International Journal of Modern Physics B
QUANTUM SUPERSPIN CHAINS
Timothy H. Baker, Peter Jarvis
Abstract
Supersymmetric formulations of spin-½ quantum chains, associated with integrable models, are considered. One class of super-extensions, based on low-dimensional classical and exceptional superalgebras containing sl(2), is illustrated with the case of osp(1/2). A more radical generalization, in which the algebra of Pauli matrices is identified with the algebra of supersymmetric quantum mechanics, is also presented, and some of its algebraic properties discussed.