Absence of Local Conserved Quantity in the Heisenberg Model with Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction

Abstract

We rigorously prove that the \(S=1/2\) anisotropic Heisenberg chain (XYZ chain) with next-nearest-neighbor interaction, which is anticipated to be non-integrable, is indeed non-integrable in the sense that this system has no nontrivial local conserved quantity. Our result covers some important models including the Majumdar–Ghosh model, the Shastry–Sutherland model, and many other zigzag spin chains as special cases. These models are shown to be non-integrable while they have some solvable energy eigenstates. In addition to this result, we provide a pedagogical review of the proof of non-integrability of the \(S=1/2\) XYZ chain with Z magnetic field, whose proof technique is employed in our result.