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Topological domain-wall pump with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spontaneous symmetry breaking

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-11-27 v1 Quantum Gases Quantum Physics

Abstract

A domain-wall pump by an extended cluster model of S=1/2S=1/2 spins is proposed with local U(1)U(1) gauge invariance. Its snapshot ground state is gapped and doubly degenerated due to Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 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 Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 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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