collaborators

6 papers

cs.AI2026

Probing the Critical Point (CritPt) of AI Reasoning: a Frontier Physics Research Benchmark

Minhui Zhu, Minyang Tian, Xiaocheng Yang +61

While large language models (LLMs) with reasoning capabilities are progressing rapidly on high-school math competitions and coding, can they reason effectively through complex, ope…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Universality of the Mott Transition

Jinchao Zhao, Peizhi Mai, Gaurav Tenkila +1

We demonstrate that the Mott transition exhibits universal scaling as a consequence of the breaking of a symmetry in momentum space. A direct consequence of this dis…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Twisting the Hubbard model into the Momentum-Mixing Hatsugai-Kohmoto Model

Peizhi Mai, Jinchao Zhao, Gaurav Tenkila +4

The Hubbard model is a standard theoretical tool for studying materials with strong electron-electron interactions, such as the cuprate superconductors. Unfortunately, interaction-…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Triplet Exciton-driven Topological Mott insulator at Finite Temperature

Peizhi Mai

Motivated by experiments in which the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) charge gap greatly exceeds the Curie temperature, we apply determinantal quantum Monte Carlo to two complementary…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Incipient quantum spin Hall insulator under strong correlations

Peizhi Mai, Jinchao Zhao, Philip W. Phillips

To assess prior mean-field claims that the interacting Kane-Mele model hosts a novel antiferromagnetic (AFM) Chern insulating phase for a wide range of sub-lattice potentials,…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Solving the SU() Orbital Hatsugai-Kohmoto Model

Nico A. Hackner, Peizhi Mai, Philip W. Phillips

We show that the physics of the SU() Hubbard model can be realistically simulated with the recently developed orbital Hatsugai-Kohmoto model. In this approach, the momentum mixi…