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Ground state energy and mass gap of a generalised quantum spin ladder

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We show that a 2-leg ladder hamiltonian introduced recently by Albeverio and Fei (cond-mat/9807341) can be made to satisfy the Hecke algebra. As a result we have found an equivalent representation of the eigenspectrum in terms of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic XXZ chain at Δ=5/3\Delta = - 5/3. The values of thermodynamic quantities such as the ground state energy and mass gap follow from the known XXZ results.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9907480,
  title  = {Ground state energy and mass gap of a generalised quantum spin ladder},
  author = {M. T. Batchelor and M. Maslen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9907480},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, Latex