A lecture on the Calogero Sutherland models
Vincent Pasquier
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The Calogero-Sutherland model has recently attracted some attention mainly because, in spite of its simplicity, it yields nontrivial results which contribute to shape our understanding of fractional statistics [1]. Its most remarkable property is that its ground state is given by a Jastrow wave-function which is the one dimensional analogue of the Laughlin wave-function. The excitations are described by quasiparticles which carry a fraction of the quantum numbers of the fundamental particles. The wave functions are simple enough to allow the computation of physical quantities such as the dynamical correlation functions. Recently, it has become clear that the spin version of this model is closely related to the known spin chains such as the XXX chain. The wave functions of the spin models can be obtained as simply as those of the Calogero-Sutherland model by diagonalising simple differential operators known as the Dunkl operators [2]. In these lectures, I restrict to the