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Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Ingeniera y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional de Rosario and Instituto
de Fsica Rosario, Boulevard 27 de Febrero 210 bis, 2000 Rosario, Argentina
2
Condensed Matter Theory Center and Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics,
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA
3
School of Physics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
(Received 4 December 2014; revised manuscript received 10 April 2015; published 22 May 2015)
Topological Kondo insulators are strongly correlated materials where itinerant electrons hybridize with
localized spins, giving rise to a topologically nontrivial band structure. Here, we use nonperturbative
bosonization and renormalization-group techniques to study theoretically a one-dimensional topological
Kondo insulator, described as a Kondo-Heisenberg model, where the Heisenberg spin-1=2 chain is coupled to
a Hubbard chain through a Kondo exchange interaction in the p-wave channel (i.e., a strongly correlated
version of the prototypical Tamm-Schockley model). We derive and solve renormalization-group equations at
two-loop order in the Kondo parameter, and find that, at half filling, the charge degrees of freedom in the
Hubbard chain acquire a Mott gap, even in the case of a noninteracting conduction band (Hubbard parameter
U 0). Furthermore, at low enough temperatures, the system maps onto a spin-1=2 ladder with local
ferromagnetic interactions along the rungs, effectively locking the spin degrees of freedom into a spin-1 chain
with frozen charge degrees of freedom. This structure behaves as a spin-1 Haldane chain, a prototypical
interacting topological spin model, and features two magnetic spin-1=2 end states for chains with open
boundary conditions. Our analysis allows us to derive an insightful connection between topological Kondo
insulators in one spatial dimension and the well-known physics of the Haldane chain, showing that the ground
state of the former is qualitatively different from the predictions of the naive mean-field theory.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.021017
I. INTRODUCTION
Starting with the pioneering works of Kane and Mele
[1,2] and others [35], there has been a surge of interest
in topological characterization of insulating states [68].
It is now understood that there exist distinct symmetryprotected classes of noninteracting insulators, such that
two representatives from different classes cannot be
adiabatically transformed into one another (without closing
the insulating gap and breaking the underlying symmetry
along the way). A complete topological classification
of such band insulators has been developed in the form
of a periodic table of topological insulators [9,10].
Furthermore, it was realized that the nontrivial (topological)
insulators from this table possess, as their hallmark features,
gapless boundary modes. The latter have been spectacularly
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FIG. 1. Schematic representation of the 1D p-wave KondoHeisenberg model. The top chain corresponds to the Hubbard
model and the bottom chain is the S 1=2 antiferromagnetic
Heisenberg model. The Kondo exchange (depicted pictorially as
slanted bonds with odd inversion symmetry) is a nonlocal
nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interaction J K > 0 that
couples a spin Sj in the Heisenberg chain with the p-wave spin
density j in the Hubbard chain [see Eq. (4)].
H1 t
N
s 1
X
Ns
X
j1;
nj;
j1;
Ns
X
1
1
nj
nj
U
2
2
j1
N
s 1
X
Sj Sj1 ;
j1
Ns
X
Sj j ;
j1
pj;
pj; ;
2
p
where pj; cj1; cj1; = 2 is a linear combination
of orbitals with p-wave symmetry and is the vector of
Pauli matrices. This model can be regarded as a strongly
interacting version of the Tamm-Shockley model [3234].
While for our present purposes this is an interesting
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9
10
x
kF Lc q
2
Lc
X
sin kn x
p n; n; ;
n
n1
1; x
2
2a 0
where the new fields obey the boundary conditions
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1s 0 0;
1s Lc p q q ;
2
13
1c 0 p ;
2
p
1c Lc 2 kF Lc
p q q ; 14
2
2
functions K 1c 1= 1 Ua=vF (K 1s 1). The presence of the cosine terms in the second line of Eq. (12)
changes the physics qualitatively. In the present work, we
restrictpour
focus to the case U 0, where the term
cos 81c is marginally relevant in the renormalization-group sense and opens a Mott gap
pin
the charge sector.
