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cond-mat.str-el2014★ 41 cited

Direct characterization of photo-induced lattice dynamics in BaFe2As2

S. Gerber, K. W. Kim, Y. Zhang +21

Ultrafast light pulses can modify the electronic properties of quantum materials by perturbing the underlying, intertwined degrees of freedom. In particular, iron-based superconduc…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 59 cited

Interactions along an Entanglement Cut in 2+1D Abelian Topological Phases

Jennifer Cano, Taylor L. Hughes, Michael Mulligan

A given fractional quantum Hall state may admit multiple, distinct edge phases on its boundary. We explore the implications that multiple edge phases have for the entanglement spec…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 103 cited

Fermion-sign-free Majarana-quantum-Monte-Carlo studies of quantum critical phenomena of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Zi-Xiang Li, Yi-Fan Jiang, Hong Yao

Quantum critical phenomena may be qualitatively different when massless Dirac fermions are present at criticality. Using our recently-discovered fermion-sign-free Majorana quantum…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 83 cited

Variational Monte Carlo study of chiral spin liquid in the extended Heisenberg model on the Kagome lattice

Wen-Jun Hu, Wei Zhu, Yi Zhang +3

We investigate the extended Heisenberg model on the Kagome lattice by using Gutzwiller projected fermionic states and the variational Monte Carlo technique. In particular, when bot…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 136 cited

Distinguishing bulk and surface electron-phonon coupling in the topological insulator Bi2Se3 using time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Jonathan A. Sobota, Shuolong Yang, Dominik Leuenberger +6

We report time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements on the topological insulator Bi2Se3. We observe oscillatory modulations of the electronic structure of bo…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 88 cited

Wave vector dependent electron-phonon coupling drives charge-density-wave formation in TbTe3

M. Maschek, S. Rosenkranz, R. Heid +4

We present a high energy-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering investigation of the soft phonon mode in the charge-density-wave system TbTe. We analyze our data based on lattic…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 2 cited

Enhanced Pairing of Quantum Critical Metals Near d=3+1

A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Shamit Kachru, Jared Kaplan +3

We study the dynamics of a quantum critical boson coupled to a Fermi surface in intermediate energy regimes where the Landau damping of the boson can be parametrically controlled,…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 31 cited

Aspects of Renormalization in Finite Density Field Theory

A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Gonzalo Torroba, Huajia Wang

We study the renormalization of the Fermi surface coupled to a massless boson near three spatial dimensions. For this, we set up a Wilsonian RG with independent decimation procedur…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 68 cited

Constraints on topological order in Mott Insulators

Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath

We point out certain symmetry induced constraints on topological order in Mott Insulators (quantum magnets with an odd number of spin per unit cell). We show, for ex…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 48 cited

A balancing act: Evidence for a strong subdominant d-wave pairing channel in

T. Böhm, A. F. Kemper, B. Moritz +7

We present an analysis of the Raman spectra of optimally doped based on LDA band structure calculations and the subsequent estimation of effective R…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 17 cited

Notes on Constraints for the Observation of Polar Kerr Effect in Complex Materials

Aharon Kapitulnik

While Kerr effect has been used extensively for the study of magnetic materials, it is only recently that its has shown to be a powerful tool for the study of more complex quantum…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 49 cited

X-ray spectroscopic study of BaFeO thin films; an Fe ferromagnetic insulator

T. Tsuyama, T. Matsuda, S. Chakraverty +7

We investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of fully oxidized BaFeO3 thin films, which show ferromagnetic-insulating properties with cubic crystal structure, by hard x-r…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 192 cited

Solving fermion sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo by Majorana representation

Zi-Xiang Li, Yi-Fan Jiang, Hong Yao

In this paper, we discover a new quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to solve the fermion sign problem in interacting fermion models by employing Majorana representation of complex fe…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 333 cited

Time-evolving a matrix product state with long-ranged interactions

Michael P. Zaletel, Roger S. K. Mong, Christoph Karrasch +2

We introduce a numerical algorithm to simulate the time evolution of a matrix product state under a long-ranged Hamiltonian. In the effectively one-dimensional representation of a…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 17 cited

Tensor Network Implementation of Bulk Entanglement Spectrum

Timothy H. Hsieh, Liang Fu, Xiao-Liang Qi

Many topologically nontrivial states of matter possess gapless degrees of freedom on the boundary, and when these boundary states delocalize into the bulk, a phase transition occur…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 150 cited

Emergent space-time supersymmetry in 3D Weyl and 2D Dirac semimetals

Shao-Kai Jian, Yi-Fan Jiang, Hong Yao

Supersymmetry (SUSY) interchanges bosons and fermions but no direct evidences of it have been revealed in nature yet. In this letter, we observe that fluctuating pair density waves…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 32 cited

Crisscrossed stripe order from interlayer tunneling in hole-doped cuprates

Akash V. Maharaj, Pavan Hosur, S. Raghu

Motivated by recent observations of charge order in the pseudogap regime of hole-doped cuprates, we show that {\it crisscrossed} stripe order can be stabilized by coherent, momentu…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 46 cited

Quantum critical metals in dimensions

Gonzalo Torroba, Huajia Wang

We study the quantum theory of a Fermi surface coupled to a gapless boson scalar in spacetime dimensions as a simple model for non-Fermi liquids (NFL) near a quantum phase…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 64 cited

Evidence for a nematic component to the Hidden Order parameter in URu2Si2 from differential elastoresistance measurements

Scott C. Riggs, M. C. Shapiro, Akash V. Maharaj +6

Measurements of the differential elastoresistance of URuSi reveal that the fluctuations associated with the 17 K Hidden Order phase transition have a nematic component. App…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 78 cited

Layer construction of 3D topological states and string braiding statistics

Chao-Ming Jian, Xiao-Liang Qi

While the topological order in two dimensions has been studied extensively since the discover of the integer and fractional quantum Hall systems, topological states in 3 spatial di…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 140 cited

Time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity in doped Weyl semimetals

Pavan Hosur, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang +1

Time-reversal invariant topological superconductors are a new state of matter which have a bulk superconducting gap and robust Majorana fermion surface states. These have not yet b…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 45 cited

Generalized Kitaev Models and Slave Genons

Maissam Barkeshli, Hong-Chen Jiang, Ronny Thomale +1

We present a wide class of partially integrable lattice models with two-spin interactions, which generalize the Kitaev honeycomb model. These models have an infinite number of cons…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 466 cited

Theory of universal incoherent metallic transport

Sean A. Hartnoll

In an incoherent metal, transport is controlled by the collective diffusion of energy and charge rather than by quasiparticle or momentum relaxation. We explore the possibility of…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 38 cited

Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy Study on the Surface States of the Correlated Topological Insulator YbB6

M. Xia, J. Jiang, Z. R. Ye +10

We report the electronic structure of YbB6, a recently predicted moderately correlated topological insulator, measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We directly obs…