q-DEFORMATIONS OF QUANTUM SPIN CHAINS WITH EXACT VALENCE-BOND GROUND STATES
1994 ◽
Vol 08
(25n26)
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pp. 3645-3654
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Quantum spin chains with exact valence-bond ground states are of great interest in condensed-matter physics. A class of such models was proposed by Affleck et al., each of which is su(2)-invariant and constructed as a sum of projectors onto definite total spin states at neighboring sites. We propose to use the machinery of the q-deformation of su(2) to obtain generalisations of such models, and work out explicitly the two simplest examples. In one case we recover the known anisotropic spin-1 VBS model while in the other we obtain a new anisotropic generalisation of the spin-½ Majumdar-Ghosh model.
1991 ◽
Vol 24
(4)
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pp. L185-L189
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1989 ◽
Vol 10
(7)
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pp. 633-637
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1994 ◽
Vol 08
(04)
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pp. 417-428
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