Exactly solved vertex model

Author(s)

Anderson Augusto Ferreira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT)
• Defense date: 2005-03-16

Examining board members

Francisco Castilho Alcaraz; Silvio Roberto de Azevedo Salinas; Walter Felipe Wreszinski

• Advisor: Francisco Castilho Alcaraz

Abstract

In this dissertation we present the first application of a recent introduces Matrix Product Ansatz [8], in the exact solution of the transfer matrices associated to vertex models. The exact integrability is obtained through the diagonalization of the diagonal-to-diagonal transfer matrix. We studied two classes of models. In the first one we introduced new vertex models, that we call as interacting 5 vertex models. On these models beyond the nearest-neighbor interactions among the vertices, imposed by the ice rule, they also have repulsive interactions along the diagonal. The famous 6-vertex model is just a special case this class of models. The eigenspectrum of this transfer matrix, analogously as in the traditional Bethe ansatz, is obtained in terms of the roots of nonlinear equation. An analytical and numerical study of these equations we done on the first class. These results together with the machinery coming from conformal invariance allow us the study the model on its critical region. The second class of models we considered were the 10 vertex models that satisfy ice rules we obtained all the possible exact integrable models on this class, rederiving earlier results on the literature as were producing new ones. (AU)