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arXiv:2008.03220 · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

The open XXZ chain at Δ = −1/2 and the boundary quantum Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations

Christian Hagendorf, Jean Liénardy

Published Jan 1, 2021• 1 citation

Abstract

Abstract The open XXZ spin chain with the anisotropy parameter Δ = − 1 2 and diagonal boundary magnetic fields that depend on a parameter x is studied. For real x > 0, the exact finite-size ground-state eigenvalue of the spin-chain Hamiltonian is explicitly computed. In a suitable normalisation, the ground-state components are characterised as polynomials in x with integer coefficients. Linear sum rules and special components of this eigenvector are explicitly computed in terms of determinant formulas. These results follow from the construction of a contour-integral solution to the boundary quantum Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations associated with the R -matrix and diagonal K -matrices of the six-vertex model. A relation between this solution and a weighted enumeration of totally-symmetric alternating sign matrices is conjectured.

DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/abd028

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