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Coupled Fredkin and Motzkin chains from quantum six- and nineteen-vertex models
by Zhao Zhang, Israel Klich
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Zhao Zhang |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03038v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2023-05-22 |
| Date submitted: | 2023-03-27 17:21 |
| Submitted by: | Zhang, Zhao |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We generalize the area-law violating models of Fredkin and Motzkin spin chains into two dimensions by building quantum six- and nineteen-vertex models with correlated interactions. The Hamiltonian is frustration free, and its projectors generate ergodic dynamics within the subspace of height configuration that are non negative. The ground state is a volume- and color-weighted superposition of classical bi-color vertex configurations with non-negative heights in the bulk and zero height on the boundary. The entanglement entropy between subsystems has a phase transition as the $q$-deformation parameter is tuned, which is shown to be robust in the presence of an external field acting on the color degree of freedom. The ground state undergoes a quantum phase transition between area- and volume-law entanglement phases with a critical point where entanglement entropy scales as a function $L\log L$ of the linear system size $L$. Intermediate power law scalings between $L\log L$ and $L^2$ can be achieved with an inhomogeneous deformation parameter that approaches 1 at different rates in the thermodynamic limit. For the $q>1$ phase, we construct a variational wave function that establishes an upper bound on the spectral gap that scales as $q^{-L^3/8}$.
Author comments upon resubmission
Please find enclosed the revised manuscript "Coupled Fredkin and Motzkin chains from quantum six- and nineteen-vertex models" to be considered for publication in SciPost Physics. We thank the editor for the consideration of our manuscript and the referees for the helpful reports. In the revised manuscript we have considered and incorporated all points raised by the referees. With the modifications and enrichments listed below, we believe our manuscript is now ready to for the referees and the editor to make a decision.
The authors
List of changes
-We added a review section (Sec. 2) of the one-dimensional Fredkin and Motzkin models, to make it easier for audience unfamiliar with those models to follow the generalizations to two dimensions more easily.
-We supplemented the manuscript with a new section (Sec. 5) to discuss the scaling of the spectral gap as suggested by one of the referees.
-We reformulated the definition of the Hamiltonian terms, now Eq. (15) , (16) and (40), (41), as pointed out by one of the referees.
-We made the Schmidt decomposition, now Eq. (19) and (20), more accurate with unambiguous notation of the height function in the cross section of the bipartition.
-We gave more detail to the derivation of the decomposition of entanglement entropy in the new Eq. (27), for it to be easier to follow.
-We implemented all the other suggestions and addressed all the other concerns of the referees, a detailed list can be found in the responses to referees.
Published as SciPost Phys. 15, 044 (2023)
Reports on this Submission
Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2023-4-2 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2210.03038v3, delivered 2023-04-02, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.6987
Report
The authors have revised the manuscript and thereby improved its quality/readability substantially. In particular, the new review section about the colored-Fredkin and Motzkin chains will be beneficial to those who are unfamiliar with this subject. The authors have also added a new result concerning the spectral gap above the ground state. This is valuable, as the rigorous results for two-dimensional models are quite scarce. Besides, the authors have pertinently addressed the comments raised in my previous report. Thus, I think the current manuscript is worth publishing in SciPost. But still, I would like to ask the authors to check the following issue before publication.
- Eq. (10)
Is the Hamiltonian really correct? I know the authors corrected the sign of the fourth term in the bracket. But the subscripts of the terms ($x, y+1$, etc.) still do not match those in Fig. 1 (c). (For details, please see my comment 1 in the previous report.) The authors might want to check the consistency of this equation with the figure.
Requested changes
Minor comments:
- 1 line below Eq. (1)
Dych paths -> Dyck paths
Author: Zhao Zhang on 2023-04-15 [id 3590]
(in reply to Report 1 on 2023-04-02)We thank the referee for carefully reading the revised manuscript and for the positive report. We have noticed the mismatch between the summation range in Eq. (10) and the corresponding figure, and will correct that as well as the typo that the referee has kindly pointed out.