arXiv:cond-mat/0201354 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
The finite-size SU(3) Perk-Schultz model with deformation parameter q = exp (2i$\pi$/3)
Francisco Castilho Alcaraz, Yu. G. Stroganov
Abstract
From extensive numeric diagonalizations of the SU (3) Perk-Schultz Hamiltonian with a special value of the anisotropy and different boundary conditions, we have observed simple regularities for a significant part of its eigenspectrum. In particular, the ground-state energy and nearby excitations belong to this part of the spectrum. Our simple formulae describing these regularities recall, apart from some selection rules, the eigenspectrum of the free-fermion model. Based on the numerical observations we formulate several conjectures. Using explicit solutions of the associated nested Bethe-ansatz equations, guessed from an analysis of the functional equations of the model, we provide evidence for some of them.