The Importance of being Odd

Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics

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9 pages, based on the talk given at NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Dynamical Symmetries in Integrable Two-dimensional Quantu

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10.1088/0305-4470/34/13/104

In this letter I consider mainly a finite XXZ spin chain with periodic boundary conditions and \bf{odd} \rm number of sites. This system is described by the Hamiltonian $H_{xxz}=-\sum_{j=1}^{N}\{\sigma_j^{x}\sigma_{j+1}^{x} +\sigma_j^{y}\sigma_{j+1}^{y} +\Delta \sigma_j^z\sigma_{j+1}^z\}$. As it turned out, its ground state energy is exactly proportional to the number of sites $E=-3N/2$ for a special value of the asymmetry parameter $\Delta=-1/2$. The trigonometric polynomial $q(u)$, zeroes of which being the parameters of the ground state Bethe eigenvector is explicitly constructed. This polynomial of degree $n=(N-1)/2$ satisfy the Baxter T-Q equation. Using the second independent solution of this equation corresponding to the same eigenvalue of the transfer matrix, it is possible to find a derivative of the ground state energy w.r.t. the asymmetry parameter. This derivative is closely connected with the correlation function $<\sigma_j^z\sigma_{j+1}^z> =-1/2+3/2N^2$. In its turn this correlation function is related to an average number of spin strings for the ground state of the system under consideration: $ = {3/8}(N-1/N)$. I would like to stress once more that all these simple formulas are \bf wrong \rm in the case of even number of sites. Exactly this case is usually considered.

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