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Topology meets superconductivity in a one-dimensional $t-J$ model of magnetic atoms

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Pith's one-line read A one-dimensional t-J model of magnetic atoms can realize a topological triplet superconductor.

desk verdict A new lanthanide t-J realization with a mostly convincing phase diagram; the TTS claim needs a zero-field, large-L check and the temperature estimate is off by orders of magnitude. read the letter →

arxiv 2509.03387 v2 pith:Y7IRO2FD submitted 2025-09-03 cond-mat.quant-gas cond-mat.str-elquant-ph

classification cond-mat.quant-gascond-mat.str-elquant-ph
keywords t-Jmodelmagneticlanthanideatomstopologicaltripletsuperconductorsymmetry-protectedorderbosonizationDMRGopticallatticedipolarinteractions
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The reading

This paper proposes a concrete way to realize a strongly interacting fermionic t-J model in a one-dimensional optical lattice of magnetic lanthanide atoms, where hopping, onsite interaction, and spin-exchange coupling can be tuned independently. The central claim is that for attractive onsite interactions combined with a positive spin-flip coupling, the ground state becomes a topological triplet superconductor: symmetry-protected topological order—witnessed by string order, edge magnetization, and even entanglement-spectrum degeneracy—coexists with dominant triplet superconducting correlations. If correct, the setup would give cold-atom experiments access to phases that have so far been out of reach: one-dimensional superconductors, a topological liquid, and a phase where topology and superconductivity are intertwined. The derivation relies on the large total spin of erbium and dysprosium to amplify the spin-flip exchange relative to the Ising term, making the effective spin-1/2 model anisotropic and not limited to strong repulsion.

What carries the argument

The object that carries the argument is the derived Hamiltonian H_t-J: a spin-1/2 fermionic t-J model in which the spin-flip coupling J⊥=(1/4)γV is boosted by the large total angular momentum of erbium or dysprosium, while the Ising coupling Jz remains small, explicitly breaking SU(2) symmetry and allowing doubly occupied sites. The analysis then pairs two tools: a bosonization/Sine-Gordon mapping, which determines when the spin field pins—ϕs=0 giving parity order and ϕs=±√(π/8) giving string order—and when Kc>1 signals superconducting correlations; and DMRG simulations, which compute the spin gap, the string and parity correlators, edge magnetization, and entanglement-spectrum degeneracy to

What would settle it

In a chain of erbium or dysprosium atoms at n̄≈0.5, U/t≈-1.5, and J⊥/t≈1.25, measure the spin-resolved site occupancy; the topological-triplet-superconductor claim is settled if the string correlator does not saturate to a finite value at long distance, if no edge magnetization appears, or if the triplet pairing correlator does not decay more slowly than the singlet, charge-density-wave, and spin-density-wave correlators. Alternatively, a calculation including the neglected Jz term in the same parameter region should preserve the coexisting order; if it destroys it, the approximation is load-b

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper derives a generalized spin-1/2 t-J model for magnetic lanthanides in a one-dimensional optical lattice, with the spin-flip coupling J⊥ enhanced by the large total angular momentum (γ≈100 for erbium and 121 for dysprosium) so that the Ising coupling Jz can be neglected and double occupancy is not suppressed. The central finding is that for attractive onsite interaction U<0 and J⊥>-U/2 at density n̄≈0.5, the ground state simultaneously develops long-range string order, finite edge magnetization, even entanglement-spectrum degeneracy, and dominant triplet-superconducting correlations CTS(r); the paper identifies this coexistence as a topological triplet superconducto

Load-bearing premise

The prediction depends on the spin-selective light-shift technique confining the atoms to the mF=±1/2 pair and on the enhanced spin-flip coupling J⊥ being so much larger than the Ising term Jz that Jz can be neglected; if either condition is not met in the dense one-dimensional lattice, the claimed phase diagram does not describe the realized system.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • At n̄=0.5, U/t≈-1.5, and J⊥/t≈1.25, the ground state of H_t-J is a topological triplet superconductor with string order, edge magnetization, even entanglement-spectrum degeneracy, and dominant triplet-pairing correlations.
  • The same model hosts a topological liquid, a local singlet superconductor, an extended singlet superconductor, a Luther-Emery liquid, a Luttinger liquid, and a gapless Luttinger triplet superconductor across its phase diagram.
  • The required temperature scale T/t≲0.2 lies within reach of existing ultracold-atom entropy-control experiments, making the predicted phases realistic to access.
  • Unlike the Kitaev chain, the proposed topological triplet superconductor conserves particle number and has massless edge states, which may make it less demanding to realize and probe.
  • The paper's preparation and single-site spin-and-density detection protocol would allow direct measurement of the string correlator, edge magnetization, and the Luttinger parameter Kc.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A direct numerical test would include the neglected Ising term Jz and longer-range dipolar tails; if the topological-triplet-superconductor region survives small Jz, the phase would be robust to imperfect spin projection and the observable parameter window would widen.
  • The role of double occupancy could be isolated experimentally by comparing a U/t→+∞ realization, where the paper finds no topological phases, with the attractive regime; this would test the claim that the topological triplet superconductor is interaction-induced by finite doublon density.
  • Because the edge states are predicted to be massless, measuring the local excitation spectrum near the edges could distinguish this phase from a Kitaev-like topological superconductor with massive Majorana edge modes.
  • Mapping the same phase boundaries with an independent probe of the spin gap, such as local spin-flip spectroscopy, would provide a finite-temperature check of the T/t≲0.2 requirement.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a cold-atom realization of a spin-1/2 t-J model using ultracold magnetic lanthanide atoms (Er, Dy) in a 1D optical lattice, obtained by projecting the large-F dipolar Hamiltonian onto mF=±1/2 via spin-selective quadratic light shifts. The model has independently tunable hopping t, onsite interaction U, and anisotropic spin-flip coupling J_perp. Using bosonization, the authors map the weak-coupling regime to a sine-Gordon model and predict several phases: Luttinger liquid, Luther-Emery liquid, extended/local singlet superconductors, a topological liquid, a Luttinger triplet superconductor, and a topological triplet superconductor (TTS). DMRG calculations (L=240, bond dimension up to 800) are used to map the phase diagram and to identify the TTS phase for U<0 and J_perp>0 through string order, edge magnetization, entanglement-spectrum degeneracy, and dominant triplet-pair correlations. The paper also provides concrete experimental parameters and a state preparation/detection protocol.

