The spectrum of the Sutherland model for fermions with spin has a degeneracy. The orthogonal set of the basis of the Fock space of degenerate states is usually related to a Lie algebra such as su 2 and su 3 . In our case, however, the degeneracy extends to states with different values of total spin, and the ordinary Lie algebra is insufficient. The relevant algebra is called Yangian [43, 44], and is the algebra controlling those operators satisfying the Yang–Baxter relation [118, 178]. In this chapter we describe how the Yangian naturally emerges in the many-particle states described by Jack polynomials, and constructs an orthogonal basis of degenerate states. We concentrate here on the simplest case of the gl 2 Yangian, corresponding to spin 1/2 particles. More general cases will be discussed in Chapter 9. We introduce a variant of the R-matrix in Section 8.1, and its standard form in Section 8.2. We then introduce a monodromy matrix and discuss its algebraic properties, such as the Yang–Baxter relation and the intertwining property. In Section 8.4, we consider the action of the monodromy matrix on the set of states constituting the degenerate eigenstates. We will see that an element of the monodromy matrix plays the role of a creation or annihilation operator of orthogonal eigenfunctions. This means that all eigenfunctions can be generated algebraically from the highest-weight state, for example, by successive action of an element of the monodromy matrix. Thus, the degeneracy beyond the Lie algebra is accounted for by the symmetry of the monodromy matrix, which is nothing but the Yangian. A demonstration of this construction will be given in Section 8.5 for the two-particle and three-particle systems.
The spectrum of the Sutherland model for fermions with spin has a degeneracy. The orthogonal set of the basis of the Fock space of degenerate states is usually related to a Lie algebra such as su 2 and su 3 . In our case, however, the degeneracy extends to states with different values of total spin, and the ordinary Lie algebra is insufficient. The relevant algebra is called Yangian [43, 44], and is the algebra controlling those operators satisfying the Yang–Baxter relation [118, 178]. In this chapter we describe how the Yangian naturally emerges in the many-particle states described by Jack polynomials, and constructs an orthogonal basis of degenerate states. We concentrate here on the simplest case of the gl 2 Yangian, corresponding to spin 1/2 particles. More general cases will be discussed in Chapter 9. We introduce a variant of the R-matrix in Section 8.1, and its standard form in Section 8.2. We then introduce a monodromy matrix and discuss its algebraic properties, such as the Yang–Baxter relation and the intertwining property. In Section 8.4, we consider the action of the monodromy matrix on the set of states constituting the degenerate eigenstates. We will see that an element of the monodromy matrix plays the role of a creation or annihilation operator of orthogonal eigenfunctions. This means that all eigenfunctions can be generated algebraically from the highest-weight state, for example, by successive action of an element of the monodromy matrix. Thus, the degeneracy beyond the Lie algebra is accounted for by the symmetry of the monodromy matrix, which is nothing but the Yangian. A demonstration of this construction will be given in Section 8.5 for the two-particle and three-particle systems.
We now describe the properties of the SU( >K ) chain in more algebraic terms. The relevant symmetry is the SU( K ) Yangian, which is usually referred to as Y ( sl K ). On the other hand, the Yangian symmetry of the Sutherland model with spin 1/2 is given by Y ( gl 2 ). The difference between Y ( sl K ) and Y ( gl K ) is that the charge degrees of freedom U(1) is absent in Y ( sl K ), while the spin degrees of freedom is included in both Y ( sl K ) and Y ( sl K ). In Section 4.8.3, we have removed the U(1) component by means of the freezing trick, i.e., by taking the infinitely large repulsion parameter. In this chapter we take a more algebraic approach to study Y ( sl K ), which makes the relation between Y ( gl K ) and Y ( sl K ) clearer. In Section 9.1, we begin with the construction of the SU( K ) monodromy matrix as the product form. The commuting property of the Cherednik–Dunkl operators plays a crucial role here. The monodromy matrix is the basic building block of the Yangian algbebra, as discussed in Section 8.2. Because the Hamiltonian of the SU( K ) spin chain and the monodromy matrix commute, each eigenstate of the spin chain constitutes a basis for representations of the SU( K ) Yangian. In Section 9.2 and 9.3, we discuss the quantum determinant by comparing it with the ordinary determinant. It is demonstrated in Section 9.4 that the quantum determinant has a scalar nature that leads to a simple evaluation. Because of the scalar nature, however, the quantum determinant cannot distinguish different SU( K ) Yangian states.
