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We construct exact strong zero mode operators (ESZM) in integrable quantum circuits and the spin-1/2 XXZ chain for general open boundary conditions, which break the bulk U(1) symmetry of the time evolution operators. We show that the ESZM…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sascha Gehrmann , Fabian H. L. Essler

Strong zero modes (SZMs) are edge-localized operators that commute with the Hamiltonian up to corrections exponentially small in system size, yielding anomalously long edge coherence times. In some settings, notably certain integrable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sascha Gehrmann

Strong zero modes (SZMs) are conserved operators localised at the edges of certain quantum spin chains, which give rise to long coherence times of edge spins. Here we define and analyse analogous operators in one-dimensional classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Katja Klobas , Paul Fendley , Juan P. Garrahan

It is a classic result that certain interacting integrable spin chains host robust edge modes known as strong zero modes (SZMs). In this work, we extend this result to the Floquet setting of local quantum circuits, focusing on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-06 Eric Vernier , Hsiu-Chung Yeh , Lorenzo Piroli , Aditi Mitra

I explicitly construct a strong zero mode in the XYZ chain or, equivalently, Majorana wires coupled via a four-fermion interaction. The strong zero mode is an operator that pairs states in different symmetry sectors, resulting in identical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-19 Paul Fendley

A novel Bethe ansatz scheme is proposed to investigate the exact physical properties of an integrable anisotropic quantum spin chain with competing interactions among the nearest, next nearest neighbor and chiral three spin couplings, where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Wei Wang , Yi Qiao , Junpeng Cao , Wu-Ming Liu , Rong-Hua Liu

A novel Bethe Ansatz scheme is proposed to calculate physical properties of quantum integrable systems without $U(1)$ symmetry. As an example, the anti-periodic XXZ spin chain, a typical correlated many-body system embedded in a topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Yi Qiao , Pei Sun , Junpeng Cao , Wen-Li Yang , Kangjie Shi , Yupeng Wang

Strong Zero Modes (SZMs) are (approximately) conserved quantities that result in (approximate) double degeneracies in the entire spectra of certain Hamiltonians, with the Majorana zero mode of the transverse-field Ising chain being a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sanjay Moudgalya , Olexei I. Motrunich

We consider the non-equilibrium evolution in the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg chain for fixed magnetization after a local quantum quench. This model is equivalent to interacting spinless fermions. Initially an infinite magnetic field is applied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-20 Martin Ganahl , Elias Rabel , Fabian H. L. Essler , Hans Gerd Evertz

We show that a gapped spin-$S$ chain with antiferromagnetic (AFM) order exhibits in the thermodynamic limit exponentially localized fractional $\pm \frac{S}{2}$ edge modes when the system possesses U(1) symmetry. We show this for integrable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-05 Pradip Kattel , Yicheng Tang , J. H. Pixley , Natan Andrei

We show that in certain one-dimensional spin chains with open boundary conditions, the edge spins retain memory of their initial state for very long times. The long coherence times do not require disorder, only an ordered phase. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jack Kemp , Norman Y. Yao , Christopher R. Laumann , Paul Fendley

Strong zero modes are edge-localized degrees of freedom capable of storing information at infinite temperature, even in systems with no disorder. To date, their stability has only been systematically explored at the physical edge of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Christopher T. Olund , Norman Y. Yao , Jack Kemp

Exact diagonalization of finite spin-1/2 chains with periodic boundary conditions is applied to the ground state (gs) of chains with ferromagnetic (F) exchange $J_1 < 0$between first neighbors, antiferromagnetic (AF) exchange $J_2 = \alpha…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Manoranjan Kumar , Zoltán G. Soos

The open spin-1/2 XXZ spin chain with diagonal boundary magnetic fields is the paradigmatic example of a quantum integrable model with open boundary conditions. We formulate a quantum algorithm for preparing Bethe states of this model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 John S. Van Dyke , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou , Rafael I. Nepomechie

Interacting fermionic chains exhibit extended regions of topological degeneracy of their ground states as a result of the presence of Majorana or parafermionic zero modes localized at the edges. In the opposite limit of infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-29 Niklas Tausendpfund , Aditi Mitra , Matteo Rizzi

We investigate entanglement properties of the excited states of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg (XXX) chain with isotropic antiferromagnetic interactions, by exploiting the Bethe ansatz solution of the model. We consider eigenstates obtained from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 Jan Mölter , Thomas Barthel , Ulrich Schollwöck , Vincenzo Alba

Spin-orbit coupling in solids describes an interaction between an electron's spin, an internal quantum-mechanical degree of freedom, with its linear momentum, an external property. Spin-orbit interaction, due to its relativistic nature, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 J. Shabani , Younghyun Kim , A. P. McFadden , R. M. Lutchyn , C. Nayak , C. J. palmstrøm

We study the emergence of exact Majorana zero modes (EMZMs) in a one-dimensional quantum transverse compass model with both the nearest-neighbor interactions and transverse fields varying over space. By transforming the spin system into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Ning Wu , Wen-Long You

We study S=1/2 quantum spin chains with shift-invariant and inversion-symmetric next-nearest-neighbor interaction, also known as zigzag spin chains. We completely classify the integrability and non-integrability of the above class of spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Naoto Shiraishi

The sigma models on projective superspaces CP^{N+M-1|N} with topological angle theta=pi mod 2pi flow to non-unitary, logarithmic conformal field theories in the low-energy limit. In this paper, we determine the exact spectrum of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 Roberto Bondesan , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur
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