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Isolated eigenvalues of the ferromagnetic spin-J XXZ chain with kink boundary conditions

Jaideep Mulherkar1, Bruno Nachtergaele1, Robert Sims1 and Shannon Starr2

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We investigate the low-lying excited states of the spin J ferromagnetic XXZ chain with Ising anisotropy Δ and kink boundary conditions. Since the third component of the total magnetization, M, is conserved, it is meaningful to study the spectrum for each fixed value of M. We prove that for J≥3/2 the lowest excited eigenvalues are separated by a gap from the rest of the spectrum, uniformly in the length of the chain. In the thermodynamic limit, this means that there are a positive number of excitations above the ground state and below the essential spectrum.


Keywords

spin chains, ladders and planes (theory)

rigorous results in statistical mechanics

 

E-print Number: 0709.1733

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PACS

75.10.Pq Spin chain models

75.10.Jm Quantized spin models

75.30.Gw Magnetic anisotropy

75.60.Ej Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

MSC

82B10 Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

15A18 Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors

82B20 Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs

82B80 Numerical methods (Monte Carlo, series resummation, etc.) (See also 65-XX, 81T80)

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 01 (January 2008)

Received 24 September 2007, accepted for publication 20 December 2007

Published 18 January 2008



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