Issue |
EPL
Volume 84, Number 5, December 2008
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Article Number | 57002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/84/57002 | |
Published online | 25 November 2008 |
An exactly soluble model with tunable p-wave paired fermion ground states
1
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080, China
2
Department of Physics, Boston College - Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Corresponding author: yyu@itp.ac.cn
Received:
2
June
2008
Accepted:
21
October
2008
Motivated by the work of Kitaev, we construct an exactly soluble spin- model on a honeycomb lattice whose ground states are identical to -wave paired fermions on a square lattice, with tunable paring order parameters. We derive a universal phase diagram for this general p-wave theory which contains a gapped A-phase and a topologically non-trivial B-phase. We show that the gapless condition in the B-phase is governed by a generalized inversion (G-inversion) symmetry under . The G-inversion symmetric gapless B-phase near the phase boundaries is described by -dimensional gapless Majorana fermions in the asymptotic long-wavelength limit, i.e. the conformal field theory. The gapped B-phase has G-inversion symmetry breaking and is the weak pairing phase described by the Moore-Read Pfaffian. We show that in the gapped B-phase, vortex pair excitations are separated from the ground state by a finite energy gap.
PACS: 75.10.Jm – Quantized spin models / 03.67.Pp – Quantum error correction and other methods for protection against decoherence / 71.10.Pm – Fermions in reduced dimensions (anyons, composite fermions, Luttinger liquid, etc.)
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