Energy gap of neutral excitations implies vanishing charge susceptibility
Abstract
In quantum many-body systems with a U(1) symmetry, such as the particle number conservation and the axial spin conservation, there are two distinct types of excitations: charge-neutral excitations and charged excitations. The energy gaps of these excitations may be independent with each other in strongly correlated systems. The static susceptibility of the U(1) charge vanishes when the charged excitations are all gapped, but its relation to the neutral excitations is not obvious. Here we show that a finite excitation gap of the neutral excitations is, in fact, sufficient to prove that the charge susceptibility vanishes (i.e. the system is incompressible). This result gives a partial explanation on why the celebrated quantization condition at magnetization plateaus works even in spatial dimensions greater than one.
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@article{arxiv.1609.09543,
title = {Energy gap of neutral excitations implies vanishing charge susceptibility},
author = {Haruki Watanabe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09543},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures; v3: minor revision, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett