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Wei, Chenan ; Mkhitaryan, Vagharsh V. ; Sedrakyan, Tigran A.

Unveiling chiral states in the XXZ chain: finite-size scaling probing symmetry-enriched c = 1 conformal field theories

Wei, Chenan, Mkhitaryan, Vagharsh V. and Sedrakyan, Tigran A. (2024) Unveiling chiral states in the XXZ chain: finite-size scaling probing symmetry-enriched c = 1 conformal field theories. Journal of High Energy Physics 2024 (6).

Date of publication of this fulltext: 18 Feb 2025 05:34
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.74894


Abstract

We study the low-energy properties of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 XXZ chain with time-reversal symmetry-breaking pseudo-scalar chiral interaction and propose a phase diagram for the model. In the integrable case of the isotropic Heisenberg model with the chiral interaction, we employ the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz to find “chiralization”, the response of the ground state versus the strength of ...

We study the low-energy properties of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 XXZ chain with time-reversal symmetry-breaking pseudo-scalar chiral interaction and propose a phase diagram for the model. In the integrable case of the isotropic Heisenberg model with the chiral interaction, we employ the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz to find “chiralization”, the response of the ground state versus the strength of the pseudo-scalar chiral interaction of a chiral Heisenberg chain. Unlike the magnetization case, the chirality of the ground state remains zero until the transition point corresponding to critical coupling αc = 2J/π with J being the antiferromagnetic spin-exchange interaction. The central-charge c = 1 conformal field theories (CFTs) describe the two phases with zero and finite chirality. We show for this particular case and conjecture more generally for similar phase transitions that the difference between two emergent CFTs with identical central charges lies in the symmetry of their ground state (lightest weight) primary fields, i.e., the two phases are symmetry-enriched CFTs. At finite but small temperatures, the non-chiral Heisenberg phase acquires a finite chirality that scales with the temperature quadratically. We show that the finite-size effect around the transition point probes the transition.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleJournal of High Energy Physics
Publisher:Springer Nature
Volume:2024
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:6
Date19 June 2024
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics
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10.1007/JHEP06(2024)125DOI
KeywordsBethe Ansatz, Lattice Integrable Models, Phase Transitions, Scale and Conformal Symmetries
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-748942
Item ID74894

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