Spectra of non-Hermitian quantum spin chains describing boundary induced phase transitions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/14/008zbMATH Open0934.82012arXivcond-mat/9611163OpenAlexW1994316941MaRDI QIDQ4248360FDOQ4248360

Authors: Ulrich Bilstein, Birgit Wehefritz 

Publication date: 11 April 2000

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The spectrum of the non-hermitian asymmetric XXZ-chain with additional non-diagonal boundary terms is studied. The lowest lying eigenvalues are determined numerically. For the ferromagnetic and completely asymmetric chain that corresponds to a reaction-diffusion model with input and outflow of particles the smallest energy gap which corresponds directly to the inverse of the temporal correlation length shows the same properties as the spatial correlation length of the stationary state. For the antiferromagnetic chain with both boundary terms, we find a conformal invariant spectrum where the partition function corresponds to the one of a Coulomb gas with only magnetic charges shifted by a purely imaginary and a lattice-length dependent constant. Similar results are obtained by studying a toy model that can be diagonalized analytically in terms of free fermions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9611163

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesantiferromagnetic chainconformal invariant spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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