Abstract

The investigation and characterization of topological quantum phase transition between gapless phases is one of the recent interest of research in topological states of matter. We consider transverse field Ising model with three spin interaction in one dimension and observe a topological transition between gapless phases on one of the critical lines of this model. We study the distinct nature of these gapless phases and show that they belong to different universality classes. The topological invariant number (winding number) characterize different topological phases for the different regime of parameter space. We observe the evidence of two multi-critical points, one is topologically trivial and the other one is topologically active. Topological quantum phase transition between the gapless phases on the critical line occurs through the non-trivial multi-critical point in the Lifshitz universality class. We calculate and analyze the behavior of Wannier state correlation function close to the multi-critical point and confirm the topological transition between gapless phases. We show the breakdown of Lorentz invariance at this multi-critical point through the energy dispersion analysis. We also show that the scaling theories and curvature function renormalization group can also be effectively used to understand the topological quantum phase transitions between gapless phases. The model Hamiltonian which we study is more applicable for the system with gapless excitations, where the conventional concept of topological quantum phase transition fails.

Highlights

  • We briefly review the curvature function renormalization group (CRG) method which encapsulates the critical behavior of a system during topological phase transition

  • The theory of critical phenomena and curvature function renormalization scheme, developed for the topological phase transitions, provides an alternative platform to understand the transition between gapped phases against the conventional theory on topological invariant

  • We have shown explicitly that these tools can be extended for the characterization of topological quantum phase transition occurring between gapless phases

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Introduction

Even though there is a transition between w = 1 and w = 2 gapped phases for both k0 = 0 and k0 = π HSPs, the nature of energy spectra, critical theory and the scaling of curvature function are different. We discuss the topological transition between the gapless phases through multi-critical point on the critical line 2 = μ − 1 .

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