Abstract We study the spectrum of the long-range supersymmetric t - J model of Kuramoto and Yokoyama in the presence of an external magnetic field and a charge chemical potential. To this end, we first establish the precise equivalence of a large class of models of this type to a family of spin chains with long-range exchange interactions and a suitable chemical potential term. We exploit this equivalence to compute in closed form the partition function of the long-range t - J model, which we then relate to that of an inhomogeneous vertex model with simple interactions. From the structure of this partition function we are able to deduce an exact formula for the restricted partition function of the long-range t - J model in subspaces with well-defined magnon content in terms of its analogue for the equivalent vertex model. This yields a complete analytical description of the spectrum in the latter subspaces, including the precise degeneracy of each level, by means of the supersymmetric version of Haldane’s motifs and their related skew Young tableaux. As an application, we determine the structure of the motifs associated with the ground state of the spin 1/2 model in the thermodynamic limit in terms of the magnetic field strength and the charge chemical potential. This leads to a complete characterization of the distinct ground state phases, determined by their spin content, in terms of the magnetic field strength and the charge chemical potential.
Abstract We study the spectrum of the long-range supersymmetric t - J model of Kuramoto and Yokoyama in the presence of an external magnetic field and a charge chemical potential. To this end, we first establish the precise equivalence of a large class of models of this type to a family of spin chains with long-range exchange interactions and a suitable chemical potential term. We exploit this equivalence to compute in closed form the partition function of the long-range t - J model, which we then relate to that of an inhomogeneous vertex model with simple interactions. From the structure of this partition function we are able to deduce an exact formula for the restricted partition function of the long-range t - J model in subspaces with well-defined magnon content in terms of its analogue for the equivalent vertex model. This yields a complete analytical description of the spectrum in the latter subspaces, including the precise degeneracy of each level, by means of the supersymmetric version of Haldane’s motifs and their related skew Young tableaux. As an application, we determine the structure of the motifs associated with the ground state of the spin 1/2 model in the thermodynamic limit in terms of the magnetic field strength and the charge chemical potential. This leads to a complete characterization of the distinct ground state phases, determined by their spin content, in terms of the magnetic field strength and the charge chemical potential.
Abstract We study the thermodynamics and critical behavior of s u ( m | n ) supersymmetric spin chains of Haldane–Shastry type with a chemical potential term. We obtain a closed-form expression for the partition function and deduce a description of the spectrum in terms of the supersymmetric version of Haldane’s motifs, which we apply to obtain an analytic expression for the free energy per site in the thermodynamic limit. By studying the low-temperature behavior of the free energy, we characterize the critical behavior of the chains with 1 ⩽ m , n ⩽ 2 , determining the critical regions and the corresponding central charge. We also show that in the s u ( 2 | 1 ) , s u ( 1 | 2 ) and s u ( 2 | 2 ) chains the bosonic or fermionic densities can undergo first-order (discontinuous) phase transitions at T = 0, in contrast with the previously studied s u ( 2 ) case.
Abstract We analyze the thermodynamics and the critical behavior of the supersymmetric t - J model with long-range interactions. Using the transfer matrix formalism, we obtain a closed-form expression for the free energy per site both for a finite number of sites and in the thermodynamic limit. Our approach, which is different from the usual ones based on the asymptotic Bethe ansatz and generalized exclusion statistics, can in fact be applied to a large class of models whose spectrum is described in terms of supersymmetric Young tableaux and their associated Haldane motifs. In the simplest and most interesting case, we identify the five ground state phases of the model and derive the complete low-temperature asymptotic series of the free energy per site, the magnetization and charge densities, and their susceptibilities. We verify the model’s characteristic spin-charge separation at low temperatures, and show that it holds to all orders in the asymptotic expansion. Using the low-temperature asymptotic expansions of the free energy, we also analyze the critical behavior of the model in each of its ground state phases. While the standard phase is described by two independent conformal field theories (CFTs) with central charge c = 1 in correspondence with the spin and charge sectors, we find that the low-energy behavior of the and phases is that of a single c = 1 CFT. We show that the model exhibits an even richer behavior on the boundary between zero-temperature phases, where it can be non-critical but gapless, critical in the spin sector but not in the charge one, or critical with central charge c = 3/2.
