants. We obtain a generating function for their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Serban

For a pseudo-relativistic model of matter, based on the no-pair Hamiltonian, we prove that the inclusion of the interaction with the self-generated magnetic field leads to instability for all positive values of the fine structure constant.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcel Griesemer , Christian Tix

This work lies at the intersection of Gibbs models and hyperuniform point processes. Classical Gibbs models, whether defined on lattices or in continuous space, provide flexible tools to describe interacting particle systems but are…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jean-François Coeurjolly , Christopher Renaud-Chan

We study numerically the formation of Majorana bound states in a finite-size quasi-one-dimensional square-lattice strip with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, in the presence of a proximity-induced superconducting pairing and a magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-23 Selma Franca , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Cristina Bena

In this paper, we study the positivity and (uniform) exponential stability of a large class of perturbed semigroups. Our approach is essentially based on the feedback theory of infinite-dimensional linear systems. The obtained results are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Abed Boulouz , Hamid Bounit , Said Hadd

An expression for the lattice effective action induced by chiral fermions in any even dimensions in terms of an overlap of two states is shown to have promising properties in two dimensions: The correct abelian anomaly is reproduced and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Rajamani Narayanan , Herbert Neuberger

The concept of reflection positivity has its origins in the work of Osterwalder--Schrader on constructive quantum field theory and duality between unitary representations of the euclidean motion group and the Poincare group. On the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Karl-Hermann Neeb , Gestur Olafsson

Physical systems with symmetry arise abundantly in applications, and are endowed with interesting mathematical structures. The present paper focusses on linear reciprocal and input-output Hamiltonian systems. Their characterization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Arjan van der Schaft , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Tom Chaffey

The concept of reflection positivity has its origins in the work of Osterwalder--Schrader on constructive quantum field theory. It is a fundamental tool to construct a relativistic quantum field theory as a unitary representation of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Karl-Hermann Neeb , Gestur Olafsson

One of the most promising proposals for engineering topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions employs a spin-orbit coupled nanowire subjected to a magnetic field and proximate to an s-wave superconductor. When only part of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 L. Fidkowski , J. Alicea , N. Lindner , R. M. Lutchyn , M. P. A. Fisher

We discuss the robustness of Majorana edge modes in a finite quantum nanowire of cylindrical shape. The nanowire is modeled as a bidimensional cylindrical shell of semiconductor material with proximity-induced superconductivity and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Javier Osca , Rosa López , Llorenç Serra

We consider an Hamiltonian with ultraviolet and infrared cutoffs, describing the interaction of relativistic electrons and positrons in the Coulomb potential with photons in Coulomb gauge. The interaction includes both interaction of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -M. Barbaroux , M. Dimassi , J. -C. Guillot

Within a mirror type assignment for the excited composite fermions the neutrino mass term is built up from a Dirac mass, $m_*$, which gives the mass of charged lepton component of the $SU(2)$, right-handed, doublet, and a Majorana mass,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-02 Matteo Presilla , Roberto Leonardi , Orlando Panella

We show that the presence of a lightish scalar resonance, $\sigma$, that mixes with the composite Goldstone-Higgs boson can relax the typical bounds found in this class of models. This mechanism, inbred in models with a walking dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-23 Diogo Buarque Franzosi , Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Aldo Deandrea

A lattice of interacting Majorana modes can occur in a superconducting film on a topological insulator in a magnetic field. The phase diagram as a function of interaction strength for the square lattice was analyzed recently using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-19 Kyle Wamer , Ian Affleck

Through a simple and exact analytical derivation, we show that for a particle on a lattice, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the spectra in the presence of an attractive potential $\hat{V}$ and its repulsive counterpart…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Yogesh N. Joglekar