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Algebraic Bethe ansatz for singular solutions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-07-10 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

The Bethe equations for the isotropic periodic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with N sites have solutions containing i/2, -i/2 that are singular: both the corresponding energy and the algebraic Bethe ansatz vector are divergent. Such solutions must be carefully regularized. We consider a regularization involving a parameter that can be determined using a generalization of the Bethe equations. These generalized Bethe equations provide a practical way of determining which singular solutions correspond to eigenvectors of the model.

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@article{arxiv.1304.7978,
  title  = {Algebraic Bethe ansatz for singular solutions},
  author = {Rafael I. Nepomechie and Chunguang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7978},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

10 pages; v2: refs added; v3: new section on general singular solutions, and more references

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