Spectral gaps for the two-species product vacua and boundary states models on the d-dimensional lattice

DOI10.1007/S10955-019-02261-ZzbMATH Open1419.82006arXiv1705.04755OpenAlexW2963982798MaRDI QIDQ2000730FDOQ2000730

Michael Bishop

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the two-species Product Vacua and Boundary States (PVBS) models on the integer lattice $mathbb{Z}^d$ and prove the existence and non-existence of a spectral gap for all choices of parameters. The PVBS models are spin-1 quantum spin systems which are translation-invariant, frustration-free, and composed of nearest-neighbor non-commuting interactions with both an exclusion property and an interchange interaction between particle species. These models serve as possible representatives of families of automorphically equivalent gapped quantum spin-1 systems on $mathbb{Z}^d$. The main result is that the two-species PVBS Hamiltonians have a positive spectral gap when gapped on both of the single-species subspaces and are gapless if gapless on either single-species subspace. The addition of a new particle species does not create any new gapless phases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04755

zbMATH Keywords

spectral gapquantum spin systemsmulti-dimensionalfrustration-free

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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