Commensurate-Incommensurate Transition in the Two-Dimensional Sine-Gordon System: the Bethe Ansatz Calculation

Abstract

Recently Haldane has derived the Bethe ansatz equations describing the ground state properties of the massive Thirring model with finite ‘hole’ density (the quantum sine-Gordon model with finite soliton density). His derivation is explicitly confirmed here using a particular cutoff scheme, and his solutions of the equations in various limits are reviewed with complementary results. The commensurate-incommensurate transition in the two-dimensional sine-Gordon model with a uniaxial misfit is examined at finite temperatures using the results obtained in the massive Thirring model.