At the same time, the term cos 81s is marginally
irrelevant at the SU(2) symmetric point, and the spin sector
remains gapless [36,37].
The bosonization of the Heisenberg chain H2 is also
quite standard, and we refer the reader to the abovementioned textbooks [36,37]. A usual trick consists of
representing the spin operators Sj by auxiliary fermionic
operators in a half filled Hubbard model with interaction
parameter U 0 U. Therefore, while technically the procedure is identical to Eq. (12), the charge degrees of
freedom in the bosonized Hamiltonian, H 2 can be assumed
to be absent at the relevant energy scales of the problem due
to the Mott gap U 0 . Then, ignoring the charge degrees of
p
1
cosf 2a;s x a;s xg;
2a
p
1
sinf 2a;s x a;s xg;
Jya x
2a
Jxa x
1
Jza x p x a;s x x a;s x;
8
18
19
20
p
p
p
m2
fcos 22s x; sin 22s x; cos 22s xg;
a
p
with m2 hcos 22c xi resulting from the integration
of the gapped charge degrees of freedom in the Heisenberg
chain. Therefore, although the spin densities (16) and (17)
look similar in the bosonized language, they actually differ
in two crucial aspects. (1) While in Eq. (22) the charge
degrees of freedom are absent in the expression of the
staggered magnetization, they are still present in Eq. (21) in
p
the term cos 21c x and we need to consider them.
(2) Comparing Eqs. (16) and (17), we note a sign difference
in the staggered components. This sign is related to the
p-wave nature of the operators pj; , and is, therefore,
intimately connected to the topology of the Kondo interaction. The role of this sign turns out to be crucial in the rest
of the paper.
17
p
p
p
p
cos 21c x
N1 x
fcos 21s x; sin 21s x; cos 21s xg;
a
N2 x
16
21
22
Replacing the above results into Eq. (3), and taking the
continuum limit, the Kondo interaction becomes, in the
bosonic language,
Z
H K 2JK a
Lc
dx
X
;0 L;R
N1 x N2 x ;
J1 x J20 x
23
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Lc
J m
HK K2 2
a
Lc
p
dx cos 21c
25
26
Z
1
2
d r z cL 2 z cR 2
S0
4
X
2
2
z R z R ;
27
dxN1 x N2 x;
p
Lc
2J m
K2 2
dx cos 21c
a 0
p
p
p
cos 21s cos 22s sin 21s
p
p
p
sin 22s sin 21s sin 22s :
Z
SU G2c
d2 rO2c r G3
Z
SK GK
24
p
1= 21s 2s and 1= 21s 2s , in terms
of which the Hamiltonian becomes
d2 rO3 r;
d2 r
p OK r;
a
28
29
Ua
;
vF
G0K
JK m2 a
;
vF
30
31
p
2
cos2
21c ;
L2
32
O2c
O3
p
p
2
OK 3=2 cos 21c cos 2
L
cos 2 2 cos 2 ;
33
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cos 2 iaR L L R ;
37
cos 2 iaR L L R :
38
Z
0
Lc
3
X
p
0 0
a a
dx cos 21c 3R L
R L ;
a1
40
dG2c
3
G23 G2K ;
4
dl
34
dG3
3
G2c G3 G2K ;
4
dl
35
dGK GK 1
G2c GK G3 GK ;
4
dl
2
36
aR 0 aL 0;
41
aR Lc aL Lc :
42
43
i
K a Ja1; J a2; 0 a ;
2
44
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1c 2 ;
v1c a2
~ c v1c
H
2
Lc
dx
45
46
where U eff UJK is the renormalized Coulomb repulsion parameter and where the charge degrees of freedom
in thepfermionic
chain develop a gap m1 m1 JK
47
1
;
1
a 1; 2; 3;
48
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1
p x x:
49
In the expressionpabove,
we use Eq. (20) and the definition
50
xb :
2
51
On pthe
other hand, from the definition of x
1= 21s x 2s x and Eq. (13), the boundary condition 0 0 is obtained. Replacing these values into
Eq. (50), we obtain the following quantized values of the
magnetic moment at the left end:
1
mzT :
2
52
53
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lj<m j S i 0
Ostring limjlmj hSl e
(which are
m
well-known features of the Haldane phase [52,53,72]) in
the p-wave Kondo-Heisenberg model. In particular, note
the close relation between the Z2 topological invariant (53)
and the string-order parameter in bosonized form [see
Eq. (83) in Ref. [47]].
