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cond-mat.str-el2005★ 11 cited

Tunneling spectra of layered strongly correlated d-wave superconductors

Tiago C. Ribeiro, Xiao-Gang Wen

Tunneling conductance experiments on cuprate superconductors exhibit a large diversity of spectra that appear in different nano-sized regions of inhomogeneous samples. In this lett…

cond-mat.str-el2005★ 2.1k cited

Detecting topological order in a ground state wave function

Michael Levin, Xiao-Gang Wen

A large class of topological orders can be understood and classified using the string-net condensation picture. These topological orders can be characterized by a set of data (N, d…

cond-mat.str-el2005★ 18 cited

Detecting topological orders through continuous quantum phase transition

Ying Ran, Xiao-gang Wen

We study a continuous quantum phase transition that breaks a symmetry. We show that the transition is described by a new critical point which does not belong to the Ising uni…

cond-mat.supr-con2005★ 42 cited

Pseudogap, Superconducting Energy Scale, and Fermi Arcs in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Hai-Hu Wen, Lei Shan, Xiao-Gang Wen +6

Through the measurements of magnetic field dependence of specific heat in in zero temperature limit, we determined the nodal slope of the quasiparticle ga…

cond-mat.str-el2005★ 4 cited

From new states of matter to a unification of light and electrons

Xiao-Gang Wen

For a long time, people believe that all possible states of matter are described by Landau symmetry-breaking theory. Recently we find that string-net condensation provide a mechani…

hep-th2005★ 74 cited

Quantum ether: photons and electrons from a rotor model

Michael Levin, Xiao-Gang Wen

We give an example of a purely bosonic model -- a rotor model on the 3D cubic lattice -- whose low energy excitations behave like massless U(1) gauge bosons and massless Dirac ferm…

cond-mat.str-el2005★ 408 cited

Quasi-adiabatic Continuation of Quantum States: The Stability of Topological Ground State Degeneracy and Emergent Gauge Invariance

M. B. Hastings, Xiao-Gang Wen

We define for quantum many-body systems a quasi-adiabatic continuation of quantum states. The continuation is valid when the Hamiltonian has a gap, or else has a sufficiently small…

cond-mat.str-el2005

Pseudogap, Superconducting Gap, and Fermi Arcs in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Hai-Hu Wen, Lei Shan, Xiao-Gang Wen +6

Through the measurements of magnetic field dependence of specific heat in in zero temperature limit, we find that the nodal slope of the superconducting g…