SCALAR KINKS

Abstract
We determine the excitations and S matrix of an integrable isotropic antiferromagnetic quantum spin chain of alternating spin 1/2 and spin 1. There are two types of gapless one-particle excitations: the usual spin 1/2 (“spinor”) kink, and a new spin 0 (“scalar”) kink. Remarkably, the scalar-spinor scattering is nontrivial, yet the spinor-spinor scattering is the same as for the Heisenberg chain. Moreover, there is no scalar-scalar scattering.
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