Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Operator content of the three-state Potts quantum chain

G von Gehlen, V. Rittenberg

Published Jul 11, 1986• 56 citations

Abstract

The authors compute the lowest excitations of the spectra of the three-state Potts quantum chain with periodic and twisted boundary conditions. These spectra can be understood in terms of eighteen irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra with c=4/5.

DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/19/10/013

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