Spin Waves, Vortices, Fermions, and Duality in the king and Baxter Models

Physical Simulation of Baroclinic Waves and Vortices in the Atmosphere

Quasi-classical descendants of disordered vertex models with boundaries

We study descendants of inhomogeneous vertex models with boundary reflections when the spin-spin scattering is assumed to be quasi–classical. This corresponds to consider certain power expansion of the boundary-Yang-Baxter equation (or reflection equation). As final product, integrable su(2)-spin chains interacting with a long range with XXZ anisotropy are obtained. The spin-spin couplings are ...

Topological Defects on the Lattice I: The Ising model

In this paper and its sequel, we construct topologically invariant defects in two-dimensional classical lattice models and quantum spin chains. We show how defect lines commute with the transfer matrix/Hamiltonian when they obey the defect commutation relations, cousins of the Yang-Baxter equation. These relations and their solutions can be extended to allow defect lines to branch and fuse, aga...

Exact mapping between classical and topological orders in two-dimensional spin systems

Motivated by the duality between site-centered spin and bond-centered spin in one-dimensional system, which connects two different constructions of fermions from the same set of Majorana fermions, we show that two-dimensional models with topological orders can be constructed from certain well-known models with classical orders characterized by symmetry breaking. Topology-dependent ground state ...

Discretely Holomorphic Parafermions and Integrable Loop Models

We define parafermionic observables in various lattice loop models, including examples where no Kramers-Wannier duality holds. For a particular rhombic embedding of the lattice in the plane and a value of the parafermionic spin these variables are discretely holomorphic (they satisfy a lattice version of the Cauchy-Riemann equations) as long as the Boltzmann weights satisfy certain linear const...