Open XXZ chain and boundary modes at zero temperature
Sebastian Grijalva, Jacopo De Nardis, Veronique Terras
SciPost Phys. 7, 023 (2019) · published 20 August 2019
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.2.023
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Abstract
We study the open XXZ spin chain in the anti-ferromagnetic regime and for generic longitudinal magnetic fields at the two boundaries. We discuss the ground state via the Bethe ansatz and we show that, for a chain of even length L and in a regime where both boundary magnetic fields are equal and bounded by a critical field, the spectrum is gapped and the ground state is doubly degenerate up to exponentially small corrections in L. We connect this degeneracy to the presence of a boundary root, namely an excitation localized at one of the two boundaries. We compute the local magnetization at the left edge of the chain and we show that, due to the existence of a boundary root, this depends also on the value of the field at the opposite edge, even in the half-infinite chain limit. Moreover we give an exact expression for the large time limit of the spin autocorrelation at the boundary, which we explicitly compute in terms of the form factor between the two quasi-degenerate ground states. This, as we show, turns out to be equal to the contribution of the boundary root to the local magnetization. We finally discuss the case of chains of odd length.
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Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques [LPTMS]
- 2 Universiteit Gent / Ghent University
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS]
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) (through Organization: Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen / Research Foundation - Flanders [FWO])
- Simons Foundation