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We discuss elliptic quantum Calogero-Moser-Sutherland models, including their relativistic generalizations due to Ruijsenaars and van Diejen, and the relations of these models to classes of special functions developed and explored in recent and on-going research efforts. We give an introduction to these models and corresponding special functions aimed at non-experts. We also describe a few open problems in the field., Comment: 31 pages. Invited contribution to the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics

We study the algebraic structure of electron density operators in gapless Weyl fermion systems in $d=3,5,7,\cdots$ spatial dimensions and in topological insulators (without any protecting symmetry) in $d=4,6,8,\cdots$ spatial dimensions. These systems are closely related by the celebrated bulk-boundary correspondence. Specifically, we study the higher bracket -- a generalization of commutator for more than two operators -- of electron density operators in these systems. For topological insulators, we show that the higher-bracket algebraic structure of density operators structurally parallels with the Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman algebra (the $W_{1+\infty}$ algebra), the algebra of electron density operators projected onto the lowest Landau level in the quantum Hall effect. By the bulk-boundary correspondence, the bulk higher-bracket structure mirrors its counterparts at the boundary. Specifically, we show that the density operators of Weyl fermion systems, once normal-ordered with respect to the ground state, their higher bracket acquires a c-number part. This part is an analog of the Schwinger term in the commutator of the fermion current operators. We further identify this part with a cyclic cocycle, which is a topological invariant and an element of Connes' noncommutative geometry., Comment: 28 pages

An effective quantum field theory of the 2D Hubbard model on a square lattice near half-filling is presented and studied. This effective model describes so-called nodal and antinodal fermions, and it is derived from the lattice model using a certain partial continuum limit. It is shown that the nodal fermions can be bosonized, which leads to spin-charge separation and a 2D analogue of a Wess-Zumino-Witten model. A bosonization formula for the nodal fermion field operator is obtained, and an exactly solvable model of interacting 2D fermions is identified. Different ways of treating the antinodal fermions are also proposed., Comment: This paper was written in 2011 and revised in 2012. 41 pages, 1 figure

We study analytic solutions to the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) gap equation for isotropic superconductors with finite-range interaction potentials over the full range of temperatures from absolute zero to the superconducting critical temperature, $0\leq T\leq T_c$. Using these solutions, $\Delta(\epsilon,T)$, we provide a proof of the universality of the temperature dependence of the BCS gap ratio at the Fermi level, $\Delta(\epsilon=0,T)/T_c$. Moreover, by examining the behavior of this ratio as a function of energy, $\epsilon$, we find that non-universal features emerge away from the Fermi level, and these features take the form of a temperature independent multiplicative factor, $F(\epsilon)$, which is equal to $\Delta(\epsilon,T)/\Delta(\epsilon=0,T)$ up to exponentially small corrections, i.e., the error terms vanish like $\rm{e}^{-1/\lambda}$ in the weak-coupling limit $\lambda\rightarrow 0$. We discuss the model-dependent features of both $F(\epsilon)$ and $T_c$, and we illustrate their behavior focusing on several concrete examples of physically-relevant finite-range potentials. Comparing these cases for fixed coupling constants, we highlight the importance of the functional form of the interaction potential in determining the size of the critical temperature and provide guidelines for choosing potentials which lead to higher values of $T_c$. We also propose experimental signatures which could be used to probe the energy-dependence of the gap and potentially shed light on the underlying mechanisms giving rise to superconductivity., Comment: 15 pages + appendices, 7 figures

We present an exact closed-form expression for the propagator of the Calogero model, i.e., for the integral kernel of the time evolution operator of the quantum many-body system on the real line with an external harmonic potential and inverse-square two-body interactions. This expression is obtained by combining two results: first, a simple formula relating this propagator to the eigenfunctions of the Calogero model without harmonic potential and second, a formula for these eigenfunctions as finite sums of products of polynomial two-body functions., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures

We construct a non-chiral conformal field theory (CFT) on the torus that accommodates a second quantization of the elliptic Calogero-Sutherland (eCS) model. We show that the CFT operator that provides this second quantization defines, at the same time, a quantum version of a soliton equation called the non-chiral intermediate long-wave (ncILW) equation. We also show that this CFT operator is a second quantization of a generalized eCS model which can describe arbitrary numbers of four different kinds of particles; we propose that these particles can be identified with solitons of the quantum ncILW equation., Comment: 56 pages

We construct elliptic multi-soliton solutions of the spin non-chiral intermediate long-wave (sncILW) equation with periodic boundary conditions. These solutions are obtained by a spin-pole ansatz including a dynamical background term; we show that this ansatz solves the periodic sncILW equation provided the spins and poles satisfy the elliptic $A$-type spin Calogero-Moser (sCM) system with certain constraints on the initial conditions. The key to this result is a B\"{a}cklund transformation for the elliptic sCM system which includes a non-trivial dynamical background term. We also present solutions of the sncILW equation on the real line and of the spin Benjamin-Ono equation which generalize previously obtained solutions by allowing for a non-trivial background term., Comment: 33 pages

We present a necessary condition for odd-frequency (odd-f) superconductivity (SC) to occur in a large class of materials described by Eliashberg theory. We use this condition to prove a no-go theorem ruling out the occurrence of odd-f SC in standard one-band superconductors with pairing interactions mediated by phonon exchange. We also present a corresponding no-go theorem for superconductors with interactions mediated by spin-fluctuations. Our results explain why odd-f SC is rare in conventional materials, and they open up the possibility for a search for materials with interactions designed so as to allow for odd-f SC., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures

We present new soliton equations related to the $A$-type spin Calogero-Moser (CM) systems introduced by Gibbons and Hermsen. These equations are spin generalizations of the Benjamin-Ono (BO) equation and the recently introduced non-chiral intermediate long-wave (ncILW) equation. We obtain multi-soliton solutions of these spin generalizations of the BO equation and the ncILW equation via a spin-pole ansatz where the spin-pole dynamics is governed by the spin CM system in the rational and hyperbolic cases, respectively. We also propose physics applications of the new equations, and we introduce a spin generalization of the standard intermediate long-wave equation which interpolates between the matrix Korteweg-de Vries equation, the Heisenberg ferromagnet equation, and the spin BO equation., Comment: 34 pages

We present and solve a soliton equation which we call the non-chiral intermediate Heisenberg ferromagnet (ncIHF) equation. This equation, which depends on a parameter $\delta >0$, describes the time evolution of two coupled spin densities propagating on the real line, and in the limit $\delta \to \infty$ it reduces to two decoupled half-wave maps (HWM) equations of opposite chirality. We show that the ncIHF equation is related to the A-type hyperbolic spin Calogero-Moser (CM) system in two distinct ways: (i) it is obtained as a particular continuum limit of a Inozemtsev-type spin chain related to this CM system, (ii) it has multi-soliton solutions obtained by a spin-pole ansatz and with parameters satisfying the equations of motion of a complexified version of this CM system. The integrability of the ncIHF equation is shown by constructing a Lax pair. We also propose a periodic variant of the ncIHF equation related to the A-type elliptic spin CM system., Comment: 50 pages, 6 figures

We present four infinite families of mutually commuting difference operators which include the deformed elliptic Ruijsenaars operators. The trigonometric limit of this kind of operators was previously introduced by Feigin and Silantyev. They provide a quantum mechanical description of two kinds of relativistic quantum mechanical particles which can be identified with particles and anti-particles in an underlying quantum field theory. We give direct proofs of the commutativity of our operators and of some other fundamental properties such as kernel function identities. In particular, we give a rigorous proof of the quantum integrability of the deformed Ruijsenaars model., Comment: 29 pages

Kajihara obtained in 2004 a remarkable transformation formula connecting multiple basic hypergeometric series associated with $A$-type root systems of different ranks. By multiple principle specialisations of his formula, we deduce kernel identities for deformed Macdonald-Ruijsenaars (MR) and Noumi-Sano (NS) operators. The deformed MR operators were introduced by Sergeev and Veselov in the first order case and by Feigin and Silantyev in the higher order cases. As applications of our kernel identities, we prove that all of these operators pairwise commute and are simultaneously diagonalised by the super-Macdonald polynomials. We also provide an explicit description of the algebra generated by the deformed MR and/or NS operators by a Harish-Chandra type isomorphism and show that the deformed MR (NS) operators can be viewed as restrictions of inverse limits of ordinary MR (NS) operators., Comment: 29 pages

