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Classifying integrable spin-1/2 chains with nearest neighbour interactions

Mathematical Physics 2020-04-01 v3 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We classify all fundamental integrable spin chains with two-dimensional local Hilbert space which have regular R-matrices of difference form. This means that the R-matrix underlying the integrable structures is of the form R(u,v)=R(u-v) and reduces to the permutation operator at some particular point. We find a total of 14 independent solutions, 8 of which correspond to well-known eight or lower vertex models. The remaining 6 models appear to be new and some have peculiar properties such as not being diagonalizable or being nilpotent. Furthermore, for even R-matrices, we find a bijection between solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation and the graded Yang-Baxter equation which extends our results to the graded two-dimensional case.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12005,
  title  = {Classifying integrable spin-1/2 chains with nearest neighbour interactions},
  author = {Marius de Leeuw and Anton Pribytok and Paul Ryan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12005},
  year   = {2020}
}

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