Erratum: Phase diagram of the hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on a checkerboard superlattice [Phys. Rev. B 81, 064503 (2010)]
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Signature of Many-Body Localization of Phonons in Strongly Disordered Superlattices
Many-body localization (MBL) has attracted significant research attention due to its immunity to thermalization, role in logarithmic entanglement entropy growth, and opportunities to reach exotic quantum orders. However, experimental realization of MBL in solid-state systems has remained challenging. Here we report evidence of a possible phonon MBL phase in disordered GaAs/AlAs superlattices. Through grazing-incidence inelastic X-ray scattering, we observe a strong deviation of the phonon population from equilibrium in disordered samples doped with ErAs nanodots at low temperature, signaling a departure from thermalization. This behavior occurs within finite phonon energy and wavevector windows, suggesting a localization-thermalization crossover. We support our observation by proposing a theoretical model for the effective phonon Hamiltonian in disordered superlattices, and showing that it can be mapped exactly to a disordered 1D Bose-Hubbard model with a known MBL phase. The large on-site repulsion qualitatively explains the experimental findings. Furthermore, our work provides mode-resolved experimental evidence of phonon localization, potentially extending the scope of MBL to disordered solid-state systems.
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Unit-density SU(3) Fermi-Hubbard model with spin-flavor imbalance
The advent of ultracold alkaline-earth atoms in optical lattices has established a platform for investigating correlated quantum matter with SU(𝑁) symmetry, offering highly tunable model parameters that allow experiments to access phenomena that are unavailable in conventional materials. Understanding the ground-state physics of SU(𝑁) Fermi-Hubbard models away from the Heisenberg limit and from the spin-flavor balanced setting is important, as examining the flavor imbalance reveals new physics in Fermi-Hubbard models and shows how SU(𝑁) phases react to practical experimental imperfections in optical lattices. Here, in this study, mean-field phase diagrams are presented for the unit-density SU(3) Fermi-Hubbard model at two sets of flavor densities, ($\frac{1}{3}$ − 𝛿, $\frac{1}{3}$ + 𝛿, $\frac{1}{3}$) and ($\frac{1}{4}$ − 𝛿, $\frac{1}{4}$ +𝛿, $\frac{1}{2}$), with the flavor imbalance introduced as 𝛿. Novel phases are identified at moderate interaction strengths for both densities, and their robustness is investigated in the presence of flavor imbalance. Furthermore, we provide microscopic explanations of the phases found and their stability. Analysis of thermal ensembles of random mean-field solutions indicate that, at temperatures accessible in state-of-the-art cold atom experiments, some spin orders are hard for conventional scattering or local observable measurements to detect, but can be more accessible with quantum gas microscopy in optical lattice experiments. This work also shows that nesting and Mottness, intertwined in the usual SU(2) Hubbard model in stark contrast to generic materials, can be tuned in the SU(3) model and play distinct roles. The resulting phase diagrams not only deepen our understanding of SU(𝑁) Fermi-Hubbard models but also inform future experimental search for new phases.
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Static and dynamical magnetic properties of the extended Kitaev-Heisenberg model with spin vacancies
Motivated by the potential to suppress antiferromagnetic long-range order in favor of the long-sought-after Kitaev quantum spin liquid state, we study the effect of spin vacancies in the extended Kitaev-Heisenberg model. In particular, we focus on a realistic model obtained from fitting inelastic neutron scattering on α–RuCl 3 . We observe that the long-range zigzag magnetic ordered state only survives when the doping concentration is smaller than 5%. Upon further increasing the spin vacancy concentration, the ground state becomes a short-range ordered state at low temperatures. Compared with experiments, our classical solution overstabilizes the zigzag correlation in the presence of spin vacancies. Here, our theoretical results provide guidance toward interpreting inelastic neutron scattering experiments on magnetically diluted Kitaev candidate materials
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Spin-orbit density wave induced hidden topological order in URu2Si2
The conventional order parameters in quantum matters are often characterized by ‘spontaneous’ broken symmetries. However, sometimes the broken symmetries may blend with the invariant symmetries to lead to mysterious emergent phases. The heavy fermion metal URu2Si2 is one such example, where the order parameter responsible for a second-order phase transition at Th517.5 K has remained a long-standing mystery. Here we propose via ab-initio calculation and effective model that a novel spin-orbit density wave in the f-states is responsible for the hidden-order phase in URu2Si2. The staggered spin-orbit order spontaneously breaks rotational, and translational symmetries while time-reversal symmetry remains intact. Thus it is immune to pressure, but can be destroyed by magnetic field even at T 5 0 K, that means at a quantum critical point. We compute topological index of the order parameter to show that the hidden order is topologically invariant. Finally, some verifiable predictions are presented.
