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A classification of phases of bosonic quantum lattice systems in one dimension

Quantum Physics 2021-12-10 v6 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study invertible states of 1d bosonic quantum lattice systems. We show that every invertible 1d state is in a trivial phase: after tensoring with some unentangled ancillas it can be disentangled by a fuzzy analog of a finite-depth quantum circuit. If an invertible state has symmetries, it may be impossible to disentangle it in a way that preserves the symmetries, even after adding unentagled ancillas. We show that in the case of a finite unitary symmetry G the only obstruction is an index valued in degree-2 cohomology of GG. We show that two invertible GG-invariant states are in the same phase if and only if their indices coincide.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15491,
  title  = {A classification of phases of bosonic quantum lattice systems in one dimension},
  author = {Anton Kapustin and Nikita Sopenko and Bowen Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15491},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Errors in the proofs of Lemma 4.5 and Theorem 1 have been corrected. The new version also includes an appendix on a multiplicative version of the Lieb-Robinson bound