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Simplified Calculation of Boundary S Matrices

Anastasia Doikou, Luca Mezincescu, Rafael I. Nepomechie

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9705187

Abstract

The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chain with N spins has a sector with N=odd, in which the number of excitations is odd. In particular, there is a state with a single one-particle excitation. We exploit this fact to give a simplified derivation of the boundary S matrix for the open antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg spin chain with diagonal boundary magnetic fields.

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