Bethe Ansatz and Exclusion Processes

Bethe Ansatz and Exclusion Processes

Feb 1, 2011, 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | 736 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
Exclusion processes have been intensively studied for a variety of reasons. It is a simple model of traffic flow, an interacting particle system with one conservation law that can be used to study shocks, and more recently a model for polymers in random media and interface growth. Because of its similarity to quantum spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain, it is plausible to obtain an exact solution to its...