Chiral Floquet systems and quantum walks at half-period

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-00982-6MaRDI QIDQ2223554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. Geib, Reinhard F. Werner, C. Cedzich, Albert H. Werner

Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04634

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We classify chiral symmetric periodically driven quantum systems on a one-dimensional lattice. The driving process is local, can be continuous or discrete in time, and we assume a gap condition for the corresponding Floquet operator. The analysis is in terms of the unitary operator at a half-period, the half-step operator. We give a complete classification of the connected classes of half-step operators in terms of five integer indices. On the basis of these indices it can be decided whether the half-step operator can be obtained from a continuous Hamiltonian driving, or not. The half-step operator determines two Floquet operators, obtained by starting the driving at zero or at half period, respectively. These are called timeframes and are chiral symmetric quantum walks. Conversely, we show under which conditions two chiral symmetric walks determine a common half-step operator. Moreover, we clarify the connection between the classification of half-step operators and the corresponding quantum walks. Within this theory we prove bulk-edge correspondence and show that a second timeframe allows to distinguish between symmetry protected edge states at $+1$ and $-1$ which is not possible for a single timeframe.

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