Aditya Prakash, Debamalya Dutta, Arko Roy, Kush Saha
{"title":"Frequency-selective amplification of nonlinear response in strongly correlated bosons","authors":"Aditya Prakash, Debamalya Dutta, Arko Roy, Kush Saha","doi":"arxiv-2409.08168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.08168","url":null,"abstract":"We present a protocol to generate enhanced non-linear responses of incident\u0000pulses in the density wave phase within the extended Bose-Hubbard model using\u0000the concept of resonance-induced amplification (RIA). This method enables the\u0000selection of an incident pulse frequency to amplify the desired harmonic order.\u0000We characterize the enhancement of the non-linear harmonic spectra under\u0000various frequencies and field strengths of the incident pulses, and demonstrate\u0000that an optimal field strength is necessary to realize our protocol.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum metric induced hole dispersion and emergent particle-hole symmetry in topological flat bands","authors":"Guangyue Ji, Bo Yang","doi":"arxiv-2409.08324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.08324","url":null,"abstract":"The emergent hole dispersion in flat bands is an invaluable platform to study\u0000the interplay of quantum geometry and electron-electron interaction with a\u0000relatively simple setting. In this work, we find that the hole dispersion in\u0000ideal bands has a linear relationship with the trace of the quantum geometry\u0000tensor at every $boldsymbol{k}$-point for a wide range of interactions to a\u0000good approximation. Next, we give a microscopic analysis on the hole dispersion\u0000and show that the linear relationships for short-range and long-range\u0000interactions in $boldsymbol{k}$-space have different origins. Moreover, we\u0000show how to exploit this observation to engineer particle-hole symmetry in a\u0000Chern band with fluctuating quantum geometry. Our results will be useful for\u0000further studying the physics in particle-hole symmetric flat bands both in\u0000theory and in experiment.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naoya Iwahara, Jian-Rui Soh, Daigorou Hirai, Ivica Živković, Yuan Wei, Wenliang Zhang, Carlos Galdino, Tianlun Yu, Kenji Ishii, Federico Pisani, Oleg Malanyuk, Thorsten Schmitt, Henrik M Rønnow
{"title":"Persistent quantum vibronic dynamics in a $5d^1$ double perovskite oxide","authors":"Naoya Iwahara, Jian-Rui Soh, Daigorou Hirai, Ivica Živković, Yuan Wei, Wenliang Zhang, Carlos Galdino, Tianlun Yu, Kenji Ishii, Federico Pisani, Oleg Malanyuk, Thorsten Schmitt, Henrik M Rønnow","doi":"arxiv-2409.08095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.08095","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum entanglement between the spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom\u0000in condensed matter systems can emerge due to an interplay between spin-orbit\u0000and vibronic interactions. Heavy transition metal ions decorated on a\u0000face-centered cubic lattice, for example in $5d^1$ double perovskites, are\u0000particularly suited to support these quantum entangled states, but direct\u0000evidence has not yet been presented. In this work, we report additional peaks\u0000in the low-energy spectra of a $5d^1$ double perovskite, Ba$_2$CaReO$_6$, which\u0000cannot be explained by adopting a purely classical description of lattice\u0000vibrations. Instead, our theoretical analysis demonstrates that these\u0000spectroscopic signatures are characteristic of orbital-lattice entangled states\u0000in Ba$_2$CaReO$_6$. Crucially, both theory and experiment demonstrate that\u0000these quantum-entangled states persist to low temperatures, despite the onset\u0000of multipolar order.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Jost, Eder G. Lomeli, Woo Jin Kim, Emily M. Been, Matteo Rossi, Stefano Agrestini, Kejin Zhou, Chunjing Jia, Brian Moritz, Zhi-Xun Shen, Harold Y. Hwang, Thomas P. Devereaux, Wei-Sheng Lee
