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In this paper, we introduce a variation of the notion of topological phase reflecting metric structure of the position space. This framework contains not only periodic and non-periodic systems with symmetries in Kitaev's periodic table but…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Yosuke Kubota

We have studied the anti-ferromagnetic Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice under the Zeeman field, using an extensive Majorana mean-field analysis. When the magnetic field is along a specific Cartesian axis, we find that the emergent fields…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Sheikh Moonsun Pervez

In this work, we analyze the nonsymmorphic symmetry group structures for a variety of generalized Kitaev spin chains and ladders with bond alternations, including Kitaev-Gamma chain, Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma chain, beyond nearest neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-24 Wang Yang , Alberto Nocera , Paul Herringer , Robert Raussendorf , Ian Affleck

We study the Kitaev chain under generalized twisted boundary conditions, for which both the amplitudes and the phases of the boundary couplings can be tuned at will. We explicitly show the presence of exact zero modes for large chains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 Kohei Kawabata , Ryohei Kobayashi , Ning Wu , Hosho Katsura

Recently there is trend to study topological properties in one-dimensional(1D) periodic systems. Concepts such as Zak phase are considered as topological invariants that characterize the bulk bands. The bulk 1D systems are classified to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-14 Yi-Dong Wu

We develop a microscopic theory for the two-dimensional spectroscopy of one-dimensional topological superconductors. We consider a ring geometry as a realization of the Kitaev chain with periodic boundary conditions. We show numerically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Felix Gerken , Thore Posske , Shaul Mukamel , Michael Thorwart

We propose and analyze a generalization of the Kitaev chain for fermions with long-range $p$-wave pairing, which decays with distance as a power-law with exponent $\alpha$. Using the integrability of the model, we demonstrate the existence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Davide Vodola , Luca Lepori , Elisa Ercolessi , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Guido Pupillo

Topological edge states arise in parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric non-unitary quantum dynamics but have so far only been discussed in the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry-unbroken regime. Here we report the experimental detection of robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Lei Xiao , Xingze Qiu , Kunkun Wang , Barry C. Sanders , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

Motivated by recent experimental realizations of topological edge states in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains, we theoretically study a ladder system whose legs are comprised of two such chains. We show that the ladder hosts a rich phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Karmela Padavić , Suraj S Hegde , Wade DeGottardi , Smitha Vishveshwara

In the present work we propose that two-time correlations of Majorana edge localized fermions constitute a novel and versatile toolbox for assessing the topological phases of 1D open lattices. Using analytical and numerical calculations on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-25 F. J. Gomez-Ruiz , J. J. Mendoza-Arenas , F. J. Rodriguez , C. Tejedor , L. Quiroga

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases in insulators and superconductors are known for their robust edge modes, linked to bulk invariants through the bulk-boundary correspondence. While this principle traditionally applies to gapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-06 Gabriel Cardoso , Hsiu-Chung Yeh , Leonid Korneev , Alexander G. Abanov , Aditi Mitra

We study Majorana chain with the shortest possible interaction term and in the presence of hoping alternation. When formulated in terms of spins the model corresponds to the transverse field Ising model with nearest-neighbor transverse and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-14 Natalia Chepiga , Nicolas Laflorencie

A decomposition of the non-equilibrium stationary state of a quadratic Fermi system influenced by linear baths is obtained and used to establish a simulation protocol in terms of tensor states. The scheme is then applied to examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 Jose Reslen

We investigate the nature of the topological phase transition of the antiferromagnetic Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of a magnetic field along the [111] direction. The field opens a topological gap in the Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 S. Thiagarajan , C. Watson , T. Yzeiri , H. Hu , B. Uchoa , F. Krüger

We numerically study the quantum phase transitions and the stability of Majorana zero modes in a generalized Kitaev model in one dimension when the chemical potential is periodically modulating in space. By using the exact diagonalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-17 Takumi Ohta , Keisuke Totsuka

We investigate the resilience of symmetry-protected topological edge states at the boundaries of Kitaev chains in the presence of a bath which explicitly introduces symmetry-breaking terms. Specifically, we focus on single-particle losses…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-11 Alexander Carmele , Markus Heyl , Christina Kraus , Marcello Dalmonte

We investigate the quantum phases of higher-spin Kitaev models using tensor network methods. Our results reveal distinct bond-ordered phases for spin-1, spin-$\tfrac{3}{2}$, and spin-2 models. In all cases, we find translational symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 Xing-Yu Zhang , Qi Yang , Philippe Corboz , Jutho Haegeman , Yuchi He

A number of recent works have argued that quantum complexity, a well-known concept in computer science that has re-emerged recently in the context of the physics of black holes, may be used as an efficient probe of novel phenomena such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Pawel Caputa , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Sinong Liu , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We study quantum phase transitions in the honeycomb Kitaev model under a magnetic field, focusing on the topological nature of Majorana fermion excitations. We find a gapless phase between the low-field gapless quantum spin liquid and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Joji Nasu , Yasuyuki Kato , Yoshitomo Kamiya , Yukitoshi Motome

We investigate the von Neumann entanglement entropy and Schmidt gap in the ground state of the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice for square and cylindrical subsystems. We find that, for both the subsystems, the free-fermionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-26 Saptarshi Mandal , Moitri Maiti , Vipin Kerala Varma