A TEMPLATE FOR QUANTUM SPIN CHAIN SPECTRA

Abstract

We consider a series of N-state L(≥N) site quantum spin chains, characterised by the ordered partition of N into 2 parts, N=P+M. These (P/M) chains are invariant under an action of UqSU(P/M), and are built from a representation of the Hecke algebra HL-1(q). We establish that the intersection of the spectra of a (P/M) and (P'/M') chain of fixed length L is the spectrum of the (min(P,P')/min(M,M')) chain of that length. We establish that the spectrum of the (P/M) chain breaks into blocks corresponding to irreducible representations of HL-1(q) (or equivalently irreducible representations of UqSU(P/M)) characterised by Young diagrams with no rectangular subdiagrams of dimension (P+1)×(M+1) (height × width resp.). We give the corresponding quotient relations for the Hecke algebra. We discuss several implications of these results.