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29 March 2024
 
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of strange correlator in interacting topological insulators
Han-Qing Wu ; Yuan-Yao He ; Yi-Zhuang You ; Cenke Xu ; Zi Yang Meng ; Zhong-Yi Lu ;
Date 1 Jun 2015
AbstractDistinguishing nontrivial symmetry protected topological (SPT) phase from trivial insulator in the presence of electron interaction is an urgent question to the study of topological insulators, due to the fact that most of the topological indices defined for free electron systems are no longer applicable with interaction. In this work, we demonstrate that the strange correlator is a sensitive diagnosis to detect SPT states in interacting systems. Employing large-scale quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we investigate the interaction driven quantum phase transition in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. The transition from quantum spin Hall insulator at weak interaction to antiferromagnetic Mott insulator at strong interaction can be readily detected by the momentum space behavior of the strange correlator in single particle, spin, and pairing channels. The interaction effects on the symmetry protected edge states in various channels, i.e., the Luttinger liquid behavior, are well captured in the QMC measurements of strange correlators. Moreover, we demonstrate that the strange correlator is technically much easier to implement in QMC and much robuster in performance than other proposed numerical diagnoses for interacting SPT states, as only static correlations are needed. The attempt in this work paves the way for using the strange correlator to study interaction driven topological phase transitions in fermionic as well as bosonic systems.
Source arXiv, 1506.0549
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