Operator content of the three-state Potts quantum chain
- 11 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 19 (10) , L625-L629
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/19/10/013
Abstract
The authors compute the lowest excitations of the spectra of the three-state Potts quantum chain with periodic and twisted boundary conditions. These spectra can be understood in terms of eighteen irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra with c=4/5.Keywords
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