Dissipative Symmetry-Protected Topological Order
arXiv:2211.14389 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L241104
Abstract
In this work, we investigate the interplay between dissipation and symmetry-protected topological order. We considered the one-dimensional spin-1 Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki model interacting with an environment where the dissipative dynamics are described by the Lindladian master equation. The Markovian dynamics is solved by the implementation of a tensor network algorithm for mixed states in the thermodynamic limit. We observe that, for time-reversal symmetric dissipation, the resulting steady state has topological signatures even if being a mixed state. This is seen in finite string-order parameters as well as in the degeneracy pattern of singular values in the tensor network decomposition of the reduced density matrix. We also show that such features do not appear for non-symmetric dissipation. Our work opens the way toward a generalized and more practical definition of symmetry-protected topological order for mixed states induced by dissipation.
5 pages, 5 figure, revised version
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