Defect engineering spin centers in interacting many-body Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains

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Main Authors: Wang, Lin, Luu, Thomas, Meißner, Ulf-G.
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Published: 2025
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author Wang, Lin
Luu, Thomas
Meißner, Ulf-G.
author_facet Wang, Lin
Luu, Thomas
Meißner, Ulf-G.
contents The ability to engineer topologically distinct materials opens the possibility of enabling novel phenomena in low-dimensional nano-systems, as well as manufacturing novel quantum devices. One of the simplest examples, the SSH model with both even and odd number of sites, demonstrates the connection between localized edge states and the topology of the system. We show that the SSH model hosts localized spin centers due to the interplay between the localized edge states and the on-site Hubbard interaction. We further show how one can engineer any number of localized spin centers within the chain by careful addition of defects. These spin centers are paired in spin-singlet or spin-triplet channels within each block separated by the defects, and together they construct an array of spin singlet and/or triplet qubits. As this system is realizable experimentally, our findings describe a novel way for manipulating and engineering spin qubits and therefore provide a platform for performing many-body quantum simulations on spin excitations like magnons and triplons.
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spellingShingle Defect engineering spin centers in interacting many-body Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains
Wang, Lin
Luu, Thomas
Meißner, Ulf-G.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
The ability to engineer topologically distinct materials opens the possibility of enabling novel phenomena in low-dimensional nano-systems, as well as manufacturing novel quantum devices. One of the simplest examples, the SSH model with both even and odd number of sites, demonstrates the connection between localized edge states and the topology of the system. We show that the SSH model hosts localized spin centers due to the interplay between the localized edge states and the on-site Hubbard interaction. We further show how one can engineer any number of localized spin centers within the chain by careful addition of defects. These spin centers are paired in spin-singlet or spin-triplet channels within each block separated by the defects, and together they construct an array of spin singlet and/or triplet qubits. As this system is realizable experimentally, our findings describe a novel way for manipulating and engineering spin qubits and therefore provide a platform for performing many-body quantum simulations on spin excitations like magnons and triplons.
title Defect engineering spin centers in interacting many-body Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18806