2017
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.95.195140
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Exact zero modes in twisted Kitaev chains

Abstract: We study the Kitaev chain under generalized twisted boundary conditions, for which both the amplitudes and the phases of the boundary couplings can be tuned at will. We explicitly show the presence of exact zero modes for large chains belonging to the topological phase in the most general case, in spite of the absence of "edges" in the system. For specific values of the phase parameters, we rigorously obtain the condition for the presence of the exact zero modes in finite chains, and show that the zero modes o… Show more

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“…We insert a flux term into the closed chain that plays the role of switching the boundary conditions from periodic to anti-periodic. Such a system was previously studied in [40]. The Hamiltonian is…”
Section: Flux Insertion and Z 2 -Valued Spectral Flowmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…We insert a flux term into the closed chain that plays the role of switching the boundary conditions from periodic to anti-periodic. Such a system was previously studied in [40]. The Hamiltonian is…”
Section: Flux Insertion and Z 2 -Valued Spectral Flowmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our analysis closely follows [40,Appendix D], who considered the interacting Kitaev chain with twisted boundary conditions. We add periodic boundary conditions to the Hamiltonian with local flux, H int Λ (α) = −w(e −iα a * 1 a 2 + e iα a * 2 a 1 ) + w(e iα a 1 a 2 + e −iα a * 2 a * 1 )…”
Section: Flux Insertion and Gap Closing In The Closed Chainmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, simple equally weighted linear superpositions of the two yield two orthogonal states with distinct fermion parities [26]. It was further shown in [30] that the aforementioned two orthogonal states, one of which having odd fermion parity and the other having even parity, are also the ground states of the interacting Kitaev chain under periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions, respectively.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Actually, it was shown in Ref. [30] that |Ψ (e) (|Ψ (o) ) is exactly the ground state of the fermion version of the homogeneous periodic XYZ chain…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In general, these two modes are "almost" Majorana zero modes (AMZM) in the sense that they decay exponentially away from the edges and possesses an exponentially small excitation energy in the thermodynamic limit. However, exact Majorana zero modes (EMZMs) that strictly commute with the Hamiltonian can emerge [11,24] in the special case with equal hopping and pairing strength. These two unpaired EMZMs are spatially separated and lead to two-fold degenerate ground states robust under fermionparity-preserving perturbations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%