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The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem dictates that emergent low-energy states from a lattice model cannot be a trivial symmetric insulator if the filling per unit cell is not integral and if the lattice translation symmetry and particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Gil Young Cho , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Shinsei Ryu

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem and its descendants impose strong constraints on the low-energy behavior of interacting quantum systems. In this paper, we formulate LSM-type constraints for lattice translation invariant systems with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-05 Huan He , Yizhi You , Abhinav Prem

We perform an exact diagonalization study of the topological order in topological flat band models through calculating entanglement entropy and spectra of low energy states. We identify multiple independent minimal entangled states, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-20 W. Zhu , D. N. Sheng , F. D. M. Haldane

For a large class of finite-range quantum spin models with half-integer spins, we prove that uniqueness of the ground state implies the existence of a low-lying excited state. For systems of linear size L, of arbitrary finite dimension, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-27 Bruno Nachtergaele , Robert Sims

We present a comprehensive analysis of the emerging order and chaos and enduring symmetries, accompanying a generic (high-barrier) first-order quantum phase transition (QPT). The interacting boson model Hamiltonian employed, describes a QPT…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-01 M. Macek , A. Leviatan

For the frustrated two-dimensional $S=1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model close to quantum phase transition we consider the singlet ground states retaining both translational and SU(2) symmetry. Besides usually discussed checkerboard,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Mikheyenkov , N. A. Kozlov , A. F. Barabanov

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem and its higher-dimensional extensions forbid the existence of a unique, symmetric, and gapped ground state at fractional fillings in quantum many-body systems with a conserved particle number (or spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-18 G. Shankar , Joseph Maciejko

Certain pure-state symmetry-protected topological orders (SPT) can be used as a resource for transmitting quantum information. Here, we investigate the ability to transmit quantum information using decohered SPT states, and relate this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Zhehao Zhang , Utkarsh Agrawal , Sagar Vijay

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT), or topological holography, offers a unifying framework for describing quantum phases of matter and phase transitions between them. While this approach has seen remarkable success in describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Marvin Qi , Ramanjit Sohal , Xie Chen , David T. Stephen , Abhinav Prem

We prove a trade-off theorem for order and disorder parameters in one-dimensional quantum spin systems with quenched disorder. For a disordered ensemble with exact Ising symmetry and average translation symmetry, any gapped ensemble must…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-29 Jinmin Yi , Chong Wang

Topological phases of matter offer a promising platform for quantum computation and quantum error correction. Nevertheless, unlike its counterpart in pure states, descriptions of topological order in mixed states remain relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Zhuan Li , Roger S. K. Mong

Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) anomalies are powerful symmetry-based constraints on the correlation, entanglement and dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In this review, we discuss various LSM anomalies and anomaly matching. We start with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-30 Liujun Zou , Meng Cheng

We develop a general framework for studying phases of mixed states with strong and weak symmetries, including non-invertible or categorical symmetries. The central idea is to consider a purification of the mixed state density matrix, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Apoorv Tiwari , Alison Warman , Carolyn Zhang

We extend the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT) framework to open quantum systems. Using canonical purification, we embed mixed states into a doubled (2+1)-dimensional topological order and employ the slab construction to study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-09 Ran Luo , Yi-Nan Wang , Zhen Bi

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases are many-body quantum states that are topologically nontrivial as long as the relevant symmetries are unbroken. In this work we show that SPT phases are also well defined for average symmetries,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-25 Ruochen Ma , Chong Wang

Topological phase transitions challenge conventional paradigms in many-body physics by separating phases that are locally indistinguishable yet globally distinct. Using a quantum simulator of interacting erbium atoms in an optical lattice,…

We study the geometric Uhlmann phase of entangled mixed states in a composite system made of two coupled spin-$\frac 1 2$ particles with a magnetic field acting on one of them. Within a depolarizing channel setup, an exact analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 J. Villavicencio , E. Cota , F. Rojas , J. A. Maytorena , D. Morachis Galindo

One of the most striking features of quantum phases that exhibit topological order is the presence of long range entanglement that cannot be detected by any local order parameter. The formalism of projected entangled-pair states is a…

Topologically ordered systems in the presence of symmetries can exhibit new structures which are referred to as symmetry enriched topological (SET) phases. We introduce simple methods to detect the SET order directly from a complete set of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-06 Ching-Yu Huang , Xie Chen , Frank Pollmann

A large number of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases have been hypothesized for strongly interacting spin-1/2 systems in one dimension. Realizing these SPT phases, however, often demands fine-tunings hard to reach experimentally.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-21 Haiyuan Zou , Erhai Zhao , Xi-Wen Guan , W. Vincent Liu