Thermodynamics and criticality of supersymmetric spin chains with long-range interactions

We study the thermodynamics and critical behavior of su(m|n) supersymmetric spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type with a chemical potential term. We obtain a closed-form expression for the partition function and deduce a description of the spectrum in terms of the supersymmetric version of Haldane...

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Autores: Finkel Morgenstern, Federico, González López, Artemio, Rodríguez González, Miguel Ángel, León Merino, Iván
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/12112
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12112
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
Inverse-square exchange
Conformal field-theory
Haldane-shastry type
D-N-type
Exact spectrum
Integrable systems
Partition-function
Heisenberg chain
Sutherland model
Bcn type
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Sumario:We study the thermodynamics and critical behavior of su(m|n) supersymmetric spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type with a chemical potential term. We obtain a closed-form expression for the partition function and deduce a description of the spectrum in terms of the supersymmetric version of Haldane's motifs, which we apply to obtain an analytic expression for the free energy per site in the thermodynamic limit. By studying the low-temperature behavior of the free energy, we characterize the critical behavior of the chains with 1 <= m, n <= 2, determining the critical regions and the corresponding central charge. We also show that in the su(2|1), su(1| 2) and su(2| 2) chains the bosonic or fermionic densities can undergo first-order ( discontinuous) phase transitions at T = 0, in contrast with the previously studied su(2) case.