The frustration of being odd: how boundary conditions can destroy local order
A central tenant in the classification of phases is that boundary conditions cannot affect the bulk properties of a system. In this work, we show striking, yet puzzling, evidence of a clear violation of this assumption. We use the prototypical example of an XYZ chain with no external field in a ring...
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| 格式: | Article |
| 語言: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2020-01-01
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| 叢編: | New Journal of Physics |
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| 在線閱讀: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aba064 |