Spectral properties for a family of two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
arXiv:1509.04719 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.045129
Abstract
We study the spectral properties of a family of quantum antiferromagnets on two-dimensional (2D) lattices. This family of models is obtained by a deformation of the well-studied 2D quantum antiferromagnetic model of Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb and Tasaki (AKLT); they are described by two-body, frustration-free Hamiltonians on a three-colourable lattice of spins. Although the existence of a spectral gap in the 2D AKLT model remains an open question, we rigorously prove the existence of a gap for a subset of this family of quantum antiferromagnets. Along with providing new progress for the gap problem in AKLT-type antiferromagnets in 2D, this result has implications for the theory of quantum computation as it provides a family of two-body Hamiltonians for which the ground state is a resource for universal quantum computation and for which a spectral gap is proven to exist.
14 pages, 6 figures, comments welcome; v2 published version
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