Topologically stable ergodicity breaking from emergent higher-form symmetries in generalized quantum loop models

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العنوان: Topologically stable ergodicity breaking from emergent higher-form symmetries in generalized quantum loop models
المؤلفون: Stahl, Charles, Nandkishore, Rahul, Hart, Oliver
المصدر: SciPost Phys. 16, 068 (2024)
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, High Energy Physics - Theory
الوصف: We present a set of generalized quantum loop models which provably exhibit topologically stable ergodicity breaking. These results hold for both periodic and open boundary conditions, and derive from a one-form symmetry (notably not being restricted to sectors of extremal one-form charge). We identify simple models in which this one-form symmetry can be emergent, giving rise to the aforementioned ergodicity breaking as an exponentially long-lived prethermal phenomenon. We unveil a web of dualities that connects these models, in certain limits, to models that have previously been discussed in the literature. We also identify nonlocal conserved quantities in such models that correspond to a pattern of system-spanning domain walls, and which are robust to the addition of arbitrary $k$-local perturbations.
Comment: 22+8 pages, 8 figures; v2 includes minor revisions and additional references
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.068
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04792
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2304.04792
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.3.068