We investigate the thermodynamic limit and exact surface energy of the isotropic spin-1 Heisenberg chain with integrable generic open boundary conditions by a novel Bethe ansatz method. We obtain the homogeneous Bethe ansatz equations for the zero roots of the transfer matrix. Based on the patterns of the zero roots, we analytical calculate the densities of zero roots and the surface energies of the model in all regimes of the boundary parameters.
@article{arxiv.2401.03172,
title = {Root patterns and exact surface energy of the spin-1 Heisenberg model with generic open boundaries},
author = {Jiasheng Dong and Pengcheng Lu and Junpeng Cao and Wen-Li Yang and Ian Marquette and Yao-Zhong Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03172},
year = {2024}
}