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Topological phase transition between non-high symmetry critical phases and curvature function renormalization group
The interplay between topology and criticality has been a recent interest of
study in condensed matter physics. A unique topological transition between
certain critical phases has been observed as a consequence of the edge modes
living at criticalities. In this work, we generalize this phenomenon by
investigating possible transitions between critical phases which are non-high
symmetry in nature. We find the triviality and non-triviality of these critical
phases in terms of the decay length of the edge modes and also characterize
them using the winding numbers. The distinct non-high symmetry critical phases
are separated by multicritical points with linear dispersion at which the
winding number exhibits the quantized jump, indicating a change in the topology
(number of edge modes) at the critical phases. Moreover, we reframe the scaling
theory based on the curvature function, i.e. curvature function renormalization
group method to efficiently address the non-high symmetry criticalities and
multicriticalities. Using this we identify the conventional topological
transition between gapped phases through non-high symmetry critical points, and
also the unique topological transition between critical phases through
multicritical points. The renormalization group flow, critical exponents and
correlation function of Wannier states enable the characterization of non-high
symmetry criticalities along with multicriticalities.Comment: 12 pages + supplementary (4 pages), 13 figures. Comments are welcom
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