Critical theories of phase transition between symmetry protected topological states and their relation to the gapless boundary theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2013.04.015MaRDI QIDQ2438176zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xie Chen, Fa Wang, Yuan-Ming Lu, Dung-Hai Lee

Publication date 10 March 2014

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3121

zbMATH Keywords

critical theorysymmetry protected topological statesgapless edge state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: Symmetry protected topological states (SPTs) have the same symmetry and the phase transition between them are beyond Landau's symmetry breaking formalism. In this paper we study (1) the critical theory of phase transition between trivial and non-trivial SPTs, and (2) the relation between such critical theory and the gapless boundary theory of SPTs. Based on examples of SO(3) and SU(2) SPTs, we propose that under appropriate boundary condition the critical theory contains the delocalized version of the boundary excitations. In addition, we prove that the boundary theory is the critical theory spatially confined between two SPTs. We expect these conclusions to hold in general and, in particular, for discrete symmetry groups as well.

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