Entropy, gap and a multi-parameter deformation of the fredkin spin chain

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DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA866EzbMATH Open1375.82027arXiv1702.03581OpenAlexW3105070948MaRDI QIDQ4595433FDOQ4595433

Zhao Zhang, Israel Klich

Publication date: 30 November 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a multi-parameter deformation of the Fredkin spin 1/2 chain whose ground state is a weighted superposition of Dyck paths, depending on a set of parameters ti along the chain. The parameters are introduced in such a way to maintain the system frustration-free while allowing to explore a range of possible phases. In the case where the parameters are uniform, and a color degree of freedom is added we establish a phase diagram with a transition between an area law and a volume low. The volume entropy obtained for half a chain is nlogs where n is the half-chain length and s is the number of colors. Next, we prove an upper bound on the spectral gap of the t>1,s>1 phase, scaling as Delta=O((4s)ntn2/2), similar to a recent a result about the deformed Motzkin model, albeit derived in a different way. Finally, using an additional variational argument we prove an exponential lower bound on the gap of the model for t>1,s=1, which provides an example of a system with bounded entanglement entropy and a vanishing spectral gap.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.03581




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