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Subsystem Ginzburg-Landau and symmetry-protected topological order coexisting on a graph

  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Korea University

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Abstract

We write down and analyze a model demonstrating the co-existence of conventional symmetry-breaking order and symmetry-protected topological (SPT) order in the one-dimensional chain. When appropriately generalized to a model on a graph, the SPT and symmetry-breaking orders exist for each individual loop, or cycle, of the graph. It arises as a consequence of the kind of "global"symmetry operator responsible for SPT and the local-order parameter defining the Ginzburg-Landau order, both of which exist in our model and commute with the Hamiltonian. The anti-commuting character of these two-order parameters is responsible for the ground state degeneracy (GSD). As such operators and their anti-commuting relations can be defined for each independent loop, the GSD grows exponentially with the first Betti number for a graph.

Original languageEnglish
Article number195124
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume103
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 May 2021

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