Abstract We introduce a novel family of translationally invariant su ( m | n ) supersymmetric spin chains with long-range interaction not directly associated with a root system. We study the symmetries of this model, establishing in particular the existence of a boson–fermion duality characteristic of this type of system. Taking advantage of the relation of the new chains with an associated many-body supersymmetric spin dynamical model, we are able to compute their partition function in closed form for all values of m and n and for an arbitrary number of spins. When both m and n are even, we show that the partition function factorizes as the product of the partition functions of two supersymmetric Haldane–Shastry spin chains, which in turn leads to a simple expression for the thermodynamic free energy per spin in terms of the Perron eigenvalue of a suitable transfer matrix. We use this expression to study the thermodynamics of a large class of these chains, showing in particular that the specific heat presents a single Schottky peak at approximately the same temperature as a suitable k-level model. We also analyze the critical behavior of the new chains, and in particular, the ground-state degeneracy and the existence of low-energy excitations with a linear energy–momentum dispersion relation. In this way, we show that the only possible critical chains are those with m = 0 , 1 , 2 . In addition, using the explicit formula for the partition function we are able to establish the criticality of the su ( 0 | n ) and su ( 2 | n ) chains with even n, and to evaluate the central charge of their associated conformal field theory.
Abstract We study the thermodynamics and criticality of the su( m | n ) Haldane–Shastry chain of BC N type with a general chemical potential term. We first derive a complete description of the spectrum of this model in terms of BC N -type motifs, from which we deduce a representation for the partition function as the trace of a product of site-dependent transfer matrices. In the thermodynamic limit, this formula yields a simple expression for the free energy per spin in terms of the Perron–Frobenius eigenvalue of the continuum limit of the transfer matrix. Evaluating this eigenvalue we obtain closed-form expressions for the thermodynamic functions of the chains with m , n ⩽ 2. Using the motif-based description of the spectrum derived here, we study in detail the ground state of these models and their low energy excitations. In this way we identify the critical intervals in chemical potential space and compute their corresponding Fermi velocities. By contrast with previously studied models of this type, we find in some cases two types of low energy excitations with linear energy-quasimomentum relation. Finally, we determine the central charge of all the critical phases by analyzing the low-temperature behavior of the expression for the free energy per spin.
We introduce a general class of su(1|1) supersymmetric spin chains with long-range interactions which includes as particular cases the su(1|1) Inozemtsev (elliptic) and Haldane-Shastry chains, as well as the XX model. We show that this class of models can be fermionized with the help of the algebraic properties of the su(1|1) permutation operator and take advantage of this fact to analyze their quantum criticality when a chemical potential term is present in the Hamiltonian. We first study the low-energy excitations and the low-temperature behavior of the free energy, which coincides with that of a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) with central charge c=1 when the chemical potential lies in the critical interval (0,E(π)), E(p) being the dispersion relation. We also analyze the von Neumann and Rényi ground state entanglement entropies, showing that they exhibit the logarithmic scaling with the size of the block of spins characteristic of a one-boson (1+1)-dimensional CFT. Our results thus show that the models under study are quantum critical when the chemical potential belongs to the critical interval, with central charge c=1. From the analysis of the fermion density at zero temperature, we also conclude that there is a quantum phase transition at both ends of the critical interval. This is further confirmed by the behavior of the fermion density at finite temperature, which is studied analytically (at low temperature), as well as numerically for the su(1|1) elliptic chain.
Abstract We introduce a new class of open, translationally invariant spin chains with long-range interactions depending on both spin permutation and (polarized) spin reversal operators, which includes the Haldane-Shastry chain as a particular degenerate case. The new class is characterized by the fact that the Hamiltonian is invariant under “twisted” translations, combining an ordinary translation with a spin flip at one end of the chain. It includes a remarkable model with elliptic spin-spin interactions, smoothly interpolating between the XXX Heisenberg model with anti-periodic boundary conditions and a new open chain with sites uniformly spaced on a half-circle and interactions inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the spins. We are able to compute in closed form the partition function of the latter chain, thereby obtaining a complete description of its spectrum in terms of a pair of independent su(1|1) and su(m/2) motifs when the number m of internal degrees of freedom is even. This implies that the even m model is invariant under the direct sum of the Yangians Y (gl(1|1)) and Y (gl(0|m/2)). We also analyze several statistical properties of the new chain’s spectrum. In particular, we show that it is highly degenerate, which strongly suggests the existence of an underlying (twisted) Yangian symmetry also for odd m.