New Boundary Bound States in an Open Quantum Spin Chain

TL;DR

This paper discovers new boundary bound states in an open quantum Heisenberg spin chain with magnetic impurities, revealing their formation, properties, and implications for Kondo screening.

Contribution

It introduces novel boundary bound states in an integrable model, characterized by specific imaginary rapidity modes and their localized edge formation.

Findings

Bound states carry real energy.

Bound states formed by three or five imaginary rapidity modes.

Kondo screening occurs with ferromagnetic impurities.

Abstract

New boundary bound states (BBS) are found of an integrable model with the magnetic impurities located at the edges of an open Heisenberg spin chain. These bound states carry the real energy and are formed by three or five imaginary modes of the rapidities. These imaginary modes of the rapidities give the non-zero antisymmetric wave functions and the moments of the centers of the bound states are zero. It means that these bound states are arisen by the magnetic impurities and localized at the edges of the correlated system. The Kondo screening occurs for the antiferromagnetic spin chain with the ferromagnetic impurities-electrons exchange interaction.