Emergent Carroll symmetry at phase separation in one-dimensional lattice systems

Abstract:Asymptotic behavior of generic Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in the vicinity of phase-separated regions is known to produce an instability where well-known relativistic Conformal Field Theory (CFT) techniques fail. In this paper, we introduce an analytic paradigm that provides a continuum description of this important issue. We show that there is an emergent Carrollian symmetry when phase separation is reached, and techniques of Carroll CFT, as opposed to its relativistic relative, are central to the understanding of the physics. We work with the analogous spinless fermionic system in this region and capture the transition across this phase separation. Our numerical results corroborate the density-density correlations intrinsically computed using Carroll CFT. We further test the framework in a number of lattice systems, namely the spinless and spinfull fermionic models with distinct microscopic content, and find the same scaling at the transition. We discuss the scope of the framework and broader perspective.

10 pages including supplementary material. Version published in Phys. Rev. B as a Letter

High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:2501.16426 [hep-th]

(or arXiv:2501.16426v2 [hep-th] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16426 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

Phys.Rev.B 113 (2026) 24, L241115

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