Symmetry protection of topological phase
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Pollmann, Frank; Berg, Erez; Turner, Ari M.; Oshikawa, Masaki
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Article
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2012
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The American Physical Society
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English
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We discuss the characterization and stability of the Haldane phase in integer spin chains on the basis of simple, physical arguments. We find that an odd-S Haldane phase is a topologically nontrivial phase which is protected by any one of the following three global symmetries: (i) the dihedral group