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Gapped phases of noninteracting fermions, with and without charge conservation and time-reversal symmetry, are classified using Bott periodicity. The symmetry and spatial dimension determines a general universality class, which corresponds…

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Topological phases of matter possess intricate correlation patterns typically probed by entanglement entropies or entanglement spectra. In this work, we propose an alternative approach to assessing topologically induced edge states in free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-06 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Jens Eisert , Mauro Cirio , Ville Lahtinen , Jiannis K. Pachos

The tenfold way is a classification scheme for the building blocks of free fermion systems. More precisely, it classifies the isomorphism classes of spaces of equivariant free Hamiltonians in irreducible fermion systems with symmetries.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Lucas C. P. A. M. Müssnich , Renato Vasconcellos Vieira

Dissipation in open systems enriches the possible symmetries of the Hamiltonians beyond the Hermitian framework allowing the possibility of novel non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit long-living end states that are protected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wojciech Brzezicki , Matti Silveri , Marcin Płodzień , Francesco Massel , Timo Hyart

We study the properties of the entanglement spectrum in gapped non-interacting non-Hermitian systems, and its relation to the topological properties of the system Hamiltonian. Two different families of entanglement Hamiltonians can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Loïc Herviou , Nicolas Regnault , Jens H. Bardarson

We study dissipative translationally invariant free-fermionic theories with quadratic Liouvillians. Using a Lie-algebraic approach, we solve the Lindblad equation and find the density matrix at all times for arbitrary time dependence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 L. R. Bakker , V. I. Yashin , D. V. Kurlov , A. K. Fedorov , V. Gritsev

The celebrated tenfold-way of Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes discern any quantum system by its pattern of non-spatial symmetries. It lays at the core of the periodic table of topological insulators and superconductors which provided a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Eyal Cornfeld , Shachar Carmeli

We address the breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence observed in non-Hermitian systems, where open and periodic systems can have distinct phase diagrams. The correspondence can be completely restored by considering the Hamiltonian's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Loic Herviou , Jens H. Bardarson , Nicolas Regnault

We provide a systematic treatment of the tenfold way of classifying fermionic systems that naturally allows for the study of those with arbitrary $N$-body interactions. We identify four types of symmetries that such systems can possess,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Adhip Agarwala , Arijit Haldar , Vijay B. Shenoy

The low energy behavior of a huge variety of one-dimensional interacting spinful fermionic systems exhibits spin-charge separation, described in the continuum limit by two sine-Gordon models decoupled in the charge and spin channels.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-02 Arianna Montorsi , Fabrizio Dolcini , Rita Iotti , Fausto Rossi

The Lindblad equation is commonly used for studying quantum dynamics in open systems that cannot be completely isolated from an environment, relevant to a broad variety of research fields, such as atomic physics, materials science, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Zhu Ruan , Roi Baer

Ladder architectures are fruitful systems to realize topological phases of matter. Here we present a classification of ladder models giving rise to topological insulators. We identify six different types of topological ladder models, three…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-29 Carlos G. Velasco , Belén Paredes

Using bulk gapless topological superconductors in both 1d and 2d as free fermion model examples, we demonstrate the power of subsystem correlation spectrum (the spectrum of correlation matrix), or equivalently the entanglement spectrum for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-16 Archi Banerjee , Meng Zeng

The effect of interactions on topological insulators and superconductors remains, to a large extent, an open problem. Here, we describe a framework for classifying phases of one-dimensional interacting fermions, focusing on spinless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-20 Ari M. Turner , Frank Pollmann , Erez Berg

Topological order offers possibilities for processing quantum information which can be immune to imperfections. However, the question of its stability out of equilibrium is relevant for experiments, where coupling to an environment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Dawid Paszko , Dominic C. Rose , Marzena H. Szymańska , Arijeet Pal

This paper proposes a quantitative description of the low energy edge states at the interface between two-dimensional topological insulators. They are modeled by continuous Hamiltonians as systems of Dirac equations that are amenable to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Guillaume Bal

Recently, it has been proposed that exotic one-dimensional phases can be realized by gapping out the edge states of a fractional topological insulator. The low-energy edge degrees of freedom are described by a chain of coupled parafermions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-11 Johannes Motruk , Ari M. Turner , Erez Berg , Frank Pollmann

If an open quantum system is initially uncorrelated from its environment, then its dynamics can be written in terms of a Lindblad-form master equation. The master equation is divided into a unitary piece, represented by an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Patrick Hayden , Jonathan Sorce

We present an alternative form of master equation, applicable on the analysis of non-equilibrium dynamics of fermionic open quantum systems. The formalism considers a general scenario, composed by a multipartite quantum system in contact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Fabrício M. Souza , L. Sanz

We derive exact results for the Lindblad equation for a quantum spin chain (one-dimensional quantum compass model) with dephasing noise. The system possesses doubly degenerate nonequilibrium steady states due to the presence of a conserved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-18 Naoyuki Shibata , Hosho Katsura