Regensburg 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 59: Low-Dimensional Systems: Poster Session
TT 59.12: Poster
Mittwoch, 9. März 2016, 15:00–18:30, Poster D
Trivial and topological phases protected by symmetries in spin-2 quantum chains — •Augustine Kshetrimayum1, Hong-Hao Tu2, and Román Orús1 — 1Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
Symmetry-protected trivial (SPt) phases of matter are the productstate analogue of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. This means, SPt phases can be adiabatically connected to a product state by some path that preserves the protecting symmetry. Moreover, SPt and SPT phases can be adiabatically connected to each other when interaction terms that break the symmetries protecting the SPT order are added in the Hamiltonian. It is also known that spin-1 SPT phases in quantum spin chains can emerge as effective intermediate phases of spin-2 Hamiltonians. In this work, we show that a similar scenario is also valid for SPt phases. More precisely, we show that for a given spin-2 quantum chain, effective intermediate spin-1 SPt phases emerge in some regions of the phase diagram, these also being adiabatically connected to non-trivial intermediate SPT phases. We characterize the phase diagram of our model by studying quantities such as the entanglement entropy, symmetry-related order parameters, and 1-site fidelities. Moreover, we provide a field theory description of the quantum phase transitions between the SPt phases.