Droplet excitations for the spin-1/2 XXZ chain with kink boundary conditions

Annales Henri Poincare

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-201

  Nachtergaele, Bruno ^a   Spitzer, Wolfgang ^b   Starr, Shannon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33847302102     PISSN: 14240637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00023-006-0304-6     Document Type: Article

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