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20172026
most citedScaling of entanglement entropy at deconfined quantum criticality

90 citations · 773 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Thermalization in a Height-Conserving Quantum Dimer Model

Junsheng Feng, Jie Ren, Zheng Yan

Strongly constrained quantum systems, in which local rules forbid most configurations, play a central role in condensed matter and lattice gauge theory. Their thermalization is oft…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Kosterlitz--Thouless Criticality in a Dipole-Conserving XY Model

Han-Xie Wang, Shuai A. Chen, Zheng Yan +1

In this Letter, we study finite-temperature phase transitions in a two-dimensional classical statistical model called ``dipole-conserving XY model''. Unlike the conventional XY mod…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Short-time critical dynamics in the classical cubic dimer model

Hu-Xiao Peng, Zheng Yan, Shuai Yin

The classical dimer model on the cubic lattice hosts a columnar ordered phase and a disordered Coulomb phase, separated by a continuous phase transition that lies beyond the conven…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 3 cited

Classical fully-packed loop model with attractive interactions on the square lattice

Bhupen Dabholkar, Xiaoxue Ran, Junchen Rong +4

We study a classical model of fully-packed loops on the square lattice, which interact through attractive loop segment interactions between opposite sides of plaquettes. This study…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Quantum Simulation of Two-Dimensional Gauge Theory in Rydberg and Rydberg-Dressed Atom Arrays

Zheng Zhou, Zheng Yan, Changle Liu +2

Simulating quantum gauge theories with spatial dimension greater than one is of great physical significance yet has not been achieved experimentally. Here we propos…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Different temperature-dependence for the edge and bulk of entanglement Hamiltonian

Menghan Song, Jiarui Zhao, Zheng Yan +1

We propose a physical picture based on the wormhole effect of the path-integral formulation to explain the mechanism of entanglement spectrum (ES), such that, our picture not only…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

Classical model emerges in quantum entanglement: Quantum Monte Carlo study for an Ising-Heisenberg bilayer

Siying Wu, Binbin Yin, Xiaoxue Ran +4

By developing a cluster sampling of stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo method, we investigate a spin- model on a bilayer square lattice with intra-layer ferromagn…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 15 cited

Detecting Subsystem Symmetry Protected Topological Order Through Strange Correlators

Chengkang Zhou, Meng-Yuan Li, Zheng Yan +2

We employ strange correlators to detect 2D subsystem symmetry-protected topological (SSPT) phases which are nontrivial topological phases protected by subsystem symmetries. Specifi…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 17 cited

Fully packed quantum loop model on the square lattice: phase diagram and application for Rydberg atoms

Xiaoxue Ran, Zheng Yan, Yan-Cheng Wang +3

The quantum dimer and loop models attract great attentions, partially because the fundamental importance in the phases and phase transitions emerging in these prototypical constrai…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 7 cited

Hidden orders and phase transitions for the fully packed quantum loop model on the triangular lattice

Xiaoxue Ran, Zheng Yan, Yan-Cheng Wang +5

Quantum loop and dimer models are prototypical correlated systems with local constraints, which are not only intimately connected to lattice gauge theories and topological orders b…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 22 cited

Height-conserving quantum dimer models

Zheng Yan, Zi Yang Meng, David A. Huse +1

We propose a height-conserving quantum dimer model (hQDM) such that the lattice sum of its associated height field is conserved, and that it admits a Rokhsar-Kivelson (RK) point. T…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 16 cited

Evolution of Dynamical Signature in the X-cube Fracton Topological Order

Chengkang Zhou, Meng-Yuan Li, Zheng Yan +2

As an unconventional realization of topological orders with an exotic interplay of topology and geometry, fracton (topological) orders feature subextensive topological ground state…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 56 cited

Triangular lattice quantum dimer model with variable dimer density

Zheng Yan, Rhine Samajdar, Yan-Cheng Wang +2

Quantum dimer models are known to host topological quantum spin liquid phases, and it has recently become possible to simulate such models with Rydberg atoms trapped in arrays of o…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 65 cited

Measuring Rényi entanglement entropy with high efficiency and precision in quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Jiarui Zhao, Bin-Bin Chen, Yan-Cheng Wang +3

We develop a nonequilibrium increment method in quantum Monte Carlo simulations to obtain the Rényi entanglement entropy of various quantum many-body systems with high efficiency a…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 29 cited

Unlocking the general relationship between energy and entanglement spectra via the wormhole effect

Zheng Yan, Zi Yang Meng

Based on the path integral formulation of the reduced density matrix, we develop a scheme to overcome the exponential growth of computational complexity in reliably extracting low-…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 90 cited

Scaling of entanglement entropy at deconfined quantum criticality

Jiarui Zhao, Yan-Cheng Wang, Zheng Yan +2

We develop a nonequilibrium increment method to compute the Rényi entanglement entropy and investigate its scaling behavior at the deconfined critical (DQC) point via large-scale q…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 10 cited

Emergent Rokhsar-Kivelson point in realistic quantum Ising models

Zheng Zhou, Zheng Yan, Changle Liu +2

We show that the Rokhsar-Kivelson (RK) point in quantum dimer models (QDM) can emerge in realistic quantum Ising spin systems. Specifically, we investigate the -- tr…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Quantum optimization within lattice gauge theory model on a quantum simulator

Zheng Yan, Zheng Zhou, Yan-Hua Zhou +4

Simulating lattice gauge theory (LGT) Hamiltonian and its nontrivial states by programmable quantum devices has attracted numerous attention in recent years. Rydberg atom arrays co…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 32 cited

Phase Diagram of Triangular Lattice Quantum Ising Model under External Field

Yuan Da Liao, Han Li, Zheng Yan +4

Quantum Ising model on a triangular lattice hosts a finite temperature Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase with emergent U(1) symmetry, and it will transit into an up-up-do…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 51 cited

Higher-form symmetry breaking at Ising transitions

Jiarui Zhao, Zheng Yan, Meng Cheng +1

In recent years, new phases of matter that are beyond the Landau paradigm of symmetry breaking are mountaining, and to catch up with this fast development, new notions of global sy…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 38 cited

Global scheme of sweeping cluster algorithm to sample among topological sectors

Zheng Yan

Local constraint is closely related to the gauge field, so constrained models are usually effective low energy descriptions and important in condensed matter physics. On the other…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 31 cited

Quantum dynamics of topological strings in a frustrated Ising antiferromagnet

Zheng Zhou, Chang-Le Liu, Zheng Yan +2

We investigate the quantum dynamics of the transverse field Ising model on the triangular lattice through large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations and stochastic analytic contin…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 24 cited

Vestigial anyon condensation in kagome quantum spin liquids

Yan-Cheng Wang, Zheng Yan, Chenjie Wang +2

We construct a lattice model of topological order (kagome quantum spin liquids) and solve it with unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A three-stage anyon condensation with tw…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 37 cited

Amplitude Mode in Quantum Magnets via Dimensional Crossover

Chengkang Zhou, Zheng Yan, Han-Qing Wu +3

We investigate the amplitude (Higgs) mode associated with longitudinal fluctuations of the order parameter at the continuous spontaneous symmetry breaking phase transition. In quan…