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Strong zero modes and eigenstate phase transitions in the XYZ/interacting Majorana chain

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/49/30/30LT01

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zero modes; Majorana; eigenstate phase transition

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  1. National Science Foundation [PHY11-25915]
  2. EPSRC [EP/N01930X/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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I explicitly construct a strong zero mode in the XYZ chain or, equivalently, Majorana wires coupled via a four-fermion interaction. The strong zero mode is an operator that pairs states in different symmetry sectors, resulting in identical spectra up to exponentially small finite-size corrections. Such pairing occurs in the Ising/Majorana fermion chain and possibly in strongly disordered many-body localized phases. The proof here shows that the strong zero mode occurs in a clean interacting system, and that it possesses some remarkable structure-despite being a rather elaborate operator, it squares to the identity. Eigenstate phase transitions separate regions with different strong zero modes.

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