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We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Li-Yuan Chiang , David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

A model of strongly disordered lattice system with long-range Coulomb interactions between localized charge carriers has been considered. The total electronic energy is characterized by the presence of multiple metastable minima (including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-08 Yuri G. Pogorelov , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , J. M. V. P. Lopes

This paper is dedicated to an application of a quantum wave impedance approach for a study of infinite and semi-infinite periodic systems. Both a Dirac comb and a $\delta-\delta'$ comb as well as a Kronig-Penney model are considered. It was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 O. I. Hryhorchak

We introduce a random matrix framework for studying statistical-mechanical lattice systems through spectral observables. Equilibrium configurations sampled from a Boltzmann measure are mapped to matrix ensembles whose covariance structure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-21 Yaprak Önder , Abbas Ali Saberi , Roderich Moessner

The celebrated Kronig-Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Christopher Moore , Frank Marsiglio

The bootstrap method has proven useful for a wide range of matrix models. Here, we show that the computed momenta can be used to reconstruct the underlying eigenvalue probability distribution, which in turn allows us to compute the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Samuel Kováčik , Katarína Magdolenová

A mechanism to modify the energy band structure is proposed by considering a chain of periodic scatterers forming a linear lattice around which an external cylindrical trapping potential is applied along the chain axis. When this trapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Ji il Kim

Determining the solvability of a given quantum mechanical system is generally challenging. We discuss that the numerical bootstrap method can help us to solve this question in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. We show that the bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Yu Aikawa , Takeshi Morita

We use a coherent Bragg diffraction method to impart an external momentum to ultracold bosonic atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. This method is based on the application of a single light pulse, with conditions where…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Xinxing Liu , Xiaoji Zhou , Wei Zhang , Thibault Vogt , Bo Lu , Xuguang Yue , Xuzong Chen

We present a new computational framework combining coarse-graining techniques with bootstrap methods to study quantum many-body systems. The method efficiently computes rigorous upper and lower bounds on both zero- and finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Minjae Cho , Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Petar Tadić , Yuan Xin , Zechuan Zheng

We present a new algorithm to analytically continue the self-energy of quantum many-body systems from Matsubara frequencies to the real axis. The method allows straightforward, unambiguous computation of electronic spectra for lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Staar , Bart Ydens , Anton Kozhevnikov , Jean-Pierre Locquet , Thomas Schulthess

We describe an analytic procedure whereby scattering amplitudes are bootstrapped directly from an input mass spectrum and a handful of physical constraints: crossing symmetry, boundedness at high energies, and finiteness of exchanged spins.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-08 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

Lattice models are abundant in theoretical and condensed-matter physics. Generally, lattice models contain time-independent hopping and interaction parameters that are derived from the Wannier functions of the noninteracting problem. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Kaspar Sakmann , Alexej I. Streltsov , Ofir E. Alon , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We generalize a recently proposed small-energy expansion for one-dimensional quantum-mechanical models. The original approach was devised to treat symmetric potentials and here we show how to extend it to non-symmetric ones. Present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 Paolo Amore , Francisco M. Fernández

The last several decades have seen significant advances in the theoretical modeling of materials within the fields of solid-state physics and materials science, but many methods commonly applied to this problem struggle to capture strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-07 Anna O. Schouten , Simon Ewing , David A. Mazziotti

In this article we discuss a procedure to solve the one dimensional (1D) Schroedinger Equation for a periodic potential, which may be well suited to teach band structure theory. The procedure is conceptually very simple, so that it may be…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-08-16 Constantino A. Utreras-Díaz

Studies aimed at understanding the global properties of the hyperpolarizabilities have focused on identifying universal properties when the hyperpolarizabilities are at the fundamental limit. These studies have taken two complimentary…

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The energy spectrum of a nonrelativistic particle on a noncommutative sphere in the presence of a magnetic monopole field is calculated. The system is treated in the field theory language, in which the one-particle sector of a charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Karabali , V. P. Nair , A. P. Polychronakos

We study the spin-$1/2$ two-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland spin model by exact diagonalization of clusters with periodic boundary conditions. We develop an improved level spectroscopic technique using energy gaps between states with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-13 Ling Wang , Yalei Zhang , Anders W. Sandvik

We define a finite element method for the coupling of Stokes and nonlinear Poisson--Boltzmann equations. The novelty in the formulation is that the coupling from the electric potential to the drag in the momentum balance is rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Abeer F. AlSohaim , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Segundo Villa-Fuentes