The Ladder Operator Approach to Constructing Conserved Operators in Integrable One-Dimensional Lattice Models
M. C. Takizawa
Abstract
The theory of constructing integrable systems using solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation (YBE) is well established. The conserved operators can be obtained by a series expansion for the family of commuting transfer matrices. Another approach is to use the ladder operator, which permits a recursive method through repeated commutators, to obtain the conserved operators. The ladder operator for models where the solution of the YBE has the difference property is well known. Recently it has been shown that a ladder operator exists for the Hubbard model, which does not have the difference property, and the present work extends this to a general theory for the construction of the ladder operator for any integrable system obtained through the YBE, with the XYh model as an example. The existence of ladder operators for integrable models constructed from other variants of the YBE, such as closed chains with quantum algebra symmetry and the Heisenberg model with single site impurity, is also considered.