English
Related papers

Related papers: Free fermions behind the disguise

200 papers

We show that a quantum spin system has an exact description by non-interacting fermions if its frustration graph is claw-free and contains a simplicial clique. The frustration graph of a spin model captures the pairwise anticommutation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Adrian Chapman , Samuel J. Elman , Ryan L. Mann

We study quantum spin chains solvable via hidden free fermionic structures. We study the algebras behind such models, establishing connections to the mathematical literature of the so-called ``graph-Clifford'' or ``quasi-Clifford''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kohei Fukai , Balázs Pozsgay , István Vona

We consider quantum error-correcting subsystem codes whose gauge generators realize a translation-invariant, free-fermion-solvable spin model. In this setting, errors are suppressed by a Hamiltonian whose terms are the gauge generators of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Adrian Chapman , Steven T. Flammia , Alicia J. Kollár

Recently, several spin chain models have been discovered that admit solutions in terms of "free fermions in disguise." A graph-theoretical treatment of such models was also established, giving sufficient conditions for free fermionic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-11 Kohei Fukai , István Vona , Balázs Pozsgay

Recently, a class of spin chains known as ``free fermions in disguise'' (FFD) has been discovered, which possess hidden free-fermion spectra even though they are not solvable via the standard Jordan-Wigner transformation. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kohei Fukai , Hironobu Yoshida , Hosho Katsura

Free fermions in disguise (FFD) Hamiltonians describe spin chains which can be mapped to free fermions, but not via a Jordan-Wigner transformation. Although the mapping gives access to the full Hamiltonian spectrum, the computation of spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Eric Vernier , Lorenzo Piroli

Exactly solvable models are essential in physics. For many-body spin-1/2 systems, an important class of such models consists of those that can be mapped to free fermions hopping on a graph. We provide a complete characterization of models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Adrian Chapman , Steven T. Flammia

The Jordan-Wigner transformation is frequently utilised to rewrite quantum spin chains in terms of fermionic operators. When the resulting Hamiltonian is bilinear in these fermions, i.e. the fermions are free, the exact spectrum follows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-10 Paul Fendley , Balazs Pozsgay

We present a graph-theoretic characterisation of when a quantum spin model admits an exact solution via a mapping to free parafermions. Our characterisation is based on the concept of a frustration graph, which represents the commutation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Ryan L. Mann , Samuel J. Elman , David R. Wood , Adrian Chapman

We present a novel graph-theoretic approach to simplifying generic many-body Hamiltonians. Our primary result introduces a recursive twin-collapse algorithm, leveraging the identification and elimination of symmetric vertex pairs (twins),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jannis Ruh , Samuel J. Elman

Recently multiple families of spin chain models were found, which have a free fermionic spectrum,even though they are not solvable by a Jordan-Wigner transformation. Instead, the free fermions emerge as a result of a rather intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Balázs Pozsgay , Kohei Fukai

I solve a quantum chain whose Hamiltonian is comprised solely of local four-fermi operators by constructing free-fermion raising and lowering operators. The free-fermion operators are both non-local and highly non-linear in the local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Paul Fendley

Frustration-free Hamiltonians provide pivotal models for understanding quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we establish a general framework for frustration-free fermionic systems. First, we derive a necessary and sufficient condition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Rintaro Masaoka , Seishiro Ono , Hoi Chun Po , Haruki Watanabe

We consider quantum spin chains with a hidden free fermionic structure, distinct from the Jordan-Wigner transformation and its generalizations. We express selected local operators with the hidden fermions. This way we can exactly solve the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-14 István Vona , Márton Mestyán , Balázs Pozsgay

We provide a systematic construction for local quantum circuits hosting free fermions in disguise, both with staircase and brickwork architectures. Similar to the original Hamiltonian model introduced by Fendley, these circuits are defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Dávid Szász-Schagrin , Daniele Cristani , Lorenzo Piroli , Eric Vernier

Simulating noninteracting fermion systems is a common task in computational many-body physics. In absence of translational symmetries, modeling free fermions on $N$ modes usually requires poly$(N)$ computational resources. While often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Maarten Stroeks , Daan Lenterman , Barbara Terhal , Yaroslav Herasymenko

We consider the non-Hermitian XY spin chain with open boundary conditions when the anisotropy parameter is extended to complex values. By analyzing the quasi-Hamiltonian matrix, we demonstrate that the free-fermion structure of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yuguan Li , D. C. Liu , Murray T. Batchelor

We present a new technique for efficiently simulating (in polynomial time) a class of one-dimensional (1D) dissipative spin chains that, when mapped to fermions, have quadratic Hamiltonians, with the only nonlinearity coming from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Andrew Pocklington , Aashish A. Clerk

In this article we outline the historical development and key results obtained to date for free parafermionic spin chains. The concept of free parafermions provides a natural N-state generalization of free fermions, which have long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-28 Murray T. Batchelor , Robert A. Henry , Xilin Lu

We derive a rigorous, quantum mechanical map of fermionic creation and annihilation operators to continuous Cartesian variables that exactly reproduces the matrix structure of the many-fermion problem. We show how our scheme can be used to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Andrés Montoya-Castillo , Thomas E. Markland
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›