Symmetry-protected topological phases in the SU(N) Heisenberg spin chain: a Majorana-fermion approach

Abstract

The nature of symmetry-protected topological phases of Heisenberg spin chains in totally symmetric representations of rank N of the SU(N) group is investigated through a Majorana fermion study starting from an integrable point. The latter approach generalizes the one pioneered by Tsvelik [A. M. Tsvelik, Phys. Rev. B 42, 10 499 (1990)] to describe the low-energy properties of the Haldane phase of the spin-1 Heisenberg chain from three massive Majorana fermions. We find for all N the emergence of a non-degenerate gapped phase with edge states whose topological protection depends on the parity of N. While for N odd there is no such protection, the phase with even N is shown to be topologically protected. We find that the phase belongs to the same topological class as the phase with edge states living in self-conjugate fully antisymmetric representation of the SU(N) group.

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