Many-Body Topological and Skin States without Open Boundaries

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01182v2
• Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:23:52 GMT
• Title: Many-Body Topological and Skin States without Open Boundaries
• Authors: Ching Hua Lee
• Abstract summary: We show that many-body effects can induce analogs of robust states in place of actual physical boundaries. We demonstrate the emergence of topological chiral modes in a two-fermion hopping model without open boundaries. Our many-body skin states generalize directly in the thermodynamic limit.
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• Abstract: Robust boundary states have been the focus of much recent research, both as topologically protected states and as non-Hermitian skin states. In this work, we show that many-body effects can also induce analogs of these robust states in place of actual physical boundaries. Particle statistics or suitably engineered interactions i.e. in ultracold atomic lattices can restrict the accessible many-body Hilbert space, and introduce effective boundaries in a spatially periodic higher-dimensional configuration space. We demonstrate the emergence of topological chiral modes in a two-fermion hopping model without open boundaries, with fermion pairs confined and asymmetrically propagated by suitably chosen fluxes. Heterogeneous non-reciprocal hoppings across different particle species can also result in robust particle clumping in a translation invariant setting, reminiscent of skin mode accumulation at an open boundary. But unlike fixed open boundaries, effective boundaries correspond to the locations of impenetrable particles and are dynamic, giving rise to fundamentally different many-body vs. single-body time evolution behavior. Since non-reciprocal accumulation is agnostic to the dimensionality of restricted Hilbert spaces, our many-body skin states generalize directly in the thermodynamic limit. The many-body topological states, however, are nontrivially dimension-dependent, and their detailed exploration will stimulate further studies in higher dimensional topological invariants.

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