Quantum Spectral Curve for the eta-deformed AdS_5xS^5 superstring

TL;DR

This paper extends the quantum spectral curve framework to the eta-deformed AdS5xS5 superstring, providing a new integrability-based method to analyze its spectral problem and its relation to undeformed and mirror models.

Contribution

It derives the quantum spectral curve for the eta-deformed superstring, connecting it to thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations and exploring its limits and deformations.

Findings

Derived the quantum spectral curve for eta-deformed string.

Connected the spectral problem to thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and Y/T systems.

Identified limits corresponding to undeformed and mirror models.

Abstract

The spectral problem for the ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ superstring and its dual planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory can be efficiently solved through a set of functional equations known as the quantum spectral curve. We discuss how the same concepts apply to the $\eta$-deformed ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ superstring, an integrable deformation of the ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ superstring with quantum group symmetry. This model can be viewed as a trigonometric version of the ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ superstring, like the relation between the XXZ and XXX spin chains, or the sausage and the ${\rm S}^2$ sigma models for instance. We derive the quantum spectral curve for the $\eta$-deformed string by reformulating the corresponding ground-state thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations as an analytic $Y$ system, and map this to an analytic $T$ system which upon suitable gauge fixing leads to a $\mathbf{P} \mu$ system -- the quantum spectral curve. We then discuss constraints on the asymptotics of this system to single out particular excited states. At the spectral level the $\eta$-deformed string and its quantum spectral curve interpolate between the ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ superstring and a superstring on "mirror" ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$, reflecting a more general relationship between the spectral and thermodynamic data of the $\eta$-deformed string. In particular, the spectral problem of the mirror ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ string, and the thermodynamics of the undeformed ${\rm AdS}_5\times {\rm S}^5$ string, are described by a second rational limit of our trigonometric quantum spectral curve, distinct from the regular undeformed limit.