期刊
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
卷 -, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2012/11/P11020
关键词
spin chains; ladders and planes (theory); spin liquids (theory)
资金
- National Science Foundation [DMR/MPS1006549]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1006549] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
A sign of topological order in a gapped one-dimensional quantum chain is the existence of edge zero modes. These occur in the Z(2)-invariant Ising/Majorana chain, where they can be understood using free-fermion techniques. Here I discuss their presence in spin chains with Z(n) symmetry, and prove that for appropriate couplings they are exact, even in this strongly interacting system. These modes are naturally expressed in terms of parafermions, generalizations of fermions to the Z(n) case. I show that parafermionic edge zero modes do not occur in the usual ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic cases, but rather only when the interactions are chiral, so that spatial-parity and time-reversal symmetries are broken.
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