Many-body-localization induced protection of symmetry-protected topological order in a XXZ spin model

Ground-State Phase Diagram of the Bond-Alternating $S=2$ Quantum Spin Chain with the $XXZ$ and On-Site Anisotropies -- Symmetry Protected Topological Phase versus Trivial Phase

We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the bond-alternating $S=2$ quantum spin chain with the $XXZ$ and on-site anisotropies. For the on-site anisotropies, in addition to the popular $D_2 \sum_j (S_j^z)^2$ term, we consider the $D_4 \sum_j (S_j^z)^4$ term. Mainly we use the exact diagonalization and the level spectroscopy analysis. We show that the Haldane state, large-$D$ state and the Dimer2 state belong to the same trivial phase, by finding the existence of adiabatic paths directly connecting these states without the quantum phase transition. Similarly, we show that the intermedia…

XXZ自旋链的拓扑对偶是什么？

What is the topological dual of the XXZ spin Chain?

本研究针对传统用于研究自发对称性破缺的U(1)对称各向异性自旋1/2海森堡链，通过非局域幺正变换构建出局域费米子对偶SPT哈密顿量，证实其存在被卢廷格液体区分隔的两个非平凡拓扑相，并揭示了其拓扑特征。

Analytical results for the low-temperature Drude weight of the XXZ spin chain

The spin-$1/2$ XXZ chain is an integrable lattice model and parts of its spin current can be protected by local conservation laws for anisotropies $-1<Δ<1$. In this case, the Drude weight $D(T)$ is non-zero at finite temperatures $T$. Here we obtain analytical results for $D(T)$ at low temperatures for zero external magnetic field and anisotropies $Δ=\cos(nπ/m)$ with $n,m$ coprime integers, using the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz. We show that to leading orders $D(T)=D(0)-a(Δ)T^{2K-2}-b_1(Δ)T^2$ where $K$ is the Luttinger parameter and the prefactor $a(Δ)$, obtained in closed form, has a fractal …

Symmetry protection of topological order in one-dimensional quantum spin systems

We discuss the characterization and stability of the Haldane phase in integer spin chains on the basis of simple, physical arguments. We find that an odd-$S$ Haldane phase is a topologically non-trivial phase which is protected by any one of the following three global symmetries: (i) the dihedral group of $π$-rotations about $x,y$ and $z$ axes; (ii) time-reversal symmetry $S^{x,y,z} \rightarrow - S^{x,y,z}$; (iii) link inversion symmetry (reflection about a bond center), consistently with previous results [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{81}, 064439 (2010)]. On the other hand, an even-$S$ Haldane phase i…

Entanglement convertibility by sweeping through the quantum phases of the alternating bonds $XXZ$ chain

We study the entanglement structure and the topological edge states of the ground state of the spin-1/2 XXZ model with bond alternation. We employ parity-density matrix renormalization group with periodic boundary conditions. The finite-size scaling of Rényi entropies $S_2$ and $S_\infty$ are used to construct the phase diagram of the system. The phase diagram displays three possible phases: Haldane type (an example of symmetry protected topological ordered phases), Classical Dimer and Néel phases, the latter bounded by two continuous quantum phase transitions. The entanglement and non-localit…

Symmetry-protected coherent relaxation of open quantum systems

We compute the effect of Markovian bulk dephasing noise on the staggered magnetization of the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain, as the system evolves after a Néel quench. For sufficiently weak system-bath coupling, the unitary dynamics are found to be preserved up to a single exponential damping factor. This is a consequence of the interplay between $\mathbb{PT}$ symmetry and weak symmetries, which strengthens previous predictions for $\mathbb{PT}$-symmetric Liouvillian dynamics. Requirements are a non-degenerate $\mathbb{PT}$-symmetric generator of time evolution $\hat{\mathcal{L}}$, a weak pari…