Coupling induced emergent topology in a two-leg fermionic ladder

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Main Authors: Parida, Rajashri, Paul, Biswajit, Padhi, Soumya Ranjan, Mishra, Tapan
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author Parida, Rajashri
Paul, Biswajit
Padhi, Soumya Ranjan
Mishra, Tapan
author_facet Parida, Rajashri
Paul, Biswajit
Padhi, Soumya Ranjan
Mishra, Tapan
contents We investigate the ground state properties of spinless fermions on a two leg ladder, by allowing the nearest-neighbour hopping dimerization in one leg and uniform hopping in the other. In the non-interacting limit, we find that, at half-filling, the system exhibits robust topological behavior if the inter-leg hopping is allowed. Though depending on the dimerization pattern, the dimerized leg can be either topological or trivial in nature, here we show that by connecting such a leg to a uniform leg through inter-chain coupling, the overall system becomes topological irrespective of the dimerization pattern in the dimerized leg. As a result, a topological phase transition occurs as a function of the inter-leg hopping. When the inter-leg interaction is turned on, the topological phase survives, and we obtain an interaction induced topological phase transition. Finally, we reveal that when uniform interactions are included on all the bonds of the ladder, the topological phase transitions to a symmetry-broken charge-density wave (CDW) phase.
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spellingShingle Coupling induced emergent topology in a two-leg fermionic ladder
Parida, Rajashri
Paul, Biswajit
Padhi, Soumya Ranjan
Mishra, Tapan
Quantum Gases
Other Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We investigate the ground state properties of spinless fermions on a two leg ladder, by allowing the nearest-neighbour hopping dimerization in one leg and uniform hopping in the other. In the non-interacting limit, we find that, at half-filling, the system exhibits robust topological behavior if the inter-leg hopping is allowed. Though depending on the dimerization pattern, the dimerized leg can be either topological or trivial in nature, here we show that by connecting such a leg to a uniform leg through inter-chain coupling, the overall system becomes topological irrespective of the dimerization pattern in the dimerized leg. As a result, a topological phase transition occurs as a function of the inter-leg hopping. When the inter-leg interaction is turned on, the topological phase survives, and we obtain an interaction induced topological phase transition. Finally, we reveal that when uniform interactions are included on all the bonds of the ladder, the topological phase transitions to a symmetry-broken charge-density wave (CDW) phase.
title Coupling induced emergent topology in a two-leg fermionic ladder
topic Quantum Gases
Other Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25130