Furthermore, we reiterate that the model studied here can
be viewed as a nontrivial strongly correlated generalization
of the old Tamm-Shockley model [32,33]. The latter is a
prototypical one-dimensional model that exhibits a topological phase transition and it can be used to construct highdimensional topological band insulators [34]. Likewise, the
strongly correlated topological Kondo-Heisenberg model
could potentially become a building block in constructing
higher-dimensional strongly interacting topological
statesnot adiabatically connected to simple topological
band insulators. Although the physical realization of the 1D
p-wave Kondo lattice model studied here in solid-state
systems might be quite challenging, our results might have
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A. M. L. acknowledges support from National Science
Foundation-Joint Quantum Institute-Physics Frontier
Center (NSF-JQ-PFC) and from program Red de
Argentinos Investigadores y Cientcos en el Exterior
(RAICES), Argentina. A. O. D. is partially supported
by Proyecto de Investigacin Plurianual (PIP)
11220090100392 of Consejo de Investigaciones
Cientficas y Tcnicas (CONICET), Argentina. V. G. was
supported by Department of Energy-Basic Energy Sciences
(DOE-BES) DESC0001911 and Simons Foundation. The
authors would like to thank Thierry Giamarchi, Eduardo
Fradkin, Philippe Lecheminant, Edmond Orignac, Dmitry
Efimkin, Xiaopeng Li and Tigran Sedrakyan for useful
discussions and for pointing us relevant references.
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ZZ
X G Z
Z
1 X G G
2
2 2 0
0
d rhO i0
1
d rd r hO rO r i0 ;
2
Z0
2 ; a4
jrr0 j>a
a
where indices and run on 2c, 3, and K. Here,
is the scaling dimension of the operator O defined
in Eqs. (31)(33) (3 2c 2, K 32), Z0
RQ
S0 i ;i
is the generating function
if1c;g Di ; i e
of the free theory, and the mean values h i0 also
correspond to that theory. This formalism is standard in
the analysis of 1D quantum systems, and has been applied
in several previous works (see, for example, Ref. [75],
where the method is explained in detail).
The third term of the rhs in Eq. (A1) takes the same form
as the second one if we assume that for r r0 the product
of two operators fulfills the following operator product
expansion property [73,74] :
O rO
r0
O rr
2
0
r r
eiL z ei L z
A2
0 =2
2
1
i z0 L z0
0
0
ei L z
;
0
0
L
z z0 z z0 1
;
0
4 z z 4 z z0
A1
OK z; z OK z0 ; z 0
A4
1
where we define the operators O 4
z R z L [which
also appear in the z component of the product of the right and
left smooth-varying spin currents, in the first two lines in
Eq. (3.8) of Ref. [45]]. Note that these terms break the SU(2)
invariance of the model. This is a well-known feature of the
Abelian bosonization prescription, which is not explicitly
SU(2)-invariant formalism [36,37]. This means that one has
to keep track of all contributions to recover the SU(2)
invariance and, vice versa, neglecting irrelevant operators
A3
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02c G0 3 G2K ;
G
2c
8
A5
A6
3
are
where the coefficients C2c
KK CKK 3=4
extracted from Eq. (A4). The remaining coefficients are
obtained by the OPEs between the corresponding operators. Following the lines of Ref. [39], we straightforwardly
obtain
1
;
2
1
;
8
C32c 3
CK2c K
1
C2c
33 ;
1
CK3 K :
2
A7
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