The super-Macdonald polynomials, introduced by Sergeev and Veselov, generalise the Macdonald polynomials to (arbitrary numbers of) two kinds of variables, and they are eigenfunctions of the deformed Macdonald-Ruijsenaars operators introduced by the same authors. We introduce a Hermitian form on the algebra spanned by the super-Macdonald polynomials, prove their orthogonality, compute their (quadratic) norms explicitly, and establish a corresponding Hilbert space interpretation of the super-Macdonald polynomials and deformed Macdonald-Ruijsenaars operators. This allows for a quantum mechanical interpretation of the models defined by the deformed Macdonald-Ruijsenaars operators. Motivated by recent results in the nonrelativistic ($q\to 1$) case, we propose that these models describe the particles and anti-particles of an underlying relativistic quantum field theory, thus providing a natural generalisation of the trigonometric Ruijsenaars model., Comment: 30 pages

We study integrability properties of the non-chiral intermediate long wave (ncILW) equation with periodic boundary conditions. The ncILW equation was recently introduced by the authors as a parity-invariant relative of the intermediate long wave equation. For this new equation we: (a) derive a Lax pair, (b) derive a Hirota bilinear form, (c) use the Hirota method to construct the periodic multi-soliton solutions, (d) derive a B\"{a}cklund transformation, (e) use the B\"{a}cklund transformation to obtain an infinite number of conservation laws., Comment: 27 pages. This is a standalone paper based on Section 6 of arXiv:2005.10781v1

We present a perturbative construction of two kinds of eigenfunctions of the commuting family of difference operators defining the elliptic Ruijsenaars system. The first kind corresponds to elliptic deformations of the Macdonald polynomials, and the second kind generalizes asymptotically free eigenfunctions previously constructed in the trigonometric case. We obtain these eigenfunctions as infinite series which, as we show, converge in suitable domains of the variables and parameters. Our results imply that, for the domain where the elliptic Ruijsenaars operators define a relativistic quantum mechanical system, the elliptic deformations of the Macdonald polynomials provide a family of orthogonal functions with respect to the pertinent scalar product., Comment: 48 pages

We consider the half-wave maps (HWM) equation which provides a continuum description of the classical Haldane-Shastry spin chain on the real line. We present exact multi-soliton solutions of this equation. Our solutions describe solitary spin excitations that can move with different velocities and interact in a non-trivial way. We make an ansatz for the solution allowing for an arbitrary number of solitons, each described by a pole in the complex plane and a complex spin variable, and we show that the HWM equation is satisfied if these poles and spins evolve according to the dynamics of an exactly solvable spin Calogero-Moser (CM) system with certain constraints on initial conditions. We also find first order equations providing a B\"acklund transformation of this spin CM system, generalize our results to the periodic HWM equation, and provide plots that visualize our soliton solutions., Comment: 32 pages, 5 figures

For any variable number, a non-stationary Ruijsenaars function was recently introduced as a natural generalization of an explicitly known asymptotically free solution of the trigonometric Ruijsenaars model, and it was conjectured that this non-stationary Ruijsenaars function provides an explicit solution of the elliptic Ruijsenaars model. We present alternative series representations of the non-stationary Ruijsenaars functions, and we prove that these series converge. We also introduce novel difference operators called ${\mathcal T}$ which, as we prove in the trigonometric limit and conjecture in the general case, act diagonally on the non-stationary Ruijsenaars functions.

