Kosterlitz-Thouless phase and $Z_d$ topological quantum phase

Abstract

It has been known that encoding Boltzmann weights of a classical spin model in amplitudes of a many-body wave function can provide quantum models whose phase structure is characterized by using classical phase transitions. In particular, such correspondence can lead to find new quantum phases corresponding to well-known classical phases. Here, we investigate this problem for Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase in the d-state clock model where we find a corresponding quantum model constructed by applying a local invertible transformation on a d-level version of Kitaev's Toric code. In particular, we show the ground state fidelity in such quantum model is mapped to the heat capacity of the clock model. Accordingly, we identify an extended topological phase transition in our model in a sense that, for $d\ge 5$, a KT-like quantum phase emerges between a $Z_d$ topological phase and a trivial phase. Then, using a mapping to the correlation function in the clock model, we introduce a non-local (string) observable for the quantum model which exponentially decays in terms of distance between two endpoints of the corresponding string in the $Z_d$ topological phase while it shows a power law behavior in the KT-like phase. Finally, using well-known transition temperatures for d-state clock model we give evidences to show that while stability of both $Z_d$ topological phase and the KT-like phase increases by increasing d, the KT-like phase is even more stable than the $Z_d$ topological phase for large d.

10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review B

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