Low energy properties of the SU(m|n) supersymmetric Haldane-Shastry spin chain

The ground state and low energy excitations of the SU(m|n) supersymmetric Haldane-Shastry spin chain are analyzed. In the thermodynamic limit, it is found that the ground state degeneracy is finite only for the SU(m|0) and SU(m|1) spin chains, while the dispersion relation for the low energy and low momentum excitations is linear for all values of m and n. We show that the low energy excitations of the SU(m|1) spin chain are described by a conformal field theory of m non-interacting Dirac fermions which have only positive energies; the central charge of this theory is m/2. Finally, for n \ge 1, the partition functions of the SU(m|n) Haldane-Shastry spin chain and the SU(m|n) Polychronakos spin chain are shown to be related in a simple way in the thermodynamic limit at low temperatures.

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The paper provides a comprehensive exact analysis of the ground state and low‑energy excitations of the supersymmetric Haldane‑Shastry (HS) spin chain with SU(m|n) symmetry. After introducing the model, the authors emphasize that the Hamiltonian possesses long‑range inverse‑square exchange together with an SU(m|n) super‑algebra and a Yangian Y