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cond-mat.str-el2016★ 16 cited

Coupled spin-1/2 ladders as microscopic models for non-Abelian chiral spin liquids

Po-Hao Huang, Jyong-Hao Chen, Adrain E. Feiguin +2

We construct a two-dimensional (2D) lattice model that is argued to realize a gapped chiral spin liquid with (Ising) non-Abelian topological order. The building blocks are spin-1/2…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 49 cited

The amplitude mode in three-dimensional dimerized antiferromagnets

Yan Qi Qin, Bruce Normand, Anders Sandvik +1

The amplitude (Higgs) mode is a ubiquitous collective excitation related to spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry. We combine quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations with sto…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 42 cited

Level spectroscopy in a two-dimensional quantum magnet: Linearly dispersing spinons at the deconfined quantum critical point

Hidemaro Suwa, Arnab Sen, Anders W. Sandvik

We study the level structure of excitations at the "deconfined" critical point separating antiferromagnetic and valence-bond-solid phases in two-dimensional quantum spin systems us…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 78 cited

Electrons at the monkey saddle: a multicritical Lifshitz point

Alex Shtyk, Garry Goldstein, Claudio Chamon

We consider 2D interacting electrons at a monkey saddle with dispersion . Such a dispersion naturally arises at the multicritical Lifshitz point when three…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 8 cited

D-wave superconductivity in boson+fermion dimer models

Garry Goldstein, Claudio Chamon, Claudio Castelnovo

We present a slave-particle mean-field study of the mixed boson+fermion quantum dimer model introduced by Punk, Allais, and Sachdev [PNAS 112, 9552 (2015)] to describe the physics…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 257 cited

Quantum criticality with two length scales

Hui Shao, Wenan Guo, Anders W. Sandvik

The theory of deconfined quantum critical points describes phase transitions at temperature T = 0 outside the standard paradigm, predicting continuous transformations between certa…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 36 cited

Semiclassical approach to Dynamics of Interacting Fermions

Shainen M. Davidson, Dries Sels, Anatoli Polkovnikov

Understanding the behavior of interacting fermions is of fundamental interest in many fields ranging from condensed matter to high energy physics. Developing numerically efficient…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 16 cited

Floquet topological phases coupled to environments and the induced photocurrent

Szabolcs Vajna, Baruch Horovitz, Balázs Dóra +1

We consider the fate of a helical edge state of a spin Hall insulator and its topological transition in presence of a circularly polarized light when coupled to various forms of en…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 28 cited

Properties of the random-singlet phase: from the disordered Heisenberg chain to an amorphous valence-bond solid

Yu-Rong Shu, Dao-Xin Yao, Chih-Wei Ke +2

We use a strong-disorder renormalization group (SDRG) method and ground-state quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations to study S=1/2 spin chains with random couplings, calculating di…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 17 cited

Field-driven quantum phase transitions in spin chains

Adam Iaizzi, Kedar Damle, Anders W. Sandvik

We study the magnetization process of a 1D extended Heisenberg model, the - model, as a function of an external magnetic field. In this model, represents the traditional…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 52 cited

Non-Abelian topological spin liquids from arrays of quantum wires or spin chains

Po-Hao Huang, Jyong-Hao Chen, Pedro R. S. Gomes +3

We construct two-dimensional non-Abelian topologically ordered states by strongly coupling arrays of one-dimensional quantum wires via interactions. In our scheme, all charge degre…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 78 cited

Ultrafast THz Field Control of Electronic and Structural Interactions in Vanadium Dioxide

A. X. Gray, M. C. Hoffmann, J. Jeong +34

Vanadium dioxide, an archetypal correlated-electron material, undergoes an insulator-metal transition near room temperature that exhibits electron-correlation-driven and structural…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 45 cited

Wire constructions of Abelian topological phases in three or more dimensions

Thomas Iadecola, Titus Neupert, Claudio Chamon +1

Coupled-wire constructions have proven to be useful tools to characterize Abelian and non-Abelian topological states of matter in two spatial dimensions. In many cases, their succe…