Product vacua with boundary states and the classification of gapped phases

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2025-XzbMATH Open1296.82020arXiv1212.3718OpenAlexW3101303084MaRDI QIDQ2249755FDOQ2249755

Authors: S. Bachmann, Bruno Nachtergaele 

Publication date: 3 July 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the question of the classification of gapped ground states in one dimension that cannot be distinguished by a local order parameter. We introduce a family of quantum spin systems on the one-dimensional chain that have a unique gapped ground state in the thermodynamic limit that is a simple product state but which on the left and right half-infinite chains, have additional zero energy edge states. The models, which we call Product Vacua with Boundary States (PVBS), form phases that depend only on two integers corresponding to the number of edge states at each boundary. They can serve as representatives of equivalence classes of such gapped ground states phases and we show how the AKLT model and its $SO(2J+1)$-invariant generalizations fit into this classification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3718

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum spin chainsLieb-Robinson boundnearest neighbor interactionAffleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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