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cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 8 cited

Engineering Topological quantum dot through planar magnetization in bismuthene

Jiaojiao Zhou, Tong Zhou, Shu-guang Cheng +2

The discovery of quantum spin Hall materials with huge bulk gaps in experiment, such as bismuthene, provides a versatile platform for topological devices. We propose a topological…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 99 cited

Doping Induced Second Harmonic Generation in Centrosymmetric Graphene from Quadrupole Response

Yu Zhang, Di Huang, Yuwei Shan +8

For centrosymmetric materials such as monolayer graphene, no optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is generally expected because it is forbidden under the electric-dipole approx…

cond-mat.soft2018

Relationship between Characteristic Lengths and Effective Saffman Length in Colloidal Monolayers near a Water-Oil Interface

Na Li, Wei Zhang, Wei Chen

The hydrodynamic interactions (HIs) in colloidal monolayers are strongly influenced by the boundary conditions and can be directly described in terms of the cross-correlated diffus…

hep-th2018★ 15 cited

Schwinger effect of a relativistic boson entangled with a qubit

Yujie Li, Yu Shi

We use the concept of quantum entanglement to analyze the Schwinger effect on an entangled state of a qubit and a bosonic mode coupled with the electric field. As a consequence of…

quant-ph2018★ 17 cited

Spatial multiplexing of squeezed light by coherence diffusion

Jian Sun, Weizhi Qu, Eugeniy Mikhailov +3

Spatially splitting nonclassical light beams is in principle prohibited due to noise contamination during beam splitting. We propose a platform based on thermal motion of atoms to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 228 cited

Ferromagnetic van der Waals crystal VI3

Shangjie Tian, Jian-Feng Zhang, Chenghe Li +5

We report structural, physical properties and electronic structure of van der Waals (vdW) crystal VI3. Detailed analysis reveals that VI3 exhibits a structural transition from mono…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 14 cited

Upper branch magnetism in quantum magnets: Collapses of excited levels and emergent selection rules

Changle Liu, Fei Ye Li, Gang Chen

In many quantum magnets especially the rare-earth ones, the low-lying crystal field states are not well separated from the excited ones and thus are insufficient to describe the lo…

quant-ph2018★ 39 cited

Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm Design using Reinforcement Learning

Jian Lin, Zhong Yuan Lai, Xiaopeng Li

Quantum algorithm design plays a crucial role in exploiting the computational advantage of quantum devices. Here we develop a deep-reinforcement-learning based approach for quantum…

hep-th2018★ 12 cited

Wilson line networks in -adic AdS/CFT

Ling-Yan Hung, Wei Li, Charles M. Melby-Thompson

The -adic AdS/CFT is a holographic duality based on the -adic number field . For a -adic CFT living on and with complex-valued fields, the bul…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 17 cited

Single-hole wave function in two dimensions: A case study of the doped Mott insulator

Shuai Chen, Qing-Rui Wang, Yang Qi +2

We study a ground-state ansatz for the single-hole doped - model in two dimensions via a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method. Such a single-hole wave function possesses fini…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 4 cited

Logarithmic Upturn in Low-Temperature Electronic Transport as a Signature of d-Wave Order in Cuprate Superconductors

Xiaoqing Zhou, D. C. Peets, Benjamin Morgan +12

In cuprate superconductors, high magnetic fields have been used extensively to suppress superconductivity and expose the underlying normal state. Early measurements revealed insula…

gr-qc2018★ 3 cited

Kinetic Spin Decoherence in a Gravitational Field

Yue Dai, Yu Shi

We consider a wave packet of a spin-1/2 particle in a gravitational field, the effect of which can be described in terms of a succession of local inertial frames. It is shown that…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Towards the growth of single-crystal boron nitride monolayer on Cu

Li Wang, Xiaozhi Xu, Leining Zhang +21

Atom-layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), with excellent stability, flat surface and large bandgap, has been reported to be the best 2D insulator to open up the great possibiliti…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 29 cited

Multigap nodeless superconductivity in CsCa2Fe4As4F2 probed by heat transport

Y. Y. Huang, Z. C. Wang, Y. J. Yu +5

Recently, a new family of iron-based superconductors called 12442 was discovered and the muon spin relaxation (SR) measurements on KCaFeAsF and CsCaFeAs$…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 356 cited

Interplay between Kitaev interaction and single ion anisotropy in ferromagnetic CrI and CrGeTe monolayers

Changsong Xu, Junsheng Feng, Hongjun Xiang +1

Magnetic anisotropy is crucially important for the stabilization of two-dimensional (2D) magnetism, which is rare in nature but highly desirable in spintronics and for advancing fu…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 23 cited

Geometrically asymmetric optical cavity for strong atom-photon coupling

Akio Kawasaki, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +11

Optical cavities are widely used to enhance the interaction between atoms and light. Typical designs using a geometrically symmetric structure in the near-concentric regime face a…

quant-ph2018★ 168 cited

Measurements with prediction and retrodiction on the collective spin of 10^{11} atoms beat the standard quantum limit

Han Bao, Junlei Duan, Xingda Lu +10

Quantum probes using uncorrelated particles give a limit on the measurement sensitivity referred to as the standard quantum limit (SQL). The SQL, however, can be overcome by ex…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 2 cited

Generalized effective-potential Landau theory for the two-dimensional extended Bose-Hubbard model

Zhi Lin, Ming Yang

We analytically study the quantum phase diagrams of ultracold dipolar Bose gases in an optical square lattice at zero temperature by using the generalized effective-potential Landa…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 17 cited

Revisiting the Dipole Model for a Thermal Infrared Near-Field Spectroscope

Florian Herz, Zhenghua An, Susumu Komiyama +1

We determine the scattered near-field and directly emitted power of a heated spherical nanoparticle above a sample within the framework of fluctuational electrodynamics using the d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 22 cited

Realizing Magnetoelectric Coupling with Hydroxide as a Knob

J. Y. Ni, P. S. Wang, J. L. Lu +1

Materials with a coexistence of magnetic and ferroelectric order (i.e., multiferroics) provide an efficient route for the control of magnetism by electric fields. Unfortunately, a…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 23 cited

Evidence of nodal gap structure in the basal plane of the FeSe superconductor

Pabitra K. Biswas, Andreas Kreisel, Qisi Wang +7

Identifying the symmetry of the wave function describing the Cooper pairs is pivotal in understanding the origin of high-temperature superconductivity in iron-based superconductors…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Possible High TC Layered Ferromagnetic Insulator Sr2NiRuO4: An ab initio Study

Ke Yang, Feng-Ren Fan, Alessandro Stroppa +1

Magnetic insulators are often antiferromagnetic (AFM) and layered AFM compounds usually show low ordering temperature. On the other hand, layered ferromagnetic (FM) insulators with…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 266 cited

Skyrmions in the moiré of van der Waals 2D magnets

Qingjun Tong, Fei Liu, Jiang Xiao +1

We explore the skyrmion formation and control possibilities in 2D magnets from the ubiquitous moiré pattern in vdW heterostructures. Using the example of a ferromagnetic monolayer…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 41 cited

Origin of topologically trivial states and topological phase transitions in low-buckled plumbene

Yue Li, Jiayong Zhang, Bao Zhao +2

Combining tight-binding (TB) models with first-principles calculations, we investigate electronic and topological properties of plumbene. Different from the other two-dimensional (…