In this chapter, we give an example of how the Yangian theory works in practice in the calculation of physical quantities. Using the Yangian representation theory, calculation of the dynamical correlation function of the Sutherland model with gl K symmetry can be performed in the same way as (a modified version of) the single-component Sutherland model [189]. Namely, Uglov [189] showed that the spin and the spatial momentum can be unified as a fictitious momentum. This spin–momentum unification is particularly powerful for exact derivation of spin correlation functions [189, 197]. Further development for the SU( K ) chain has also been achieved [198, 199]. Uglov's theory is outlined in this chapter. In Section 10.1 we introduce as a prelude the symmetric Macdonald polynomials, which include the symmetric Jack polynomials as a special case. Then in Section 10.2, Uglov symmetric polynomials are introduced as another limit of symmetric Macdonald polynomials. We explain in Section 10.3 an isomorphism between the Fock space of the Sutherland model with SU(2) internal symmetry and the space of Laurent symmetric polynomials. The isomorphism by which the Yangian Gelfand–Zetlin basis is mapped onto the Uglov polynomials preserves the inner product. By this isomorphism, density and spin-density operators in the U(2) model find their correspondence in the single-component model. In this way, the calculations of dynamical density and spin-density correlation functions in the U(2) Sutherland model reduce to those of a modified version of the single-component Sutherland model. Macdonald symmetric polynomials We have seen in Section 2.5 that the Jack symmetric polynomials can be defined as the homogeneous symmetric polynomials of z = ( z 1 , …, z N ) satisfying conditions of triangularity (2.177) and orthogonality (2.196).
In this chapter we will reveal another piece of the algebraic structure of the Hubbard model. As was first observed by Uglov and Korepin [462], the Hubbard Hamiltonian on the infinite line is invariant under the action of the direct sum of two so-called Yangian quantum groups, extending the rotational and the η-pairing su(2) symmetries we encountered earlier. Following [172] we shall address the issue in a more general context. We present two pairs of fermionic representations of the Y(su(2)) Yangian quantum group which commute with the trigonometric [162] and hyperbolic [40, 41] versions of a Hubbard Hamiltonian with non-nearest-neighbour hopping. In both cases the two representations are also mutually commuting, hence can be combined into a representation of Y(su(2))⊕Y(su(2)). The generators of the Yangian symmetry of the ordinary Hubbard model (with nearest-neighbour hopping) and of a number of other interesting models like the Haldane-Shastry spin-chain [194, 394] are obtained as special cases of our general result. Introduction Quantum groups were introduced by Drinfeld [107, 109]. His original intention was to put what we called the Yang-Baxter algebra into the mathematically more conventional context of Hopf algebras. The Yangians are special quantum groups. Their representation theory [80, 81] is intimately related to the classification of integrable quantum systems with rational R -matrices.
The Sutherland model has a number of variants. One of them is the U( K ) Sutherland model [71, 85, 86, 132]. This model describes N particles moving along a circle of perimeter L , and each particle possesses an internal degree of freedom with K possible values. This corresponds to spin with K = 2, and more generally a color. In the U( K ) Sutherland model, all particles obey common statistics: bosonic or fermionic. We can generalize the model further. The U( K B , K F ) Sutherland model [177] consists of bosons having K B possible colors and fermions having K F colors. The multi-component Sutherland model has a degeneracy in energy levels which is described in terms of a Yangian. The Yangian is an algebra related to quantum groups [43, 44]. The Yangian is nicely realized by variants of Jack polynomials which are modified so as to conform to the internal symmetry. Elementary excitations in the multi-component Sutherland model are described in a few alternative ways: interacting bosonic or fermionic particles, or non-interacting particles obeying generalized exclusion statistics. Furthermore, the lattice models such as the Haldane–Shastry models [77, 161] and 1/ r 2 supersymmetric t – J model [119] are obtained in the strong coupling limit of U(2) and U(2, 1) Sutherland models, respectively. The Sutherland models in the continuum space are much more tractable mathematically than the corresponding lattice models. Hence, the mapping to lattice models turns out to be useful to derive the explicit results on thermodynamics and dynamics in lattice models. In the present chapter, we extend our treatment for the single-component Sutherland model in order to include the internal degrees of freedom. We shall discuss the energy spectrum, thermodynamics, and dynamical correlation functions.
We consider the su(p) spin chains with long-range interactions and the spin generalization of the Calogero-Sutherland models. We show that their properties derive from a transfer matrix obeying the Yang-Baxter equation. We obtain the expression of the conserved quantities of the dynamical models and we diagonalise them. In the spin chain case, we establish the connection between the degeneracies of the spectrum and the representation theory of the Yangians. We use a correspondence with the dynamical models to diagonalise the Hamiltonian. Finally, we extend the previous results to the case of a trigonometric R-matrix.
In this thesis we theoretically investigate the close relation between spin chains and Yangians. First, we investigate the Haldane-Shastry model, which symmetry algebra is a representation of the Yangian. We show this in full detail for the spin-1/2 model. We also give an argument why a spin-1 chain with Yangian symmetry cannot exist. \nAfter that, we turn to integrable spin chains which are constructed using the quantum inverse scattering method. Using this method, an integrable spin chain can be constructed from each so called R-matrix, which is a solution of the Yang-Baxter equation. Our main result is the construction of an R-matrix that is invariant under the adjoint representation of SU(n), which is found using an intertwining operator for the corresponding Yangian representation. The integrable\nspin chain that corresponds to this R-matrix is non-Hermitian, making its physical interpretation unclear. These results have been published recently as a preprint under arXiv:1606.02516. \nFinally, integrable spin chains with defects are studied. We present the Hamiltonian for the Heisenberg model and the Babujian-Takhtajan model with defects, such that these models keep there integrability while staying Lie algebra invariant.