Abstract The quantum spin 1/2 XXZ chain with anisotropy parameter Δ = − 1 / 2 possesses a dynamic supersymmetry on the lattice. This supersymmetry and a generalisation to higher spin are investigated in the case of open spin chains. A family of non-diagonal boundary interactions that are compatible with the lattice supersymmetry and depend on several parameters is constructed. The cohomology of the corresponding supercharges is explicitly computed as a function of the parameters and the length of the chain. This cohomology is shown to be non-trivial for certain specific values of the parameters that lead to diagonal boundary interactions. For spin 1/2, they were previously studied by Fendley and Yang. The non-trivial cohomology implies that the spin-chain ground states are supersymmetry singlets. Special scalar products involving an arbitrary number of these supersymmetry singlets for chains of different lengths are exactly computed. In the case of spin 1/2, the scalar products are used to determine the logarithmic bipartite fidelity. Its scaling limit is shown to match the predictions of conformal field theory.
Spin chains with exact supersymmetry on finite one-dimensional lattices are considered. The supercharges are nilpotent operators on the lattice of dynamical nature: they change the number of sites. A local criterion for the nilpotency on periodic lattices is formulated. Any of its solutions leads to a supersymmetric spin chain. It is shown that a class of special solutions at arbitrary spin gives the lattice equivalents of the
mathcalN=(2,2) superconformal minimal models. The case of spin one is investigated in detail: in particular, it is shown that the Fateev-Zamolodchikov chain and its off-critical extension possess a lattice supersymmetry for all its coupling constants. Its supersymmetry singlets are thoroughly analysed, and a relation between their components and the weighted enumeration of alternating sign matrices is conjectured
Abstract We investigate whether the dynamical lattice supersymmetry discussed for various Hamiltonians, including one-dimensional quantum spin chains, by (Fendley et al 2003 J. Phys. A 36, 12399424; Yang and Fendley 2004 J. Phys. A 37, 893748; Hagendorf and Fendley 2012 J. Stat. Phys. 146, 112255) and (Hagendorf et al 2013 J. Stat. Phys. 150, 60957; Hagendorf and Liénardy 2017 J. Phys. A 50, 185202; Hagendorf and Liénardy 2018 J. Stat. Mech. 033106) might also exist for the Markov matrices of any one-dimensional exclusion processes, which have the additional constraint of zero column sums by comparison with the spin chains. We find that the DiSSEP (Dissipative Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process), introduced by Crampe et al in (Crampe et al 2016 Phys. Rev. E 94, 032102; Vanicat [arXiv: 1708.02440 ]), provides one such example for suitably chosen parameters. The DiSSEP Markov matrix admits the supersymmetry in these cases because it is conjugate to Ising (λ 2 = 1) and Δ = −1/2 XXZ (λ 2 = −3) spin chain Hamiltonians which also possess the supersymmetry. The consequences for the spectrum of the DiSSEP Markov matrix are discussed. We also note that the length-changing supersymmetry relation for the DiSSEP Markov matrix M L and the supercharge Q L† for L sites, <?CDATA
MLQL†=QL†ML−1?> M L Q L † = Q L † M L − 1 , is reminiscent of a ‘transfer matrix’ symmetry that has been observed in other exclusion processes and discuss the similarity.