Tohru Koma

Spectral Gap and Exponential Decay of Correlations

We study the relation between the spectral gap above the ground state and the decay of the correlations in the ground state in quantum spin and fermion systems with short-range interactions on a wide class of lattices. We prove that, if two observables anticommute with each other at large distance, then the nonvanishing spectral gap implies exponential decay of the corresponding correlation. When two observables commute with each other at large distance, the connected correlation function decays exponentially under the gap assumption. If the observables behave as a vector under the U(1) rotation of a global symmetry of the system, we use previous results on the large distance decay of the correlation function to show the stronger statement that the correlation function itself, rather than just the connected correlation function, decays exponentially under the gap assumption on a lattice with a certain self-similarity in (fractal) dimensions D < 2. In particular, if the system is translationally invariant in one of the spatial directions, then this self-similarity condition is automatically satisfied. We also treat systems with long-range, power-law decaying interactions.

The Spectral Gap of the Ferromagnetic XXZ-Chain

AbstractWe prove that the spectral gap of the spin-

Symmetry breaking and finite-size effects in quantum many-body systems

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The ℤ2 index of disordered topological insulators with time reversal symmetry

ferromagnetic XXZ-chain with HamiltonianH=−Σ_x S^{(1)}_xS^{(1)}_{x+1}+S^{(2)}_xS^{(2)}_{x+1}+\Delta S^{(3)}_xS^{(3)}_{x+1}, is given by Δ-1 for all Δ≥1. This is the gap in the spectrum of the infinite chainin any of its ground states, the translation invariant ones as well asthe kink ground states, which contain an interface between an up and a down region.In particular, this shows that the lowest magnon energy is not affected by the presence of a domain wall. This surprising fact is a consequence of the SUq(2)quantum group symmetry of the model.

Symmetry breaking in Heisenberg antiferromagnets

In a general class of one- and two-dimensional Hubbard models, we prove upper bounds for the two-point correlation functions at finite temperatures for electrons, electron pairs, and spin. The upper bounds decay exponentially in one dimension, and with power laws in two dimensions. The bounds rule out the possibility of the corresponding condensation of superconducting electron pairs, and of the corresponding magnetic ordering. Our method is general enough to cover other models such as the t-J model

Spectral Gaps of Quantum Hall Systems with Interactions

We consider a quantum many-body system on a lattice which exhibits a spontaneous symmetry breaking in its infinite-volume ground states, but in which the corresponding order operator does not commute with the Hamiltonian. Typical examples are the Heisenberg antiferromagnet with a Néel order and the Hubbard model with a (superconducting) off-diagonal long-range order. In the corresponding finite system, the symmetry breaking is usually “obscured” by “quantum fluctuation” and one gets a symmetric ground state with a long-range order. In such a situation, Horsch and von der Linden proved that the finite system has a low-lying eigenstate whose excitation energy is not more than of orderN−1, whereN denotes the number of sites in the lattice. Here we study the situation where the broken symmetry is a continuous one. For a particular set of states (which are orthogonal to the ground state and with each other), we prove bounds for their energy expectation values. The bounds establish that there exist ever-increasing numbers of low-lying eigenstates whose excitation energies are bounded by a constant timesN−1. A crucial feature of the particular low-lying states we consider is that they can be regarded as finite-volume counterparts of the infinite-volume ground states. By forming linear combinations of these low-lying states and the (finite-volume) ground state and by taking infinite-volume limits, we construct infinite-volume ground states with explicit symmetry breaking. We conjecture that these infinite-volume ground states are ergodic, i.e., physically natural. Our general theorems not only shed light on the nature of symmetry breaking in quantum many-body systems, but also provide indispensable information for numerical approaches to these systems. We also discuss applications of our general results to a variety of interesting examples. The present paper is intended to be accessible to readers without background in mathematical approaches to quantum many-body systems.

Spectral gap and decay of correlations in U(1)-symmetric lattice systems in dimensions D<2

A new method is proposed for calculating the free energy of the one·dimensional spin·l/2 XXZ Heisenberg model. The partition function is written in terms of the transfer matrix for a two· dimensional Ising system, whose maximum eigenvalue is obtained by the Bethe·ansatz method leading to the free energy in the thermodynamic limit. This method uses no such assumption as the completeness of the Bethe states that has been proved only partially and yields better results than the previous methods do.

The noncommutative index theorem and the periodic table for disordered topological insulators and superconductors

We study disordered topological insulators with time reversal symmetry. Relying on the noncommutative index theorem which relates the Chern number to the projection onto the Fermi sea and the magnetic flux operator, we give a precise definition of the ℤ2 index which is a noncommutative analogue of the Atiyah-Singer ℤ2 index. We prove that the noncommutative ℤ2 index is robust against any time reversal symmetric perturbation including disorder potentials as long as the spectral gap at the Fermi level does not close.