Disorder operators and their descendants

DOI10.1007/S10955-017-1737-7zbMATH Open1375.82052arXiv1610.05780OpenAlexW2538809132WikidataQ60432776 ScholiaQ60432776MaRDI QIDQ2401445FDOQ2401445

Authors: Eduardo Fradkin 

Publication date: 8 September 2017

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

Abstract: I review the concept of a {em disorder operator}, introduced originally by Kadanoff in the context of the two-dimensional Ising model. Disorder operators acquire an expectation value in the disordered phase of the classical spin system. This concept has had applications and implications to many areas of physics ranging from quantum spin chains to gauge theories to topological phases of matter. In this paper I describe the role that disorder operators play in our understanding of ordered, disordered and topological phases of matter. The role of disorder operators, and their generalizations, and their connection with dualities in different systems, as well as with Majorana fermions and parafermions, is discussed in detail. Their role in recent fermion-boson and boson-boson dualities is briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05780

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zbMATH Keywords

critical phenomenaquantum spin chainsIsing modelstopological phases of matterduality transformationsdisorder operatorsIsing gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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