Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

'Duality twisted' boundary conditions in n-state Potts models

Gunter Markus Schutz

Published Sep 21, 1993• 25 citations

Abstract

The author discusses a new class of toroidal boundary conditions for one-dimensional quantum Hamiltonians with S n symmetry which are related to two-dimensional n-state Potts models in the extreme anisotropic Hamiltonian limit. At their self-dual point (a point where a second-order phase transition occurs for n=2, 3, 4) the duality transformation is shown to be an additional symmetry giving rise to a new class of 'duality twisted' toroidal boundary conditions. The corresponding Hamiltonians are given in terms of generators of the periodic Temperley-Lieb algebra with an odd number of generators. The author discusses as an example the critical Ising model. Here the complete spectrum for the new boundary conditions can be obtained from a projection mechanism in the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain.

DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/26/18/021

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