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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 type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Journal of High Energy Physics | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature | ||||
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| Volume: | 2024 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 6 | ||||
| Date | 19 June 2024 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics | ||||
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| Keywords | Bethe Ansatz, Lattice Integrable Models, Phase Transitions, Scale and Conformal Symmetries | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-748942 | ||||
| Item ID | 74894 |
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