Integrability and duality in spin chains

Abstract

We construct a two-parametric family of integrable models and reveal their underlying duality symmetry. A modular subgroup of this duality is shown to connect noninteracting modes of different models. We apply this solution and duality to a Richardson-Gaudin model and generate a novel integrable system termed the s-d wave Richardson-Gaudin-Kitaev interacting chain, interpolating s- and d-wave superconductivity. The phase diagram of this interacting model has a topological phase transition that can be connected to the duality, where the occupancy of the noninteracting mode serves as a topological order parameter.