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SUMMARY:"Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem and its generalizations from the Persp
	ective of the Symmetry Protected Topological Phase"
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Cenke Xu \, University of California - Santa Barbara\
	nHosted by: Anders Sandvik\n\nPart of the Condensed Matter Theory Seminar S
	eries.\n\nWe ask whether a local Hamiltonian with a featureless (fully gapp
	ed and\nnondegenerate) ground state could exist in certain quantum spin sys
	tems. \nWe address this question by mapping the vicinity of certain quantum
	 critical point (or gapless phase) of the d−dimensional spin system under
	 study to the boundary of a (d+1)−dimensional bulk state\, and the lattic
	e symmetry of the spin system acts as an on-site symmetry in the field theo
	ry that describes both the selected critical point of the spin system\, and
	 the corresponding boundary state of the (d+1)−dimensional bulk. If the c
	orresponding bulk state is a trivial state instead of a bosonic symmetry pr
	otected topological (SPT) state\, then a featureless ground state of the sp
	in system is allowed; if the corresponding bulk state is indeed a nontrivia
	l SPT state\, then it likely excludes the existence of a featureless ground
	 state of the spin system. From this perspective we identify the spin syste
	ms with SU(N) and SO(N) symmetries on one\, two and three dimensional latti
	ces that permit a featureless ground state. We also verify our conclusions 
	by other methods\, including an explicit construction of these featureless 
	spin states.
LOCATION:SCI 328\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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