Commensurate and incommensurate states of topological quantum matter
Commensurate and incommensurate states of topological quantum matter
We prove numerically and by dualities the existence of modulated, commensurate and incommensurate states of topological quantum matter in systems of parafermions, motivated by recent proposals for the realization of such systems in mesoscopic arrays. In two space dimensions, we obtain the simplest representative of a topological universality class that …