Critical properties of the Majorana chain with competing interactions

Abstract

We study critical properties of a Majorana chain in the presence of two competing interactions of the shortest possible range. The obtained phase diagram is very rich and contains nine different phases, including three floating, two Ising, and four gapped phases. In addition we report a wide variety of quantum phase transitions: the supersymmetric tri-critical Ising lines; the Lifshitz critical line characterized by the dynamical critical exponent $z=3$; Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions, and an exotic first order transition between the floating and the gapped phases. However, the most surprising feature of the obtained phase diagram is the emergence of the commensurate line at which the floating phases collapses into direct transition. We provide numerical evidences that the resulting multi-critical point belongs to the universality class of the eight-vertex model. Implications in the context of supersymmetric properties of the Majorana chain is briefly discussed.

arXiv comment12 pages, 13 figures

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