$C^1$-classification of gapped parent Hamiltonians of quantum spin chains

Abstract

We consider the $C^1$-classification of gapped Hamiltonians introduced in [Fannes-Nachtergaele-Werner, Nachtergaele] as parents Hamiltonians of translation invariant finitely correlated states. Within this family, we show that the number of edge modes, which is equal at the left and right edge, is the complete invariant. The construction proves that translation invariance of the `bulk' ground state does not need to be broken to establish $C^1$-equivalence, namely that the spin chain does not need to be blocked.

arXiv commentThe asymmetric case considered in [v1] has been removed from [v2] because of an error in Lemma 4.1(b)

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