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Publications (32)

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Visualizing the chiral anomaly in Dirac and Weyl semimetals with photoemission spectroscopy

Jan Behrends, Adolfo G. Grushin, Teemu Ojanen +1

Quantum anomalies are the breaking of a classical symmetry by quantum fluctuations. They dictate how physical systems of diverse nature, ranging from fundamental particles to cryst…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Anomalous conductance scaling in strained Weyl semimetals

Jan Behrends, Roni Ilan, Jens H. Bardarson

Magnetotransport provides key experimental signatures in Weyl semimetals. The longitudinal magnetoresistance is linked to the chiral anomaly and the transversal magnetoresistance t…

hep-th2020

Symmetry classes, many-body zero modes, and supersymmetry in the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

The complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) model is a charge-conserving model of randomly interacting fermions. The interaction term can be chosen such that the model exhibits chiral sym…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Berry connection induced anomalous wave-packet dynamics in non-Hermitian systems

Navot Silberstein, Jan Behrends, Moshe Goldstein +1

Berry phases strongly affect the properties of crystalline materials, giving rise to modifications of the semiclassical equations of motion that govern wave-packet dynamics. In non…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Supersymmetry in the nonsupersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

Supersymmetry is a powerful concept in quantum many-body physics. It helps to illuminate ground state properties of complex quantum systems and gives relations between correlation…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Quantum tunneling in the presence of a topology-changing fermionic bath

Elis Roberts, Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

Coupling a quantum particle to a fermionic bath suppresses the particle's amplitude to tunnel, even at zero temperature. While this effect can generally be neglected for gapped bat…

quant-ph2026

Projected logical ensembles in surface codes via the random-matrix theory of quantum dots

Mircea Bejan, Jan Behrends, Max McGinley +1

Measurements underpin active quantum error correction (QEC) and have been recognized as a source of novel measurement-induced many-body phenomena. Here, we study the statistical pr…

quant-ph2026

Computing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-even

Shival Dasu, Matthew DeCross, Andrew Y. Guo +42

High-rate quantum error correcting (QEC) codes encode many logical qubits in a given number of physical qubits, making them promising candidates for quantum computation. Implementi…

physics.chem-ph2018

Site-selective measurement of coupled spin pairs in an organic semiconductor

Sam L. Bayliss, Leah R. Weiss, Anatol Mitioglu +14

From organic electronics to biological systems, understanding the role of intermolecular interactions between spin pairs is a key challenge. Here we show how such pairs can be sele…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Transversal magnetotransport in Weyl semimetals: Exact numerical approach

Jan Behrends, Flore K. Kunst, Björn Sbierski

Magnetotransport experiments on Weyl semimetals are essential for investigating the intriguing topological and low-energy properties of Weyl nodes. If the transport direction is pe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Nodal-line semimetals from Weyl superlattices

Jan Behrends, Jun-Won Rhim, Shang Liu +2

The existence and topological classification of lower-dimensional Fermi surfaces is often tied to the crystal symmetries of the underlying lattice systems. Artificially engineered…

quant-ph2026

Critical non-equilibrium phases from noisy topological memories

Amir-Reza Negari, Subhayan Sahu, Jan Behrends +2

We demonstrate the existence of an extended non-equilibrium critical phase, characterized by sub-exponential decay of conditional mutual information (CMI), in the surface code subj…

physics.app-ph2024

Controllable bipolaron formation unveiling structural features of trap states in organic charge transport

Zichen Wang, Ilia Kulikov, Tarig Mustafa +2

Magnetic resonance methods offer a unique chance for in-depth study of conductive organic material systems, not only accounts for number of charge carriers, but also allows manipul…

quant-ph2023

Coherent error threshold for surface codes from Majorana delocalization

Florian Venn, Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

Statistical mechanics mappings provide key insights on quantum error correction. However, existing mappings assume incoherent noise, thus ignoring coherent errors due to, e.g., spu…

quant-ph2024

Surface codes, quantum circuits, and entanglement phases

Jan Behrends, Florian Venn, Benjamin Béri

Surface codes$\unicode{x2014}$leading candidates for quantum error correction (QEC)$\unicode{x2014}$and entanglement phases$\unicode{x2014}$a key notion for many-body quantum dynam…

cond-mat.str-el2016

Bulk-boundary correspondence from the inter-cellular Zak phase

Jun-Won Rhim, Jan Behrends, Jens H. Bardarson

The Zak phase , the generalization of the Berry phase to Bloch wave functions in solids, is often used to characterize inversion-symmetric 1D topological insulators; however, s…

quant-ph2025

Statistical mechanical mapping and maximum-likelihood thresholds for the surface code under generic single-qubit coherent errors

Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

The surface code, one of the leading candidates for quantum error correction, is known to protect encoded quantum information against stochastic, i.e., incoherent errors. The prote…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev circuits for braiding and charging Majorana zero modes

Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is an all-to-all interacting Majorana fermion model for many-body quantum chaos and the holographic correspondence. Here we construct fermionic al…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024

Conductivity scaling and absence of localization in disordered nodal line semimetals

Carolina Paiva, Jan Behrends

Transport plays a key role in characterizing topological insulators and semimetals. Understanding the effect of disorder is crucial to assess the robustness of experimental signatu…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Geometric Bounds in Non-Hermitian Systems

Milosz Matraszek, Wojciech J. Jankowski, Jan Behrends

We identify quantum geometric bounds for observables in non-Hermitian systems. We find unique bounds on non-Hermitian quantum geometric tensors, generalized two-point response corr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

Direct Detection of Photoinduced Charge Transfer Complexes in Polymer:Fullerene Blends

Jan Behrends, Andreas Sperlich, Alexander Schnegg +5

We report transient electron paramagnetic resonance (trEPR) measurements with sub-microsecond time resolution performed on a P3HT:PCBM blend at low temperature. The trEPR spectrum…

cond-mat.dis-nn2019

The tenfold way and many-body zero modes in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

Jan Behrends, Jens H. Bardarson, Benjamin Béri

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, in its simplest form, describes Majorana fermions with random all-to-all four-body interactions. We consider the SYK model in the framework o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Strongly angle-dependent magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals with long-range disorder

Jan Behrends, Jens H. Bardarson

The chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals states that the left- and right-handed Weyl fermions, constituting the low energy description, are not individually conserved, resulting, for…

quant-ph2025

Quantum geometry of non-Hermitian systems

Jan Behrends, Roni Ilan, Moshe Goldstein

The Berry curvature characterizes one aspect of the geometry of quantum states. It materializes, among other consequences, as an anomalous velocity of wave packets. In non-Hermitia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Room Temperature Optically and Magnetically Active Edges in Phosphorene Nanoribbons

Arjun Ashoka, Adam J. Clancy, Naitik A. Panjwani +20

Nanoribbons - nanometer wide strips of a two-dimensional material - are a unique system in condensed matter physics. They combine the exotic electronic structures of low-dimensiona…

quant-ph2025

The surface code beyond Pauli channels: Logical noise coherence, information-theoretic measures, and errorfield-double phenomenology

Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

We consider the surface code under errors featuring both coherent and incoherent components and study the coherence of the corresponding logical noise channel and how this impacts…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

High-Spin State Dynamics and Quintet-Mediated Emission in Intramolecular Singlet Fission

Jeannine Grüne, Steph Montanaro, Thomas W. Bradbury +11

High-spin states in molecular systems hold significant interest for a wide range of applications ranging from optoelectronics to quantum information and singlet fission (SF). Quint…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Optical read and write of spin states in organic diradicals

Rituparno Chowdhury, Petri Murto, Naitik A. Panjwani +17

Optical control and read-out of the ground state spin structure has been demonstrated for defect states in crystalline semiconductors, including the diamond NV- center, and these a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Landau levels, Bardeen polynomials and Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals: the who's who of the chiral anomaly

Jan Behrends, Sthitadhi Roy, Michael H. Kolodrubetz +2

Condensed matter systems realizing Weyl fermions exhibit striking phenomenology derived from their topologically protected surface states as well as chiral anomalies induced by ele…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Second-Order Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in Rotationally Symmetric Topological Superconductors from Stacked Dirac Hamiltonians

Elis Roberts, Jan Behrends, Benjamin Béri

Two-dimensional second-order topological superconductors host zero-dimensional Majorana bound states at their boundaries. In this work, focusing on rotation-invariant crystalline t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Lock-in detection for pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance

Felix Hoehne, Lukas Dreher, Jan Behrends +7

We show that in pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance (pEDMR) signal modulation in combination with a lock-in detection scheme can reduce the low-frequency noise level by…

astro-ph.SR2013

The Post-Merger Magnetized Evolution of White Dwarf Binaries: The Double-Degenerate Channel of Sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae and the Formation of Magnetized White Dwarfs

Suoqing Ji, Robert T. Fisher, Enrique Garcia-Berro +6

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a crucial role as standardizable cosmological candles, though the nature of their progenitors is a subject of active investigation. Recent observat…