Topological domain-wall pump with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spontaneous symmetry breaking
Abstract
A domain-wall pump by an extended cluster model of spins is proposed with local gauge invariance. Its snapshot ground state is gapped and doubly degenerated due to invariance, which is broken by an infinitesimal boundary magnetic field. The ground state associated with the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is still symmetry-protected with additional spatial inversion that is characterized by the Berry phase. We investigate the topological domain-wall pump with/without boundaries. The topological pump associated with the inversion symmetry-breaking path induces a non-trivial Chern number of bulk and a singular behavior of edge states of the domain-wall. Generalization to the multi-spin interaction is also explicitly given.
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@article{arxiv.2411.17219,
title = {Topological domain-wall pump with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spontaneous symmetry breaking},
author = {Yoshihito Kuno and Yasuhiro Hatsugai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17219},
year = {2024}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure