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A Spin Chain Primer

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems solv-int

Abstract

This is a very elementary introduction to the Heisenberg (XXX) quantum spin chain, the Yang-Baxter equation, and the algebraic Bethe Ansatz.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9810032,
  title  = {A Spin Chain Primer},
  author = {Rafael I. Nepomechie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9810032},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, LaTeX; to be published in Proceedings "New Symmetries in Statistical Mechanics and Condensed Matter Physics"