Lieb-Schultz-Mattis constraints for hyperbolic lattices

Abstract:The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem and its higher-dimensional extensions forbid the existence of a unique, symmetric, and gapped ground state at fractional fillings in quantum many-body systems with a conserved particle number (or spin angular momentum) and the conventional translation symmetry of Euclidean lattices. In this work, we propose a generalization of the LSM theorem to quantum many-body systems on hyperbolic lattices, i.e., regular tessellations of two-dimensional negatively curved space. By leveraging concepts from hyperbolic band theory in a many-body setting, we adapt Oshikawa's flux-threading argument to periodic hyperbolic lattices with a non-Euclidean (Fuchsian) translation symmetry and compute a lower-bound to the ground-state degeneracy as a function of filling and lattice geometry. We explore the consequences of LSM constraints for gapped phases of hyperbolic quantum matter and suggest frustrated spin models on hyperbolic analogs of the square and triangular lattices as promising platforms for realizing symmetric spin liquids in hyperbolic space.

20 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. v2: version published as PRB Editors' Suggestion

Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:2605.15974 [cond-mat.str-el]

(or arXiv:2605.15974v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.15974 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

Phys. Rev. B 114, 245110 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1103/cdsy-56yy Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources

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