Stationary states of stochastic models, which have
N states per site, in matrix product form are considered. First we give a necessary condition for the existence of a finite
M-dimensional matrix product state for any
N,M. Second, we give a method to construct the matrices from the stationary states of small size system when the above condition and
N≤M are satisfied. Third, the method by which one can check that the obtained matrices are valid for any system size is presented for the case where
M=N is satisfied. The application of our methods is explained using three examples: the asymmetric exclusion process, a model studied in [F. H. Jafarpour: J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 (2003) 7497] and a hybrid of both of the models.
Proposed is a method to construct a stationary state of one-dimensional integrable systems in the form of products of matrices. This is a generalization of the so-called “matrix product ansatz (MPA)”. The key idea is that the matrices are chosen to constitute the Zamolodchikov-Faddeev algebra (ZF-algebra) for the R-matrix and the K-matrix, which are the solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation (YBE) and the reflection equation (RE). It is shown that a matrix product state gives a simultaneous stationary state of commuting operators which are expressed in terms of the R-matrices and the K-matrices. As an example, a solution for the isotropic Heisenberg spin chain with non-diagonal boundary fields is given. The connection to the conventional MPA is clarified. Applications to other models and the relationship to the algebraic Bethe ansatz (ABA) are also discussed.