Topological versus Landau-like phase transitions
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2015-11-25 v1
Abstract
The study of continuous phase transitions triggered by spontaneous symmetry breaking has brought new concepts that revolutionized the way we understand many-body systems. Recently, through the discovery of symmetry protected topological phases, it is realized that quantum phase transition between states with the same symmetry but different topology can also occur continuously. Here we ask "what distinguishes these two types of phase transitions".
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.07460,
title = {Topological versus Landau-like phase transitions},
author = {Lokman Tsui and Fa Wang and Dung-Hai Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07460},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures