Integrability from a single conservation law in quantum spin chains

Abstract

We prove that, for translationally invariant quantum spin chains with finite-range interactions, the existence of a specific conservation law implies the presence of infinitely many local conserved quantities, i.e., integrability. This shows that the standard hierarchy of local conserved quantities arising for nearest-neighbor Hamiltonians obtained via the canonical Yang-Baxter construction is already encoded in the lowest nontrivial conservation law, known as the Reshetikhin condition. 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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