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arXiv:0806.4416 · Physical Review B

Topological identification of a spin- 12 two-leg ladder with four-spin ring exchange

Isao Maruyama, Takaaki Hirano, Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Published Mar 12, 2009• 26 citations
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Abstract

A spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ two-leg ladder with four-spin ring exchange is studied by quantized Berry phases, used as local-order parameters. Reflecting local objects, nontrivial $(\ensuremath{\pi})$ Berry phase is founded on a rung for the rung-singlet phase and on a plaquette for the vector-chiral phase. Since the quantized Berry phase is topologically invariant for gapped systems with the time-reversal symmetry, topologically identical models can be obtained by the adiabatic modification. The rung-singlet phase is adiabatically connected to a decoupled rung-singlet model and the vector-chiral phase is connected to a decoupled vector-chiral model. Decoupled models reveal that the local objects are a local singlet and a plaquette singlet, respectively.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.79.115107

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