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most citedTwo-orbital SU(N) magnetism with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms

721 citations · 722 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

quant-ph2026

Climbing the Fusion Tree: Center Ordering and Decoding Hierarchy in Non-Abelian Mixed States

Pablo Sala, Vlad Temkin, Cenke Xu +2

We develop an operational approach to strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (sw-SSB) of a non-Abelian symmetry group G. We formulate it as the decoding task of distinguishin…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Particle-Vortex Duality of Hydrodynamics

Cenke Xu, Matthew P. A. Fisher

Equipped with the recently recognized symmetry structure of mixed states of matter and "strong-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking" (SW-SSB), we develop a quantum particle-vortex du…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Observation of Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Dephased Fermi Gas

Si Wang, Thomas G. Kiely, Dorothee Tell +9

Symmetry-based classification of quantum phases of matter is one of the most foundational organizing principles in physics; however, an analogous framework for mixed, decohered qua…

hep-lat2026

A Guide to Symmetric Mass Generation in Lattice-QCD

Anna Hasenfratz, Cenke Xu

Symmetric mass generation (SMG) has attracted growing interest in both condensed matter theory and lattice-QCD communities. Here we formulate general criteria for SMG and examine t…

quant-ph2026

Inequality for Strong-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Fermionic Open Quantum systems

Abhijat Sarma, Cenke Xu

Under decoherence, an initial Gaussian (free-fermion) state evolves into a non-Gaussian mixed state, so the resulting decohered fermionic state is not exactly solvable in general.…

quant-ph2026

Strong-to-Weak Symmetry Breaking in Open Quantum Systems: From Discrete Particles to Continuum Hydrodynamics

Jacob Hauser, Kaixiang Su, Hyunsoo Ha +6

We explore the onset of spontaneous strong-to-weak symmetry breaking (SW-SSB) under U(1)-symmetric (i.e., charge-conserving) open-system dynamics. We define this phenomenon for qua…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Non-invertible bosonic chiral symmetry on the lattice

Lukasz Fidkowski, Cenke Xu, Carolyn Zhang

In this work we realize the 3 + 1 dimensional non-invertible chiral symmetry generator as an operator in a many body lattice Hilbert space. A crucial ingredient in…

quant-ph2024

Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem and Information Geometry in Open Quantum Systems

Jian-Hao Zhang, Cenke Xu, Yichen Xu

We propose a fluctuation-dissipation theorem in open quantum systems from an information-theoretic perspective. We define the fidelity susceptibility that measures the sensitivity…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Strong-to-weak spontaneous breaking of 1-form symmetry and intrinsically mixed topological order

Carolyn Zhang, Yichen Xu, Jian-Hao Zhang +3

Topological orders in 2+1d are spontaneous symmetry-breaking (SSB) phases of 1-form symmetries in pure states. The notion of symmetry is further enriched in the context of mixed st…

cond-mat.quant-gas2009★ 721 cited

Two-orbital SU(N) magnetism with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms

A. V. Gorshkov, M. Hermele, V. Gurarie +7

Fermionic alkaline-earth atoms have unique properties that make them attractive candidates for the realization of novel atomic clocks and degenerate quantum gases. At the same time…