Solving models with generalized free fermions II: Path-product expansion and conserved charges
Abstract
Free-fermion solvability in quantum spin systems is increasingly understood to be governed by a graph Clifford algebra defined from the frustration graph of the Hamiltonian. When the frustration graph belongs to certain classes, such as the even-hole-free and claw-free (ECF) class, the Hamiltonian is solvable by hidden free fermions: it admits a free-fermion solution although it does not reduce to a Majorana bilinear under the Jordan-Wigner transformation. However, unlike in the Jordan-Wigner case, where each mode is a linear combination of single Majorana fermions, the explicit operator structure of the hidden free-fermion modes---and that of the local conserved charges---has remained obscure. In this work, we derive a path-product expansion that expresses each free-fermion mode as a linear combination of products along induced paths in the extended frustration graph. The expansion follows from the Krylov generating function and yields the modes directly, without using the transfer matrix or nonlocal conserved charges; the resulting mode decomposition also computes infinite-temperature dynamical correlation functions. We further obtain explicit expressions for local conserved charges as linear combinations of path products along induced paths; these charges apply beyond the free-fermion (ECF) class to more general claw-free frustration graphs. We also identify a family of generalized conserved charges containing both the known nonlocal conserved charges and these local charges. For the homogeneous periodic Fendley model, the local conserved charges exhibit the same Catalan-tree pattern as those of the spin-1/2 XXX chain.
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BibTeX
@misc{fukai2026solving,
title = {{Solving models with generalized free fermions II: Path-product expansion and conserved charges}},
author = {Kohei Fukai and Balázs Pozsgay and István Vona},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.31453},
eprint = {2605.31453},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31453},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Solving models with generalized free fermions II: Path-product expansion and conserved charges
AU - Kohei Fukai
AU - Balázs Pozsgay
AU - István Vona
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/31
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.31453
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31453
AB - Free-fermion solvability in quantum spin systems is increasingly understood to be governed by a graph Clifford algebra defined from the frustration graph of the Hamiltonian. When the frustration graph belongs to certain classes, such as the even-hole-free and claw-free (ECF) class, the Hamiltonian is solvable by hidden free fermions: it admits a free-fermion solution although it does not reduce to a Majorana bilinear under the Jordan-Wigner transformation. However, unlike in the Jordan-Wigner case, where each mode is a linear combination of single Majorana fermions, the explicit operator structure of the hidden free-fermion modes---and that of the local conserved charges---has remained obscure. In this work, we derive a path-product expansion that expresses each free-fermion mode as a linear combination of products along induced paths in the extended frustration graph. The expansion follows from the Krylov generating function and yields the modes directly, without using the transfer matrix or nonlocal conserved charges; the resulting mode decomposition also computes infinite-temperature dynamical correlation functions. We further obtain explicit expressions for local conserved charges as linear combinations of path products along induced paths; these charges apply beyond the free-fermion (ECF) class to more general claw-free frustration graphs. We also identify a family of generalized conserved charges containing both the known nonlocal conserved charges and these local charges. For the homogeneous periodic Fendley model, the local conserved charges exhibit the same Catalan-tree pattern as those of the spin-1/2 XXX chain.
ER -