Probing the topology of the quantum analog of a classical skyrmion

Abstract

In magnetism, skyrmions correspond to classical three-dimensional spin textures characterized by a topological invariant that keeps track of the winding of the magnetization in real space, a property that cannot be easily generalized to the quantum case since the orientation of a quantum spin is in general ill-defined. Moreover, as we show, the quantum skyrmion state cannot be directly observed in modern experiments that probe the local magnetization of the system. However, we show that this novel quantum state can still be identified and fully characterized by a special local three-spin correlation function defined on neighbouring lattice sites -- the scalar chirality -- which reduces to the classical topological invariant for large systems, and which is shown to be nearly constant in the quantum skyrmion phase.

The paper was partially rewritten. New results on measurements of the quantum skyrmion state with a quantum computer simulator were added

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