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Solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation for isotropic quantum spin chains

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, , Citation T Kennedy 1992 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 25 2809 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/25/10/010

0305-4470/25/10/2809

Abstract

The author considers solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation such that the logarithmic derivative of the transfer matrix yields a quantum spin Hamiltonian which is isotropic in spin space, i.e. SU(2)-invariant. Four such solutions are known for each value of the spin S. (For S=1/2 they degenerate into the same solution, and for S=1 they only give three different solutions). For S<or=6 he shows that these are the only solutions which are SU(2)-invariant, except for S=3 when there is a fifth solution.

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10.1088/0305-4470/25/10/010