nLab Ian Affleck

Ian Keith Afflek (1952-2024)

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Selected writings

On the Schwinger effect:

• Ian Affleck, Nicholas Manton, Monopole pair production in a magnetic field, Nuclear Physics B Volume 194, Issue 1, (1982) Pages 38-64 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90511-9

• Ian Affleck, Orlando Alvarez, Nicholas Manton, Pair production at strong coupling in weak external fields, Nuclear Physics B Volume 197, Issue 3 (1982) Pages 509-519 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90455-2)

  (via worldline formalism)

On supersymmetry breaking from super QCD to QCD:

• Ian Affleck, Michael Dine, Nathan Seiberg: Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in supersymmetric QCD. Nuclear Physics B 241 2 (1984) 493-534 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(84)90058-0]

Introducing the AKLT model extension of the Heisenberg spin chain:

• Ian Affleck, Tom Kennedy, Elliott H. Lieb, Hal Tasaki: Rigorous results on valence-bond ground states in antiferromagnets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 799 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.799]

On flag manifold sigma-models:

• Ian Affleck, Dmitri Bykov, Kyle Wamer, Flag manifold sigma models: spin chains and integrable theories, Phys. Rept. 953 (2022) 1-93 [arXiv:2101.11638, doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2021.09.004]

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