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Compact merons and skyrmions in thin chiral magnetic films
A meron is a controversial topological excitation because it carries just one-half of the skyrmion number. A vortex in thin magnetic films has been argued to be a half-skyrmion, i.e., a meron. We present another type of merons, investigating the two-dimensional nonlinear sigma model together with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Here, the vortex number of a meron is zero. Basic topological excitations are merons and skyrmions. They behave as if they were free particles. A prominent feature is that the topological charge density is strictly confined within compact domains. We propose an analytic approach for these compact excitations, and construct a phase diagram. It is comprised of the helix, meron, skyrmion-crystal, skyrmion-gas, and ferromagnet phases. It captures the essential nature of the experimental data recently performed in chiral magnets such as MnSi and FeCoSi thin films.
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Coexistence of strong nematic and superconducting correlations in a two-dimensional Hubbard model
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High-power phase-locked quantum cascade laser array emitting at λ ∼ 4.6 μm
A phase-locked quantum cascade laser (QCL) array consisting of one hundred elements that were integrated in parallel was achieved at λ ∼ 4.6 μm. The proposed Fraunhofer’s multiple slits diffraction model predicted and explained the far-field pattern of the phase-locked laser array. A single-lobed far-field pattern, attributed to the emission of an in-phase-like supermode, is obtained near the threshold (I{sub th}). Even at 1.5 I{sub th}, greater than 73.3% of the laser output power is concentrated in a low-divergence beam with an optical power of up to 40 W.
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A new theory for X-ray diffraction
By considering the scattering distributed throughout space, there is an intensity enhancement at the Bragg angle even when the Bragg condition is not satisfied. This leads to an alternative explanation for the diffraction from powders and small crystals. This article proposes a new theory of X-ray scattering that has particular relevance to powder diffraction. The underlying concept of this theory is that the scattering from a crystal or crystallite is distributed throughout space: this leads to the effect that enhanced scatter can be observed at the ‘Bragg position’ even if the ‘Bragg condition’ is not satisfied. The scatter from a single crystal or crystallite, in any fixed orientation, has the fascinating property of contributing simultaneously to many ‘Bragg positions’. It also explains why diffraction peaks are obtained from samples with very few crystallites, which cannot be explained with the conventional theory. The intensity ratios for an Si powder sample are predicted with greater accuracy and the temperature factors are more realistic. Another consequence is that this new theory predicts a reliability in the intensity measurements which agrees much more closely with experimental observations compared to conventional theory that is based on ‘Bragg-type’ scatter. The role of dynamical effects (extinction etc.) is discussed and how they are suppressed with diffuse scattering. An alternative explanation for the Lorentz factor is presented that is more general and based on the capture volume in diffraction space. This theory, when applied to the scattering from powders, will evaluate the full scattering profile, including peak widths and the ‘background’. The theory should provide an increased understanding of the reliability of powder diffraction measurements, and may also have wider implications for the analysis of powder diffraction data, by increasing the accuracy of intensities predicted from structural models.
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Nonlinear Phase Dynamics in a Driven Bosonic Josephson Junction
We study the collective dynamics of a driven two-mode Bose-Hubbard model in the Josephson interaction regime. The classical phase space is mixed, with chaotic and regular components, which determine the dynamical nature of the fringe visibility. For a weak off-resonant drive, where the chaotic component is small, the many-body dynamics corresponds to that of a Kapitza pendulum, with the relative phase {phi} between the condensates playing the role of the pendulum angle. Using a master equation approach we show that the modulation of the intersite potential barrier stabilizes the {phi}={pi} 'inverted pendulum' coherent state, and protects the fringe visibility.
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Demonstration of the HeRALD superfluid helium detector concept
The SPICE/HeRALD collaboration is performing research and development to enable studies of sub-GeV dark matter models using a variety of target materials. Here we report our recent progress on instrumenting a superfluid 4 He target mass with a transition-edge sensor based calorimeter to detect both atomic signals (scintillation) and 4 He quasiparticle (phonon and roton) excitations. The sensitivity of HeRALD to the critical “quantum evaporation” signal from 4 He quasiparticles requires us to block the superfluid film flow to the calorimeter. We have developed a heat-free film-blocking method employing an unoxidized Cs film, which we implemented in a prototype “HeRALD v0.1” detector of ~10 g target mass. This article reports initial studies of the atomic and quasiparticle signal channels. Here, a key result of this work is the measurement of the quantum evaporation channel’s gain of 0.15±0.01, which will enable 4 He-based dark matter experiments in the near term. With this gain the HeRALD detector reported here has an energy threshold of 145 eV at 5σ, which would be sensitive to dark matter masses down to 220 MeV/c 2 .
