Parafermionic edge zero modes in Z_n-invariant spin chains

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2012/11/P11020zbMATH Open1456.82125arXiv1209.0472OpenAlexW3121302533MaRDI QIDQ3301302FDOQ3301302

Paul Fendley

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A sign of topological order in a gapped one-dimensional quantum chain is the existence of edge zero modes. These occur in the Z_2-invariant Ising/Majorana chain, where they can be understood using free-fermion techniques. Here I discuss their presence in spin chains with Z_n symmetry, and prove that for appropriate coupling they are exact, even in this strongly interacting system. These modes are naturally expressed in terms of parafermions, generalizations of fermions to the Z_n case. I show that parafermionic edge zero modes do not occur in the usual ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic cases, but rather only when the interactions are chiral, so that spatial-parity and time-reversal symmetries are broken.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0472

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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