We use the braid-monoid algebra to construct integrable mixed vertex models. The transfer matrix of a mixed SU(N) model is diagonalized by nested Bethe ansatz approach.
Given a family of monodromy matrices T0,T1,…,TK−1 corresponding to integrable anisotropic vertex models of Anμ−1 type, μ=0,1,…,K−1, we built up a related mixed vertex model by means of gluing the lattices on which they are defined, in such a way that integrability property is preserved. The gluing process is implemented through one-dimensional representations of rectangular quantum matrix algebras A(Rnμ−1:Rnμ), namely, the gluing matrices ζμ. Algebraic Bethe ansatz is applied on a pseudovacuum space with a selected basis and, for each element of this basis, it yields a set of nested Bethe ansatz equations matching up to the ones corresponding to an Am−1 quasiperiodic model, with m equal to minμ∈ZK{rank ζμ}.