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Realization of a SU(2)xSU(6) System of Fermions in a Cold Atomic Gas
We report the realization of a novel degenerate Fermi mixture with an SU(2)xSU(6) symmetry in a cold atomic gas. We successfully cool the mixture of the two fermionic isotopes of ytterbium {sup 171}Yb with the nuclear spin I=1/2 and {sup 173}Yb with I=5/2 below the Fermi temperature T{sub F} as 0.46T{sub F} for {sup 171}Yb and 0.54T{sub F} for {sup 173}Yb. The same scattering lengths for different spin components make this mixture featured with the novel SU(2)xSU(6) symmetry. The nuclear spin components are separately imaged by exploiting an optical Stern-Gerlach effect. In addition, the mixture is loaded into a 3D optical lattice to implement the SU(2)xSU(6) Hubbard model. This mixture will open the door to the study of novel quantum phases such as a spinor Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-like fermionic superfluid.
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Quark ensembles with the infinite correlation length
A number of exactly integrable (quark) models of quantum field theory with the infinite correlation length have been considered. It has been shown that the standard vacuum quark ensemble—Dirac sea (in the case of the space-time dimension higher than three)—is unstable because of the strong degeneracy of a state, which is due to the character of the energy distribution. When the momentum cutoff parameter tends to infinity, the distribution becomes infinitely narrow, leading to large (unlimited) fluctuations. Various vacuum ensembles—Dirac sea, neutral ensemble, color superconductor, and BCS state—have been compared. In the case of the color interaction between quarks, the BCS state has been certainly chosen as the ground state of the quark ensemble.
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Diagram analysis of the Hubbard model: Stationarity property of the thermodynamic potential
The diagram approach proposed many years ago for the strongly correlated Hubbard model is developed with the aim to analyze the thermodynamic potential properties. A new exact relation between renormalized quantities such as the thermodynamic potential, the one-particle propagator, and the correlation function is established. This relation contains an additional integration of the one-particle propagator with respect to an auxiliary constant. The vacuum skeleton diagrams constructed from the irreducible Green's functions and tunneling propagator lines are determined and a special functional is introduced. The properties of this functional are investigated and its relation to the thermodynamic potential is established. The stationarity property of this functional with respect to first-order variations of the correlation function is demonstrated; as a consequence, the stationarity property of the thermodynamic potential is proved.
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Neuralized fermionic tensor networks for quantum many-body systems
In this work, we describe a class of neuralized fermionic tensor network states (NN-fTNSs) that introduce nonlinearity into fermionic tensor networks through configuration-dependent neural network transformations of the local tensors. The construction uses the fTNS algebra to implement a natural fermionic sign structure and is compatible with standard tensor network algorithms but gains enhanced expressivity through the neural network parametrization. Using the 1D and 2D Fermi-Hubbard models as benchmarks, we demonstrate that NN-fTNSs achieve order of magnitude improvements in the ground-state energy compared to pure fTNSs with the same bond dimension and can be systematically improved through both the tensor network bond dimension and the neural network parametrization. Compared to existing fermionic neural quantum states based on Slater determinants and Pfaffians, NN-fTNSs offer a physically motivated alternative fermionic structure. Furthermore, compared to such states, NN-fTNSs naturally exhibit improved computational scaling and we demonstrate a construction that achieves linear scaling with the lattice size.
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Competition of spinon Fermi surface and heavy Fermi liquid states from the periodic Anderson to the Hubbard model
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Kinetic Phase Transition in the Semi-infinite Spin-1 Ising Model Under a Periodically Oscillating Magnetic Field
The kinetics of the semi-infinite Ising model in the presence of a time-dependent oscillating external field is studied within the framework of the mean-field approach. We use the Glauber-type stochastic dynamics to describe the evolution time of this system. We present a variety of phase in a semi-infinite cubic ferromagnet with spin-1 in two different, planes; phase diagrams contain (BF, S {sub 1}P, SP) phase, (BF, S {sub 1}F, SP) phase, completely ordered phase (BF, S {sub 1}F, SF) and completely disordered phase (BP, S {sub 1}P, SP), which strongly depend on interaction parameters. The nature first and second orders of the transitions is characterized by studying the thermal behaviors of the dynamic magnetizations. Furthermore, the system exhibits dynamical tricritical phenomenon and the reentrant behaviors. The magnetizations and phase space trajectories are given and discussed.
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