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cond-mat.str-el2012★ 47 cited

Photoemission evidence for crossover from Peierls-like to Mott-like transition in highly strained VO

J. Laverock, A. R. H. Preston, D. Newby +8

We present a spectroscopic study that reveals that the metal-insulator transition of strained VO thin films may be driven towards a purely electronic transition, which does not…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 11 cited

Networks of quantum wire junctions: a system with quantized integer Hall resistance without vanishing longitudinal resistivity

Jaime Medina, Dmitry Green, Claudio Chamon

We consider a honeycomb network built of quantum wires, with each node of the network having a Y-junction of three wires with a ring through which flux can be inserted. The junctio…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 13 cited

Correlated valence-bond states

Yu-Cheng Lin, Ying Tang, Jie Lou +1

We study generalizations of the singlet-sector amplitude-product (AP) states in the valence-bond basis of S=1/2 quantum spin systems. In the standard AP states, the weight of a til…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 14 cited

Magnetic translation algebra with or without magnetic field in the continuum or on arbitrary Bravais lattices in any dimension

Claudio Chamon, Christopher Mudry

The magnetic translation algebra plays an important role in the quantum Hall effect. Murthy and Shankar, arXiv:1207.2133, have shown how to realize this algebra using fermionic bil…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 74 cited

Enhancing the stability of a fractional Chern insulator against competing phases

Adolfo G. Grushin, Titus Neupert, Claudio Chamon +1

We construct a two-band lattice model whose bands can carry the Chern numbers C=0,pm1,pm2. By means of numerical exact diagonalization, we show that the most favorable situation th…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 18 cited

Elementary formula for the Hall conductivity of interacting systems

Titus Neupert, Luiz Santos, Claudio Chamon +1

A formula for the Hall conductivity of interacting electrons is given under the assumption that the ground state manifold is N_gs-fold degenerate and discrete translation symmetry…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 33 cited

Junctions of multiple quantum wires with different Luttinger parameters

Chang-Yu Hou, Armin Rahmani, Adrian E. Feiguin +1

Within the framework of boundary conformal field theory, we evaluate the conductance of stable fixed points of junctions of two and three quantum wires with different Luttinger par…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 128 cited

Bridging lattice-scale physics and continuum field theory with quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Ribhu K. Kaul, Roger G. Melko, Anders W. Sandvik

We discuss designer Hamiltonians---lattice models tailored to be free from sign problems ("de-signed") when simulated with quantum Monte Carlo methods but which still host complex…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 32 cited

Strain dependence of bonding and hybridization across the metal-insulator transition of VO2

J. Laverock, L. F. J. Piper, A. R. H. Preston +8

Soft x-ray spectroscopy is used to investigate the strain dependence of the metal-insulator transition of VO2. Changes in the strength of the V 3d - O 2p hybridization are observed…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 7 cited

Antiferromagnetic order in systems with doublet ground states

Sambuddha Sanyal, Argha Banerjee, Kedar Damle +1

We use projector Quantum Monte-Carlo methods to study the doublet ground states of two dimensional antiferromagnets on a square lattice with…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 68 cited

Noncommutative geometry for three-dimensional topological insulators

Titus Neupert, Luiz Santos, Shinsei Ryu +2

We generalize the noncommutative relations obeyed by the guiding centers in the two-dimensional quantum Hall effect to those obeyed by the projected position operators in three-dim…

cond-mat.str-el2012★ 72 cited

Finite-size scaling and boundary effects in two-dimensional valence-bond-solids

Anders W. Sandvik

Various lattice geometries and boundaries are used to investigate valence-bond-solid (VBS) ordering in the ground state of an S=1/2 square-lattice quantum spin model---the J-Q mode…