Towards a complete classification of 1D gapped quantum phases in interacting spin systems

Details Towards a complete classification of 1D gapped quantum phases in interacting spin systems Towards a complete classification of 1D gapped quantum phases in interacting spin systems

2011-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3323v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

Quantum phases with different orders exist with or without breaking the symmetry of the system. Recently, a classification of gapped quantum phases which do not break time reversal, parity or on-site unitary symmetry has been given for 1D spin systems in [X. Chen, Z.-C. Gu, and X.-G. Wen, Phys. Rev. B 83, 035107 (2011); arXiv:1008.3745]. It was found that, such symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are labeled by the projective representations of the symmetry group which can be viewed as a symmetry fractionalization. In this paper, we extend the classification of 1D gapped phases by considering SPT phases with combined time reversal, parity, and/or on-site unitary symmetries and also considering the possibility of symmetry breaking. In this way, we obtain a complete classification of gapped quantum phases in 1D spin systems. We find that in general, symmetry fractionalization, symmetry breaking and long range entanglement(present in 2 or higher dimensions) represent three main mechanisms to generate a very rich set of gapped quantum phases. As an application of our classification, we study the possible SPT phases in 1D fermionic systems, which can be mapped to spin systems by Jordan-Wigner transformation.

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