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Resilience of the topological phases to frustration

izvorni znanstveni rad

izvorni znanstveni rad

Resilience of the topological phases to frustration

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Tip izvorni znanstveni rad
Godina 2021
Časopis Scientific reports
Volumen 11
Stranice 6508, 9
DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-86009-4
EISSN 2045-2322
Status objavljeno

Sažetak

Recently it was highlighted that one-dimensional antiferromagnetic spin models with frustrated boundary conditions, i.e. periodic boundary conditions in a ring with an odd number of elements, may show very peculiar behavior. Indeed the presence of frustrated boundary conditions can destroy the local magnetic orders presented by the models when different boundary conditions are taken into account and induce novel phase transitions. Motivated by these results, we analyze the effects of the introduction of frustrated boundary conditions on several models supporting (symmetry protected) topological orders, and compare our results with the ones obtained with different boundary conditions. None of the topological order phases analyzed are altered by this change. This observation leads naturally to the conjecture that topological phases of one-dimensional systems are in general not affected by topological frustration.

Ključne riječi

Quantum Spin Chains; Topological Order; Frustration