Composition of many spins, random walks and statistics

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.09.023zbMATH Open1349.81214arXiv1609.04702OpenAlexW2522440135MaRDI QIDQ347592FDOQ347592

Authors: Alexios P. Polychronakos, Konstantinos Sfetsos 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The multiplicities of the decomposition of the product of an arbitrary number $n$ of spin $s$ states into irreducible $SU(2)$ representations are computed. Two complementary methods are presented, one based on random walks in representation space and another based on the partition function of the system in the presence of a magnetic field. The large-$n$ scaling limit of these multiplicities is derived, including nonperturbative corrections, and related to semiclassical features of the system. A physical application of these results to ferromagnetism is explicitly worked out. Generalizations involving several types of spins, as well as spin distributions, are also presented. The corresponding problem for (anti-)symmetric composition of spins is also considered and shown to obey remarkable duality and bosonization relations and exhibit qualitatively different large-$n$ scaling properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04702

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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Cited In (7)

• On the composition of an arbitrary collection of \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\) spins: an enumerative combinatoric approach
• Stellar representation of multipartite antisymmetric states
• Spin multiplicities
• Ferromagnetic phase transitions in \(SU(N)\)
• Combinatorial analysis of magnetic configurations
• Composing arbitrarily many \(SU(N)\) fundamentals
• Phase transitions in the decomposition of \(SU(N)\) representations

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