We study integrability properties of the non-chiral intermediate long wave equation recently introduced by the authors as a parity-invariant variant of the intermediate long wave equation. For this new equation we: (a) derive a Lax pair, (b) derive a Hirota bilinear form, (c) derive a B\"{a}cklund transformation, (d) use, separately, the B\"{a}cklund transformation and the Lax representation to obtain an infinite number of conservation laws., Comment: 29 pages

We present a non-chiral version of the Intermediate Long Wave (ILW) equation that can model nonlinear waves propagating on two opposite edges of a quantum Hall system, taking into account inter-edge interactions. We obtain exact soliton solutions governed by the hyperbolic Calogero-Moser-Sutherland (CMS) model, and we give a Lax pair, a Hirota form, and conservation laws for this new equation. We also present a periodic non-chiral ILW equation, together with its soliton solutions governed by the elliptic CMS model., Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures

We use generalized kernel functions to construct explicit solutions by integrals of the non-stationary Schr\"odinger equation for the Hamiltonian of the elliptic Calogero-Sutherland model (also known as elliptic Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equation). Our solutions provide integral represenations of elliptic generalizations of the Jack polyomials., Comment: 26 pages

Based on recent progress in mathematical physics, we present a reliable method to analytically solve the linearized BCS gap equation for a large class of finite-range interaction potentials leading to s-wave superconductivity. With this analysis, we demonstrate that the monotonic growth of the superconducting critical temperature $T_c$ with the carrier density, $n$, predicted by standard BCS theory, is an artifact of the simplifying assumption that the interaction is quasi-local. In contrast, we show that any well-defined non-local potential leads to a "superconducting dome", i.e. a non-monotonic $T_c(n)$ exhibiting a maximum value at finite doping and going to zero for large $n$. This proves that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the presence of a superconducting dome is not necessarily an indication of competing orders, nor of exotic superconductivity. Our results provide a prototype example and guide towards improving ab-initio predictions of $T_c$ for real materials., Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, + supplemental material

We propose and study a conformal field theory (CFT) model with random position-dependent velocity that, as we argue, naturally emerges as an effective description of heat transport in one-dimensional quantum many-body systems with certain static random impurities. We present exact analytical results that elucidate how purely ballistic heat waves in standard CFT can acquire normal and anomalous diffusive contributions due to our impurities. Our results include impurity-averaged Green's functions describing the time evolution of the energy density and the heat current, and an explicit formula for the thermal conductivity that, in addition to a universal Drude peak, has a nontrivial real regular contribution that depends on details of the impurities., Comment: 5 pages + SM, RevTeX, 2 figures; reorganized version with minor updates; final published version

We prove orthogonality and compute explicitly the (quadratic) norms for super-Jack polynomials $SP_\lambda((z_1,\ldots,z_n),(w_1,\ldots,w_m);\theta)$ with respect to a natural positive semi-definite, but degenerate, Hermitian product $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle_{n,m}^\prime$. In case $m=0$ (or $n=0$), our product reduces to Macdonald's well-known inner product $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle_n^\prime$, and we recover his corresponding orthogonality results for the Jack polynomials $P_\lambda((z_1,\ldots,z_n);\theta)$. From our main results, we readily infer that the kernel of $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle_{n,m}^\prime$ is spanned by the super-Jack polynomials indexed by a partition $\lambda$ not containing the $m\times n$ rectangle $(m^n)$. As an application, we provide a Hilbert space interpretation of the deformed trigonometric Calogero-Moser-Sutherland operators of type $A(n-1,m-1)$., Comment: 19 pages, 1 figure

Recently, remarkably simple exact results were presented about the dynamics of heat transport in the local Luttinger model for nonequilibrium initial states defined by position-dependent temperature profiles. We present mathematical details on how these results were obtained. We also give an alternative derivation using only algebraic relations involving the energy-momentum tensor which hold true in any unitary conformal field theory (CFT). This establishes a simple universal correspondence between initial temperature profiles and the resulting heat-wave propagation in CFT. We extend these results to larger classes of nonequilibrium states. It is proposed that such universal CFT relations provide benchmarks to identify nonuniversal properties of nonequilibrium dynamics in other models., Comment: 29 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures; minor updates and corrections to original submission, final published version

We show that, within a linear approximation of BCS theory, a weak homogeneous magnetic field lowers the critical temperature by an explicit constant times the field strength, up to higher order terms. This provides a rigorous derivation and generalization of results obtained in the physics literature from WHH theory of the upper critical magnetic field. A new ingredient in our proof is a rigorous phase approximation to control the effects of the magnetic field., Comment: 46 pages

