Finite-size effects in the spectrum of the OSp(3|2)OSp(3|2) superspin chain

The low energy spectrum of a spin chain with OSp(3|2)OSp(3|2) supergroup symmetry is studied based on the Bethe ansatz solution of the related vertex model. This model is a lattice realization of intersecting loops in two dimensions with loop fugacity z=1z=1 which provides a framework to study the critical properties of the unusual low temperature Goldstone phase of the O(N)O(N) sigma model for N=1N=1 in the context of an integrable model. Our finite-size analysis provides strong evidence for the existence of continua of scaling dimensions, the lowest of them starting at the ground state. Based on our data we conjecture that the so-called watermelon correlation functions decay logarithmically with exponents related to the quadratic Casimir operator of OSp(3|2)OSp(3|2). The presence of a continuous spectrum is not affected by a change to the boundary conditions although the density of states in the continua appears to be modified.