The method of the reconstruction of local quantum operators in terms of the elements of the quantum monodromy matrix is applied to the XXZ spin-½ Heisenberg chain with integrable boundary conditions.
For the integrable spin- s XXZ chain we express explicitly any given spin- s form factor in terms of a sum over the scalar products of the spin-1/2 fundamental operators of the algebraic Bethe ansatz. Here, they are given by the operator-valued matrix elements of the monodromy matrix of the spin-1/2 XXZ spin chain. We derive the reduction formula of higher-spin form factors by the fusion method in detail. We call an arbitrary matrix element of a local operator between two Bethe eigenstates a form factor of the operator in this paper. We thus revise the derivation of the higher-spin XXZ form factors given in a previous paper. The revised method has several interesting applications in mathematical physics. For instance, we express the spin- s XXZ correlation function of an arbitrary entry at zero temperature in terms of a sum of multiple integrals.
A general approach to the computation of exact correlation functions of lattice quantum integrable models proposed recently is reviewed.It is based on the resolution of the so-called quantum inverse scattering problem, namely, the reconstruction of local operators in terms of the (operator) entries of the quantum monodromy matrix obeying a Yang-Baxter algebra.The application of this method to the XXZ Heisenberg spin-1 2 chain in a magnetic field leads to multiple integral representations of its n-point correlation functions.For zero magnetic field, it gives a proof, in both the massless and massive (anti-ferromagnetic) regimes, of the formulas obtained from the q-deformed KZ equations (massless regime) and the representation theory of the quantum affine algebra U q ( ŝl 2 ) together with the corner transfer matrix approach (massive regime).
The integrable quantum models, associated with the transfer matrices of the 6-vertex reflection algebra for spin-1/2 representations, are studied in this paper. In the framework of Sklyanin’s quantum separation of variables (SOV), we provide the complete characterization of the eigenvalues and eigenstates of the transfer matrix and the proof of the simplicity of the transfer matrix spectrum. Moreover, we use these integrable quantum models as further key examples for which to develop a method in the SOV framework to compute matrix elements of local operators. This method is based on the resolution of the quantum inverse problem (i.e. the reconstruction of local operators in terms of the quantum separate variables) plus the computation of the action of separate covectors on separate vectors . In particular, for these integrable quantum models, which in the homogeneous limit reproduce the open spin-1/2 X X Z quantum chains with non-diagonal boundary conditions, we have obtained the SOV-reconstruction for a class of quasi-local operators and determinant formulae for the covector–vector actions. As a consequence of these findings we provide one determinant formula for the matrix elements of this class of reconstructed quasi-local operator on transfer matrix eigenstates.