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On domain wall boundary conditions for the XXZ spin Hamiltonian

Mathematical Physics 2009-12-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

In this note, we derive the spectrum of the infinite quantum XXZ spin chain with domain wall boundary conditions. The eigenstates are constructed as limits of Bethe states for the finite XXZ spin chain with quantum sl(2) invariant boundary conditions.

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@article{arxiv.0912.0348,
  title  = {On domain wall boundary conditions for the XXZ spin Hamiltonian},
  author = {Domenico Orlando and Susanne Reffert and Nicolai Reshetikhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0348},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure