Phase diagram of an extended parafermion chain

Jurriaan Wouters, Fabian Hassler, Hosho Katsura, Dirk Schuricht

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Abstract

We study the phase diagram of an extended parafermion chain, which,in addition to terms coupling parafermions on neighbouring sites, alsopossesses terms involving four sites. Via a Fradkin–Kadanofftransformation the parafermion chain is shown to be equivalent to thenon-chiral \mathbf{\mathbb{Z}_3}ℤ3axial next-nearest neighbour Potts model. We discuss a possibleexperimental realisation using hetero-nanostructures. The phase diagramcontains several gapped phases, including a topological phase where thesystem possesses three (nearly) degenerate ground states, and a gaplessLuttinger-liquid phase.
Original languageEnglish
Article number008
JournalSciPost Physics Core
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Feb 2022

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