We study the time evolution of a one-dimensional interacting fermion system described by the Luttinger model starting from a nonequilibrium state defined by a smooth temperature profile $T(x)$. As a specific example we consider the case when $T(x)$ is equal to $T_L$ ($T_R$) far to the left (right). Using a series expansion in $\epsilon = 2(T_{R} - T_{L})/(T_{L}+T_{R})$, we compute the energy density, the heat current density, and the fermion two-point correlation function for all times $t \geq 0$. For local (delta-function) interactions, the first two are computed to all orders, giving simple exact expressions involving the Schwarzian derivative of the integral of $T(x)$. For nonlocal interactions, breaking scale invariance, we compute the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) to all orders and the evolution to first order in $\epsilon$. The heat current in the NESS is universal even when conformal invariance is broken by the interactions, and its dependence on $T_{L,R}$ agrees with numerical results for the $XXZ$ spin chain. Moreover, our analytical formulas predict peaks at short times in the transition region between different temperatures and show dispersion effects that, even if nonuniversal, are qualitatively similar to ones observed in numerical simulations for related models, such as spin chains and interacting lattice fermions., Comment: 9 pages, REVTeX, 4 figures; extended version of original submission with minor corrections; final published version with minor updates

We consider the non-stationary Heun equation, also known as quantum Painlev\'e VI, which has appeared in different works on quantum integrable models and conformal field theory. We use a generalized kernel function identity to transform the problem to solve this equation into a differential-difference equation which, as we show, can be solved by efficient recursive algorithms. We thus obtain series representations of solutions which provide elliptic generalizations of the Jacobi polynomials. These series reproduce, in a limiting case, a perturbative solution of the Heun equation due to Takemura, but our method is different in that we expand in non-conventional basis functions that allow us to obtain explicit formulas to all orders; in particular, for special parameter values, our series reduce to a single term.

The deformed Calogero-Sutherland (CS) model is a quantum integrable system with arbitrary numbers of two types of particles and reducing to the standard CS model in special cases. We show that a known collective field description of the CS model, which is based on conformal field theory (CFT), is actually a collective field description of the deformed CS model. This provides a natural application of the deformed CS model in Wen's effective field theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), with the two kinds of particles corresponding to electrons and quasi-hole excitations. In particular, we use known mathematical results about super Jack polynomials to obtain simple explicit formulas for the orthonormal CFT basis proposed by van Elburg and Schoutens in the context of the FQHE.

We obtain exact analytical results for the evolution of a 1+1-dimensional Luttinger model prepared in a domain wall initial state, i.e., a state with different densities on its left and right sides. Such an initial state is modeled as the ground state of a translation invariant Luttinger Hamiltonian $H_{\lambda}$ with short range non-local interaction and different chemical potentials to the left and right of the origin. The system evolves for time $t>0$ via a Hamiltonian $H_{\lambda'}$ which differs from $H_{\lambda}$ by the strength of the interaction. Asymptotically in time, as $t \to \infty$, after taking the thermodynamic limit, the system approaches a translation invariant steady state. This final steady state carries a current $I$ and has an effective chemical potential difference $\mu_+ - \mu_-$ between right- ($+$) and left- ($-$) moving fermions obtained from the two-point correlation function. Both $I$ and $\mu_+ - \mu_-$ depend on $\lambda$ and $\lambda'$. Only for the case $\lambda = \lambda' = 0$ does $\mu_+ - \mu_-$ equal the difference in the initial left and right chemical potentials. Nevertheless, the Landauer conductance for the final state, $G=I/(\mu_+ - \mu_-)$, has a universal value equal to the conductance quantum $e^2/h$ for the spinless case., Comment: 30 pages, REVTeX, 4 figures; minor updates and corrections to original submission, final published version

