Counterexamples to ferromagnetic ordering of energy levels

DOI10.1063/1.3699015MaRDI QIDQ2860753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang Spitzer, Shannon Starr, Lam Tran

Publication date 20 November 2013

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1266

zbMATH Keywords

Aldous orderingexclusion process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: The Heisenberg ferromagnet has symmetry group $mSU(2)$. The property known as ferromagnetic ordering of energy levels (FOEL) states that the minimum energy eigenvalue among eigenvectors with total spin $s$ is monotone decreasing as a function of $s$. While this property holds for certain graphs such as open chains, in this note we demonstrate some counterexamples. We consider the spin 1/2 model on rings of length $2n$ for $n=2,3,\mathrm{...},8$, and show that the minimum energy among all spin singlets is less than or equal to the minimum energy among all spin triplets, which violates FOEL. This also shows some counterexamples to the "Aldous ordering" for the symmetric exclusion process. We also review some of the literature related to these examples.

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