Degeneracy beyond the parity-symmetry protection in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21010v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:58:12 GMT
• Title: Degeneracy beyond the parity-symmetry protection in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
• Abstract summary: Degeneracy patterns in quantum mechanics stem from the system symmetries.<n>In particular, the broken-symmetry phase in the well-known Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model is composed of doubly-degenerate states of different parity.<n>We show that such doublets can exist even if parity is not conserved.
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• Abstract: Degeneracy patterns in quantum mechanics stem from the system symmetries. In particular, the broken-symmetry phase in the well-known Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model is composed of doubly-degenerate states of different parity. In this work, we show that such doublets can exist even if parity is not conserved. For this purpose, our starting point is an anharmonic LMG Hamiltonian with a second-order ground-state quantum phase transition (GSQPT) and a rich spectrum, with two different excited-state quantum phase transitions. The inclusion in the Hamiltonian of a term inducing a first-order GSQPT breaks the parity symmetry but conserving the exponential degeneracy in the energy doublets. We demonstrate that this phenomenon can be traced back to the existence of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry (reflection symmetry) in the system's classical limit phase space that leads to an anti-unitary $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in the quantum system.

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