We discuss an extension of the (massless) Thirring model describing interacting fermions in one dimension which are coupled to phonons and where all interactions are local. This fermion-phonon model can be solved exactly by bosonization. We present a construction and solution of this model which is mathematically rigorous by treating it as a limit of a Luttinger-phonon model. A self-contained account of the mathematical results underlying bosonization is included, together with complete proofs., Comment: 59 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure; minor updates to original submission, final published version; minor fix to agree with published version

We consider the Schr\"odinger operator on the real line with an even quartic potential. Our main result is a product formula of the type $\psi_k(x)\psi_k(y) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \psi_k(z)\mathcal{K}(x,y,z)dz$ for its eigenfunctions $\psi_k$. The kernel function $\mathcal{K}$ is given explicitly in terms of the Airy function $\mathrm{Ai}(x)$, and is positive for appropriate parameter values. As an application, we obtain a particular asymptotic expansion of the eigenfunctions $\psi_k$., Comment: 18 pages. In v2 we added five references, reorganised some of the material and made some minor revisions and corrections; and in v3 we added references to work by T. T. Truong, who obtained a product formula for quartic oscillator eigenfunctions already in 1974

We introduce variational methods for finding approximate eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of quantum Hamiltonians by constructing a set of orthogonal wave functions which approximately solve the eigenvalue equation.

We discuss interacting fermion models in two dimensions, and, in particular, such that can be solved exactly by bosonization. One solvable model of this kind was proposed by Mattis as an effective description of fermions on a square lattice. We review recent work on a specific relation between a variant of Mattis' model and such a lattice fermion system, as well as the exact solution of this model. The background for this work includes well-established results for one-dimensional systems and the high-Tc problem. We also mention exactly solvable extensions of Mattis' model., Comment: 21 pages, 2 figures, invited review

The Inozemtsev Hamiltonian is an elliptic generalization of the differential operator defining the BC_N trigonometric quantum Calogero-Sutherland model, and its eigenvalue equation is a natural many-variable generalization of the Heun differential equation. We present kernel functions for Inozemtsev Hamiltonians and Chalykh-Feigin-Veselov-Sergeev-type deformations thereof. Our main result is a solution of a heat-type equation for a generalized Inozemtsev Hamiltonian which is the source for all these kernel functions. Applications are given, including a derivation of simple exact eigenfunctions and eigenvalues for the Inozemtsev Hamiltonian., Comment: 24 pages, 1 figure

We present a 2+1 dimensional quantum gauge theory with correlated fermions that is exactly solvable by bosonization. This model describes a system of Luttinger liquids propagating on two sets of equidistant lines forming a grid embedded in two dimensional continuum space; this system has two dimensional character due to density-density interactions and due to a coupling to dynamical photons propagating in the continuous embedding space. We argue that this model gives an effective description of partially gapped fermions on a square lattice that have density-density interactions and are coupled to photons. Our results include the following: after non-trivial renormalizations of the coupling parameters, the model remains well-defined in the quantum field theory limit as the grid of lines becomes a continuum; the photons in this model are massive due to gauge-invariant normal-ordering, similarly as in the Schwinger model; the exact excitation spectrum of the model has two gapped and one gapless mode., Comment: v1: 8 pages, 1 figure v2: 21 pages, 1 figure; appendices with technical details added; changes in introduction and conclusions; references added

We consider models of bosons on curved 3+1 dimensional space-time embedded in a higher dimensional flat ambient space. We propose to derive (rather than postulate) equations of motions by assuming that a standard Klein-Gordon field on ambient space is restricted to space-time by a strong confining potential. This leads to a modified Klein-Gordon equation on space-time which includes, in addition to the standard terms, a term with a so-called induced potential which depends on intrinsic- and extrinsic curvature of the embedded space-time but not on the details of the confining potential. We compute this induced potential for natural, simple embeddings of Schwarzschild- and Robertson-Walker space-times. We also discuss possible observable implications of our results and, in particular, propose and study an extension of a standard model of cosmological inflation taking into account extrinsic curvature effects. We show that the modified model allows for a solution where the scaling function vanishes like a power law with exponent 0.6830.. at some initial time., Comment: 24 pages; v2: typos corrected

