The 1D Ising model and the topological phase of the Kitaev chain

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.08.013MaRDI QIDQ527693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Martin Greiter, Vera Schnells, Ronny Thomale

Publication date 12 May 2017

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5262

zbMATH Keywords

Ising modelorder parametertopological orderKitaev wireP-wave superconductorsymmetry protected topological phases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We elaborate on the topological order in the Kitaev chain, a p-wave superconductor with nearest-neighbor pairing amplitude equal to the hopping term Delta=t, and chemical potential mu=0. In particular, we write out the explicit eigenstates of the open chain in terms of fermion operators, and show that the states as well as their energy eigenvalues are formally equivalent to those of an Ising chain. The models are physically different, as the topological order in the Kitaev chain corresponds to conventional order in the Ising model.

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