Quantum phase transition of fracton topological orders

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05937v2
• Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 03:00:43 GMT
• Title: Quantum phase transition of fracton topological orders
• Authors: Ting Fung Jeffrey Poon, Xiong-Jun Liu
• Abstract summary: Fracton topological order (FTO) is a new classification of correlated phases in three spatial dimensions. FTO is immune to local perturbations, whereas a strong enough global external perturbation is expected to break the order. We develop a theory to study analytically the critical point of the transition.
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• Abstract: Fracton topological order (FTO) is a new classification of correlated phases in three spatial dimensions with topological ground state degeneracy (GSD) scaling up with system size, and fractional excitations which are immobile or have restricted mobility. With the topological origin of GSD, FTO is immune to local perturbations, whereas a strong enough global external perturbation is expected to break the order. The critical point of the topological transition is however very challenging to identify. In this work, we propose to characterize quantum phase transition of the type-I FTOs induced by external terms and develop a theory to study analytically the critical point of the transition. In particular, for the external perturbation term creating lineon-type excitations, we predict a generic formula for the critical point of the quantum phase transition, characterized by the breaking-down of GSD. This theory applies to a board class of FTOs, including X-cube model, and for more generic FTO models under perturbations creating two-dimensional (2D) or 3D excitations, we predict the upper and lower limits of the critical point. Our work makes a step in characterizing analytically the quantum phase transition of generic fracton orders.

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