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We study ordered states and topological excitations in a quasi-two-dimensional magnet, modeled by a square lattice with spins $s {=} 1$ at all sites, and the Hamiltonian with biquadratic exchange interaction between nearest neighbor sites.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-09 Julia Bernatska , Petro Holod

We apply a generalized version of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem to fermionic ladder systems to show the existence of a low-lying excited state (except for some special fillings). This can be regarded as a non-perturbative proof for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Gagliardini , Stephan Haas , T. M. Rice

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

In this paper we address the question of the existence of a spectral gap in a class of local Hamiltonians. These Hamiltonians have the following properties: their ground states are known exactly; all equal-time correlation functions of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-27 Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak , Kirill Shtengel

In one dimension, the exponential position operators introduced in a theory of polarization are identified with the twisting operators appearing in the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis argument, and their finite-size expectation values $z_L$ measure the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Nakamura , Johannes Voit

We study quantum many-body systems in the presence of an exotic antiunitary translation or inversion symmetry involving time reversal. Based on a symmetry-twisting method and spectrum robustness, we propose that a half-integer spin chain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-04 Yuan Yao , Linhao Li , Masaki Oshikawa , Chang-Tse Hsieh

Many-body spin systems represent a paradigmatic platform for the realization of emergent states of matter in a strongly interacting regime. Spin models are commonly studied in one-dimensional periodic chains, whose lattice constant is on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 J. L. Lado , Oded Zilberberg

We investigate a model for the regularly depleted two-leg spin ladder systems. By using Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem, it is rigorously shown that this model realizes massless excitations or, alternatively, a degenerate ground state, although…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Fukui , M. Sigrist , N. Kawakami

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem and its higher dimensional generalizations by Oshikawa and Hastings require that translationally invariant 2D spin systems with a half-integer spin per unit cell must either have a continuum of low energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Meng Cheng , Michael Zaletel , Maissam Barkeshli , Ashvin Vishwanath , Parsa Bonderson

In this work, the second paper of this series, we study the 2+1d version of a Hamiltonian model for topological phases based on higher lattice gauge theory. We construct the ribbon operators that produce the point-like excitations. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Joe Huxford , Steven H. Simon

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem dictates that a trivial symmetric insulator in lattice models is prohibited if lattice translation symmetry and $U(1)$ charge conservation are both preserved. In this paper, we generalize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-22 Ryohei Kobayashi , Ken Shiozaki , Yuta Kikuchi , Shinsei Ryu

We consider many-body quantum systems on a finite lattice, where the Hilbert space is the tensor product of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces associated with each site, and where the Hamiltonian of the system is a sum of local terms. We are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Matthew B. Hastings

We consider 2+1D lattice models of interacting bosons or spins, with both magnetic flux and fractional spin in the unit cell. We propose and prove a modified Lieb-Shultz Mattis (LSM) theorem in this setting, which applies even when the spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Xu Yang , Shenghan Jiang , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ying Ran

Linear electric circuits composed of inductors and capacitors can serve as analogues of tight-binding models that describe the electronic band structure of materials. This mapping provides a versatile approach for exploring topological…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-27 Araceli Gutiérrez-Llorente

The theorem of Lieb, Schultz and Mattis (LSM), which states that the S=1/2 XXZ spin chain has gapless or degenerate ground states, can be applied to broader models. Independently, Kolb considered the relation between the wave number $q$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-17 Kiyohide Nomura

We consider an electron model of superconductivity on a three-dimensional lattice where there are on-site attractive Hubbard interaction and long-range repulsive Coulomb interaction. It is claimed that fully gapped $s$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-24 Yasuhiro Tada

Entanglement constitutes one of the key concepts in quantum mechanics and serves as an indispensable tool in the understanding of quantum many-body systems. In this work, we perform extensive numerical investigations of extensive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-24 Chengshu Li , Xingyu Li , Yi-Neng Zhou

We consider a one-dimensional, time-reversal-invariant system with attractive interactions and spin-orbit coupling. Such a system is gapless due to the strong quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. However, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Keselman , Erez Berg

We have studied the ground state of the two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model by using a quantum monte method paying special attention to the shell structure effect on finite size clusters. Our calculations show there is a gap for spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshihiro ASAI

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