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Functional methods for the solution of one-dimensional quantum systems

Tobias Wirth

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Subject of this work are integrable spin chains with general boundary conditions.In the framework of the Quantum Inverse Scattering Method Sklyanin has shown how to construct a family of commuting operators (transfer matrix) containing the hamiltonian of the XXX or XXZ spin chain with general boundary fields.Key ingredient is the underlying algebraic structure which is a combination of the Yang-Baxter algebra, using the known R-matrix representations, and a so-called Reflection algebra.The latter includes fields of arbitrary strength and direction acting on the first and last position of the chain.This setup is solvable via algebraic Bethe ansatz in the case of diagonal boundaries, i.e. the fields are parallel to each other and in the case of the XXZ model parallel to the distinguished direction.Kitanine et al. have managed to express local operators in terms of the non-local elements of the underlying algebraic structure in the case of half-infinite chain length hence establishing a possible approach to evaluate expectation values of physical observables.Their results will be picked up in this work and generalized to spin chains of arbitrary (including finite) lengths using non-linear integral equations for the lowest lying state with zero magnetization.In the case of non-diagonal boundary fields the lack of a reference state or pseudo vacuum prohibits the solution by algebraic Bethe ansatz.The method of separation of variables proposed by Sklyanin is not constrained in that sense and will be applied to this situation.In this approach for the XXX spin chain no restrictions to the boundary parameters are needed.The result is a TQ-equation on a finite discrete set of points and the eigenvalues of the transfer matrix are obtainable from this finite difference equation.As the underlying algebraic structure is independent of the representation, the analysis for the XXX spin chain can be extended to a spin-boson model.Using a known representation of the algebra for the bosonic degree of freedom again a TQ-equation is obtained but in this case being defined on an infinite discrete set of points.Finally a different approach to the case of non-diagonal boundary conditions using non-linear integral equations is studied.By construction of higher dimensional representations of the Yang Baxter algebra a hierarchy of transfer matrices is obtained.In this construction two R-matrices are fused together yielding the name of fusion hierarchy.From such hierarchies it is possible to derive non-linear integral equations for a certain eigenvalue of the transfer matrix using Fourier transform techniques.The equations are valid for arbitrary system sizes and a range of boundary parameters.By careful analysis of the zero and pole structure it is possible to extract information about the eigenvalue of a specific state.

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10.15488/7558

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We solve the longstanding problem of defining a functional characterization of the spectrum of the transfer matrix associated with the most general spin-1/2 representations of the six-vertex reflection algebra for general inhomogeneous chains. The corresponding homogeneous limit reproduces the spectrum of the Hamiltonian of the spin-1/2 open XXZ and XXX quantum chains with the most general integrable boundaries. The spectrum is characterized by a second order finite difference functional equation of Baxter type with an inhomogeneous term which vanishes only for some special but yet interesting non-diagonal boundary conditions. This functional equation is shown to be equivalent to the known separation of variables (SOV) representation, hence proving that it defines a complete characterization of the transfer matrix spectrum. The polynomial form of the Q -function allows us to show that a finite system of generalized Bethe equations can also be used to describe the complete transfer matrix spectrum.
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The objective of this thesis is to study the isotropic XXX-1/2 spin chain model using the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz. To this end, we discuss the concept of integrability as well as the Lax operator and R-matrix, which help generate as many commuting operators in involution as there are degrees of freedom. We establish that the spin chain Hamiltonian belongs to this set and provide a definition of a state vector whose parameters, the Bethe roots, are constrained by a set of equations called the Bethe Ansatz Equations. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the Bethe roots and the eigenfunctions of the system. Next, we proceed to study the nature of the low-lying excitations of both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic model in the thermodynamic limit N → ∞ and show that the Bethe roots can be grouped into complexes or strings, which behave like bound states. We see that integrability is directly related to diffractionless scattering, which is obeyed by systems whose scattering matrices satisfy the Yang-Baxter Equation. In order to provide a more physical interpretation, we calculate the scattering matrix of the two-body problem for a system that satisfies the Yang-Baxter Equation and obtain exchange relations that are identical to those obtained using the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for the XXX-1/2 spin chain model. Finally, we calculate the scattering matrix for a two-body problem interacting with a delta potential and show that this is the same as what we derived using the Coordinate Bethe Ansatz.