Integrability from a Single Conservation Law in Quantum Spin Chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20713v3
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:06:32 GMT
• Title: Integrability from a Single Conservation Law in Quantum Spin Chains
• Authors: Akihiro Hokkyo,
• Abstract summary: We prove that for quantum spin chains with finite-range interactions, the Reshetikhin condition implies the presence of infinitely many local conserved quantities.<n>This shows that the hierarchy of conservation laws associated with solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation is already encoded in the lowest nontrivial conservation law.
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• Abstract: We prove that for quantum spin chains with finite-range interactions, the existence of a specific conservation law known as the Reshetikhin condition implies the presence of infinitely many local conserved quantities, i.e., integrability. This shows that the entire hierarchy of conservation laws associated with solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation is already encoded in the lowest nontrivial conservation law. Combined with recent rigorous results on nonintegrability, our theorem strongly restricts the possibility of partially integrable systems that admit only a finite but large number of local conserved quantities. Our work establishes a rigorous foundation for the systematic identification of new integrable models and deepens the algebraic understanding of conservation-law structures in quantum spin chains.

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