Modular families of elliptic long-range spin chains from freezing

Abstract We consider the construction of quantum-integrable spin chains with q -deformed long-range interactions by ‘freezing’ integrable quantum many-body systems with spins. The input is a (quantum) spin-Ruijsenaars system along with an equilibrium configuration of the underlying spinless classical Ruijsenaars–Schneider system. We focus on the elliptic case. For a distinguished choice of equilibrium, the resulting long-range spin chain has a real spectrum and admits a short-range limit, providing an integrable interpolation from nearest-neighbor to long-range interacting spins. We first define an action of the modular group on the spinless elliptic Ruijsenaars–Schneider system to show that, for a fixed elliptic parameter, it has a whole modular family of classical equilibrium configurations. These typically have constant but nonzero momenta. Then we use the setting of deformation quantization to provide a uniform framework for freezing elliptic spin-Ruijsenaars systems at any classical equilibrium while preserving quantum integrability. As we showed in previous work, the results include the Heisenberg, Inozemtsev and Haldane–Shastry chains along with their xxz -like q -deformations (face type), or the antiperiodic Haldane–Shastry chain of Fukui–Kawakami, its elliptic generalization of Sechin–Zotov, and their completely anisotropic q -deformations due to Matushko–Zotov (vertex type). Finally, we show how freezing fits in the setting of ‘hybrid’ integrable systems.