Symmetry protected topological phases in spin-1 ladders and their phase transitions

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.08.025MaRDI QIDQ738237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ji-Yao Chen, Zhengxin Liu

Publication date 2 September 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05835

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsymmetry protected topological phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We study two-legged spin-1 ladder systems with $D_{2}imessigma$ symmetry group, where $D_2$ is discrete spin rotational symmetry and $sigma$ means interchain reflection symmetry. The system has one trivial phase and seven nontrivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases. We construct Hamiltonians to realize all of these SPT phases and study the phase transitions between them. Our numerical results indicate that there is no direct continuous transition between any two SPT phases we studied. We interpret our results via topological nonlinear sigma model effective field theory, and further conjecture that generally there is no direct continuous transition between two SPT phases in one dimension if the symmetry group is discrete at all length scales.

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