02199nam a22003258a 4500 CR9781107053885 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130402s2014||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781107053885 (ebook) 9781107045859 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda QC174.26.W3 G3813 2014 530.12/4 23 Gaudin, Michel, author. The Bethe Wavefunction / [electronic resource] Michel Gaudin, Translated by Jean-Sébastien Caux. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Michel Gaudin's book La fonction d'onde de Bethe is a uniquely influential masterpiece on exactly solvable models of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Available in English for the first time, this translation brings his classic work to a new generation of graduate students and researchers in physics. It presents a mixture of mathematics interspersed with powerful physical intuition, retaining the author's unmistakably honest tone. The book begins with the Heisenberg spin chain, starting from the coordinate Bethe Ansatz and culminating in a discussion of its thermodynamic properties. Delta-interacting bosons (the Lieb-Liniger model) are then explored, and extended to exactly solvable models associated to a reflection group. After discussing the continuum limit of spin chains, the book covers six- and eight-vertex models in extensive detail, from their lattice definition to their thermodynamics. Later chapters examine advanced topics such as multi-component delta-interacting systems, Gaudin magnets and the Toda chain. Wave functions Caux, Jean-Sébastien, translator. Print version: 9781107045859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107053885 Cambridge Books Online 236803 236803