Arboreal obstructed atomic insulating and metallic phases of fermions

Singh, G and Bera, S and Shenoy, VB (2024) Arboreal obstructed atomic insulating and metallic phases of fermions. In: Physical Review B, 110 (20).

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Abstract

We explore phases of free fermions on arenas that do not tessellate a manifold. Specializing to arboreal arenas described by tree graphs which possess a notion of translational symmetry, we study possible fermionic phases in the BDI symmetry class on the p-coordinated Bethe lattice. We find that there are p distinct obstructed atomic insulating phases that are characterized by distinct edge states, patterns of entanglement, and a winding characteristic that we define here. These distinct insulating phases are always separated by a metallic region in the parameter space rather than isolated quantum critical points. The metallic region itself comprises several distinct metallic phases that are distinguished by their winding characteristics and correlation functions. The correlation functions of distinct subsystems display nonanalytic behavior at distinct points in the metallic region, signaling a cascade of subsystem transitions. An intriguing feature of these arboreal metals is the presence of truncated subsystems with zero-energy boundary modes despite being gapless. This work suggests new opportunities for synthetic quantum systems to realize these novel phases. © 2024 American Physical Society.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physical Review B
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to publisher.
Keywords:	Atoms; Crystal symmetry; Energy gap; Quantum entanglement; Quantum optics; Trees (mathematics), Bethe lattice; Correlation function; Edge state; Insulating phase; Metallic phase; Metallic regions; Parameter spaces; Symmetry class; Translational symmetry; Tree graph, Fermions
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2024 05:41
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2024 05:41
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/87127

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