In this letter, we propose an application of string order parameter (SOP), commonly used in quantum spin systems, to identify symmetry-protected topological phase (SPT) in fermionic systems in the example of the dimerized fermionic chain. As a generalized form of dimerized model, we consider a one-dimensional spin-1/2 XX model with alternating spin couplings. We employ Jordan-Wigner fermionization to map this model to the spinless Su-Schrieffer-Heeger fermionic model (SSH) with generalized hopping signs. We demonstrate a phase transition between a trivial insulating phase and the Haldane phase by the exact analytical evaluation of reconstructed SOPs which are represented as determinants of Toeplitz matrices with the given generating functions. To get more insight into the topological quantum phase transition (tQPT) and microscopic correlations, we study the pairwise concurrence as a local entanglement measure of the model. We show that the first derivative of the concurrence has a non-analytic behaviour in the vicinity of the tQPT, like in the second order trivial QPTs.
We study the phase diagram of the
SOq(3) quantum group invariant spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic spin chain for real values of
q>1. Numerical computations suggest that the chain has at least three clearly distinguished phases: A chiral analog of the Haldane phase, a dimerized phase, and a ferromagnetic phase. In contrast, the counterpart of the extended critical region that is known to exist for
q=1 remains elusive. Our results show that the Haldane phase fails to exhibit a twofold degeneracy in the entanglement spectrum but that the degeneracy is restored upon a suitable
q deformation of the entanglement Hamiltonian, which can be interpreted as a Zeeman field. The structure of the phase diagram is confirmed through analytical calculations in the extreme anisotropic limit $q\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$. Our results suggest that symmetries of the form
Uq[su(2)] for distinct choices of
q should be interpreted as one single family instead of separate symmetries when defining SPT phases, leading naturally to the notion of a
q-SPT phase.
Commensurate and incommensurate Haldane phases for a spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic model are investigated using an infinite matrix product state algorithm. The bipartite entanglement entropy can detect a transition point between the two phases. In both phases, the entanglement spectrum shows double degeneracy. We calculate the nonlocal order parameter of the bond-centered inversion in both phases, which rapidly approaches a saturation value of −1 as the segment length increases. The nonlocal order parameter of the bond-centered inversion with a saturation value −1 and the nonzero value string order indicate that the Haldane phase is a symmetry-protected topological phase. To distinguish the commensurate and incommensurate Haldane phases, the transversal spin correlation and corresponding momentum distribution of the structure factor are analyzed. As a result, the transversal spin correlations exhibit different decay forms in both phases.
A topological phase is a phase of matter which cannot be characterized by a local order parameter. It has been shown that gapped symmetric phases in one-dimensional (1D) systems can be completely characterized using tools related to projective representations of the symmetry groups. We explain two ways to detect these symmetry protected topological phases in 1D. First, we give a numerical approach for directly extracting the projective representations from a matrix-product state representation. Second, we derive nonlocal order parameters for time-reversal and inversion symmetry, and discuss a generalized string order for local symmetries for which the regular string-order parameter cannot be applied. We furthermore point out that the nonlocal order parameter for these topological phases is actually related to topological surfaces.
Using a generalized Jordan-Wigner transformation combined with the defining representation of the SO(
N) spin, we map the SO(
N) bilinear-biquadratic (BLBQ) spin chain into the
N-color bosonic particle model. We find that, when the Jordan-Wigner transformation disentangles the symmetry-protected topological entanglement, this bosonic model becomes negative-sign-free in the context of quantum Monte Carlo simulation. For the SO(3) case, moreover, the Kennedy-Tasaki transformation for the
S=1 BLBQ chain, which is also a topological disentangler, derives the same bosonic model through the dimer-R bases. We present the temperature dependence of the energy, entropy, and string order parameter for the SO(
N=3,4,5) BLBQ chains by a world-line Monte Carlo simulation for the
N-color bosonic particle model.
We propose an order parameter for the symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases which are protected by Abelian on-site symmetries. This order parameter, called the SPT entanglement, is defined as the entanglement between
A and
B, two distant regions of the system, given that the total charge (associated with the symmetry) in a third region
C is measured and known, where
C is a connected region surrounded by
A,B, and the boundaries of the system. In the case of one-dimensional systems we prove that in the limit where
A and
B are large and far from each other compared to the correlation length, the SPT entanglement remains constant throughout a SPT phase, and furthermore, it is zero for the trivial phase while it is nonzero for all the nontrivial phases. Moreover, we show that the SPT entanglement is invariant under the low-depth quantum circuits which respect the symmetry, and hence it remains constant throughout a SPT phase in the higher dimensions as well. Also, we show that there is an intriguing connection between SPT entanglement and the Fourier transform of the string order parameters, which are the traditional tool for detecting SPT phases. This leads to an algorithm for extracting the relevant information about the SPT phase of the system from the string order parameters. Finally, we discuss implications of our results in the context of measurement-based quantum computation.