Significance. If the TTS coexistence claim is correct, this is a significant result: it would provide a realistic, tunable cold-atom platform for interaction-induced topological superconductivity, going beyond alkaline-atom t-J models and previous dipolar proposals. The bosonization treatment is standard, the DMRG calculations use a respectable bond dimension and multiple diagnostics, and the Table I parameters plus the proposed detection scheme make the proposal concrete and falsifiable. The main caveat is that the numerical evidence for the central TTS phase is not yet quantitatively conclusive: the topological diagnostics are shown at a single system size with an applied edge field, and the correlation-function dominance is assessed at a single distance rather than through extracted exponents.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods: Details on the DMRG analysis; Figs. 4(c,d) and 5(c,d)] The SPT identification uses edge magnetization |<S^z_L>| computed in the presence of an applied edge field mu=±0.01. Finite edge magnetization is not by itself a topological diagnostic, because any gapped phase with open boundaries is polarized by a boundary field. The even entanglement-spectrum degeneracy xi=0 is a stronger diagnostic, but it is reported only at L=240 and at this nonzero mu. Please provide a mu→0 extrapolation at fixed L and an L→∞ extrapolation at fixed mu (or at mu=0) for xi in both the TL and TTS regions. Without this, the coexistence claim at the center of the paper is not quantitatively established.
  2. [Results, 'Strongly interacting...' and Methods, 'Decay of correlation functions'; Figs. 3, 4, 5] Phase assignments are based on comparing 'asymptotic' correlator values at a single distance r=162 within a central window of L=240. For gapless power-law correlators, the largest value at r=162 does not determine asymptotic dominance: a correlator with a smaller prefactor but slower decay exponent can dominate at larger r. Please extract decay exponents from log-log fits, or provide finite-size scaling of crossing points, especially for CTS versus CLSS/CSDW in Fig. 5(e) and Fig. 9(b). This is required to support the statement that triplet superconducting correlations are dominant in the TTS phase.
  3. [Figs. 4(b), 5(b) and string order] The long-range order of the string correlator O_S^s(r) is inferred from one value at r=162 at L=240. This should be supported by showing saturation with r and evolution with L, and ideally combined with the mu→0 check. Because the TTS phase is defined by coexistence of this SPT order with dominant triplet pairing, this finite-size evidence is load-bearing rather than merely presentational.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Methods, Eq. (22)] The bosonization expansion appears to have a typo: the second term should involve the left-moving field Psi_Lsigma(x), not Psi_Rsigma(x).
  2. [Eqs. (14) and (15)] The correlation functions are written with a comma inside the expectation value: <O†_TS(i), O_TS(i+r)>. For consistency with Eq. (13), the comma should be removed.
  3. [Fig. 5 caption] The sentence 'In all panels we set J⊥/t = 1.25, density n̄ = 1/2 and chain length L = 240' is repeated twice in the caption.
  4. [References] Reference 70 duplicates reference 61 (same arXiv:2505.17009). One of the two should be removed or the citation should be consolidated.
  5. [Methods, 'Decay of correlation functions'] The phrase 'central r = 162 sites' is ambiguous: it could mean the central 162 sites or a distance r=162 from the center. Please clarify the convention.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the parameters are independently computed, the phase assignments are not fitted to the target order parameters, and the central TTS claim is cross-checked by DMRG diagnostics that do not reduce to the model inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is not circular. The t–J Hamiltonian (Eq. 2) is obtained from the dipolar Hamiltonian (Eq. 1) by a spin-space projection, with the enhancement factor γ computed from angular-momentum algebra (Methods, Eq. 21) and the experimental parameters (t, U, J⊥) obtained from Wannier-function integrals (Eqs. 16–20, Table I), not from the target phases. The bosonization analysis uses standard identities for the parity and string correlators (Eqs. 6–9), and the phase boundaries are determined by the sign of the mass term gs and the Luttinger parameter Kc, which are derived from U and J⊥. The DMRG simulations independently compute spin gaps, correlators, edge magnetization, and entanglement-spectrum degeneracy; the phase labels are not obtained by fitting the same quantities that define the phases. The self-citations (e.g., refs 44, 46, 47, 62) provide prior bosonization results and earlier predictions of similar phases, but the present central claim—coexistence of string order and dominant triplet superconductivity in the U<0, J⊥>0 region—is supported by the numerical DMRG data in Fig. 5, so the self-citations are not load-bearing in the sense of forcing the result. The applied edge field μ=±0.01 and the finite-size central-window analysis are legitimate correctness caveats (boundary artifacts could affect edge-magnetization diagnostics), but they are not circularity: the topological identification is also based on the even entanglement-spectrum degeneracy and on string-order long-range order, which are independent of the edge-field perturbation. Similarly, the reliance on spin-selective light shifts (refs 28, 34) is an experimental applicability assumption, not a circular theoretical step. No fitted input is renamed as a prediction, and no uniqueness claim is imported solely from the authors' prior work.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The model rests on these domain assumptions and standard field-theoretic tools. No free parameters are fitted to the target phases; control parameters are scanned numerically. No invented entities are introduced.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Spin-selective quadratic light shifts can isolate the mF = +/-1/2 subspace and suppress all other spin states without relevant losses.
    Used to project the large-spin dipolar Hamiltonian (1) to the spin-1/2 t-J model Eq. (2); cited to refs 28 and 34, but not demonstrated for the specific lattice parameters in Table I.
  • domain assumption The Ising term Jz is negligible compared to J_perp.
    J_perp = (1/4) gamma V with gamma about F(F+1)+1/4 (about 100 to 121), so Jz = V/4 is dropped; this underpins the SU(2)-broken model used in bosonization and DMRG.
  • domain assumption Dipolar spin-spin interactions are well approximated by 1/|i-j|^3 up to third neighbors, with relative error below 4% for Dy and assumed similar for Er.
    Methods section; justifies truncating long-range coupling in DMRG to third nearest neighbor.
  • standard math Standard bosonization dictionary and RG flow for the Sine-Gordon model are valid.
    Used to derive Kc_s, gs, pinning values, and phase boundaries in the low-energy analysis.
  • domain assumption DMRG at L=240, bond dimension 800 approximates the thermodynamic limit, and central r=162 correlations are asymptotic.
    Methods section; not backed by finite-size scaling data.

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abstract

Strongly interacting fermions represent the key constituent of several intriguing phases of matter. However, due to the inherent complexity of these systems, important regimes are still inaccessible. Here, we derive a realistic and flexible setup based on ultracold magnetic lanthanide atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Leveraging their large magnetic moments, we design a fermionic $t-J$ model with independently tunable hopping, spin-spin couplings, and onsite interaction. Through combined analytical and numerical analysis, we uncover a variety of many-body quantum phases$-$including superconducting and topological states. Crucially, in the regime of attractive onsite interaction we reveal that topology and superconductivity coexist, thus giving rise to an exotic state of matter: a topological triplet superconductor. We also outline a practical protocol to prepare and detect all discovered phases using current experimental techniques. Our results establish an alternative and powerful route for a deeper understanding of strongly interacting fermionic quantum matter.

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