We study an exactly solvable quantum field theory (QFT) model describing interacting fermions in 2+1 dimensions. This model is motivated by physical arguments suggesting that it provides an effective description of spinless fermions on a square lattice with local hopping and density-density interactions if, close to half filling, the system develops a partial energy gap. The necessary regularization of the QFT model is based on this proposed relation to lattice fermions. We use bosonization methods to diagonalize the Hamiltonian and to compute all correlation functions. We also discuss how, after appropriate multiplicative renormalizations, all short- and long distance cutoffs can be removed. In particular, we prove that the renormalized two-point functions have algebraic decay with non-trivial exponents depending on the interaction strengths, which is a hallmark of Luttinger-liquid behavior., Comment: 59 pages, 3 figures, v2: further references added; additional subsections elaborating mathematical details; additional appendix with details on the relation to lattice fermions

This article surveys the application of the representation theory of loop groups to simple models in quantum field theory and to certain integrable systems. The common thread in the discussion is the construction of quantum fields using vertex operators. These examples include the construction and solution of the Luttinger model and other 1+1 dimensional interacting quantum field theories, the construction of anyon field operators on the circle, the `2nd quantization' of the Calogero-Sutherland model using anyons and the geometric construction of quantum fields on Riemann surfaces. We describe some new results on the elliptic Calogero-Sutherland model. (This paper was written in 2001, and we want to make a version of it more accessible because it is a reference for us for subsequent work.), Comment: 39 pages, published in: Geometric Analysis and Applications to Quantum Field Theory (Progress in Mathematics Vol 205), P. Bouwknegt and S. Wu (Eds.), Birkhauser, Boston (2002), 45-94

Kernel functions related to quantum many-body systems of Calogero-Sutherland type are discussed, in particular for the elliptic case. The main result is an elliptic generalization of an identity due to Sen that is a source for many such kernel functions. Applications are given, including simple exact eigenfunctions and corresponding eigenvalues of Chalykh-Feigin-Veselov-Sergeev-type deformations of the elliptic Calogero-Sutherland model for special parameter values., Comment: v1: 12 pages. v2: 13 pages; typos corrected; one reference added

We compute mean field phase diagrams of two closely related interacting fermion models in two spatial dimensions (2D). The first is the so-called 2D t-t'-V model describing spinless fermions on a square lattice with local hopping and density-density interactions. The second is the so-called 2D Luttinger model that provides an effective description of the 2D t-t'-V model and in which parts of the fermion degrees of freedom are treated exactly by bosonization. In mean field theory, both models have a charge-density-wave (CDW) instability making them gapped at half-filling. The 2D t-t'-V model has a significant parameter regime away from half-filling where neither the CDW nor the normal state are thermodynamically stable. We show that the 2D Luttinger model allows to obtain more detailed information about this mixed region. In particular, we find in the 2D Luttinger model a partially gapped phase that, as we argue, can be described by an exactly solvable model., Comment: v1: 36 pages, 10 figures, v2: minor corrections; equation references to arXiv:0903.0055 updated.

A detailed derivation of a two dimensional (2D) low energy effective model for spinless fermions on a square lattice with local interactions is given. This derivation utilizes a particular continuum limit that is justified by physical arguments. It is shown that the effective model thus obtained can be treated by exact bosonization methods. It is also discussed how this effective model can be used to obtain physical information about the corresponding lattice fermion system., Comment: 36 pages, 3 figures; v2: 36 pages, 2 figures, minor corrections; v3: 38 pages, 2 figures, clarifications and minor corrections, adapted to follow-up paper arXiv:0907.1277

I present the exact energy eigenstates and eigenvalues of a quantum many-body system of bosons on non-commutative space and in a harmonic oszillator confining potential at the selfdual point. I also argue that this exactly solvable system is a prototype model which provides a generalization of mean field theory taking into account non-trivial correlations which are peculiar to boson systems in two space dimensions and relevant in condensed matter physics. The prologue and epilogue contain a few remarks to relate my main story to recent developments in non-commutative quantum field theory and an addendum to our previous work together with Szabo and Zarembo on this latter subject., Comment: Contribution to the "International Conference on Noncommutative Geometry and Physics", April 2007, Orsay (France)