{"title":"Orbital inversion and emergent lattice dynamics in infinite layer CaCoO$_2$","authors":"Daniel Jost, Eder G. Lomeli, Woo Jin Kim, Emily M. Been, Matteo Rossi, Stefano Agrestini, Kejin Zhou, Chunjing Jia, Brian Moritz, Zhi-Xun Shen, Harold Y. Hwang, Thomas P. Devereaux, Wei-Sheng Lee","doi":"arxiv-2409.07705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.07705","url":null,"abstract":"The layered cobaltate CaCoO$_2$ exhibits a unique herringbone-like structure.\u0000Serving as a potential prototype for a new class of complex lattice patterns,\u0000we study the properties of CaCoO$_2$ using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS)\u0000and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). Our results reveal a\u0000significant inter-plane hybridization between the Ca $4s-$ and Co\u0000$3d-$orbitals, leading to an inversion of the textbook orbital occupation of a\u0000square planar geometry. Further, our RIXS data reveal a strong low energy mode,\u0000with anomalous intensity modulations as a function of momentum transfer close\u0000to a quasi-static response suggestive of electronic and/or orbital ordering.\u0000These findings indicate that the newly discovered herringbone structure\u0000exhibited in CaCoO$_2$ may serve as a promising laboratory for the design of\u0000materials having strong electronic, orbital and lattice correlations.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"392 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fusion of Low-Entanglement Excitations in 2D Toric Code","authors":"Jing-Yu Zhao, Xie Chen","doi":"arxiv-2409.07544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.07544","url":null,"abstract":"On top of a $D$-dimensional gapped bulk state, Low Entanglement Excitations\u0000(LEE) on $d$($<D$)-dimensional sub-manifolds can have extensive energy but\u0000preserves the entanglement area law of the ground state. Due to their\u0000multi-dimensional nature, the LEEs embody a higher-category structure in\u0000quantum systems. They are the ground state of a modified Hamiltonian and hence\u0000capture the notions of `defects' of generalized symmetries. In previous works,\u0000we studied the low-entanglement excitations in a trivial phase as well as those\u0000in invertible phases. We find that LEEs in these phases have the same structure\u0000as lower-dimensional gapped phases and their defects within. In this paper, we\u0000study the LEEs inside non-invertible topological phases. We focus on the simple\u0000example of $mathbb{Z}_2$ toric code and discuss how the fusion result of 1d\u0000LEEs with 0d morphisms can depend on both the choice of fusion circuit and the\u0000ordering of the fused defects.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cascade of strongly correlated quantum states in a partially filled kagome flat band","authors":"Caiyun Chen, Jiangchang Zheng, Yuman He, Xuzhe Ying, Soumya Sankar, Luanjing Li, Yizhou Wei, Xi Dai, Hoi Chun Po, Berthold Jäck","doi":"arxiv-2409.06933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.06933","url":null,"abstract":"Coulomb interactions among charge carriers that occupy an electronic flat\u0000band have a profound impact on the macroscopic properties of materials. At\u0000sufficient strength, these interactions can give rise to captivating phenomena\u0000such as quantum criticality, Mott-Hubbard states, and unconventional\u0000superconductivity. The appearance of these characteristics sensitively depends\u0000on the number of electrons occupying the flat band states. In this work, we\u0000present experimental evidence obtained from scanning tunneling microscopy\u0000measurements for a cascade of strongly correlated states appearing in the\u0000partially occupied kagome flat bands of Co$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$Sn whose filling can be\u0000controlled by the Fe-doping level $x$. At elevated temperatures ($Tgeq16,K$),\u0000we detect a nematic electronic state across a broad doping range $0.05<x<0.25$.\u0000The comparison with model calculations reveals that strong Coulomb interactions\u0000($U>100,$meV) blend the states of two $3d$-orbital derived flat bands and\u0000impart a nematic order parameter. This state serves as the parent phase of a\u0000strongly correlated phase diagram: At lower temperatures $T<16,$K, we find\u0000spectroscopic evidence for an orbital-selective Mott state enabled by the\u0000$3d$-orbital degeneracy of the Co atom. This state can only be detected in\u0000samples with ideal Fe doping ($x=0.17$) and descends into pseudogap phases upon\u0000electron and hole doping. At $T<8,$K, the pseudogap phase evolves into another\u0000nematic low temperature state. Our observations demonstrate that the electronic\u0000ground state of a kagome flat band depends on the complex interplay between\u0000strong Coulomb repulsion, $3d$-orbital degeneracy, and flat band filling\u0000fraction at different temperatures.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-energy critical behavior in two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac semimetals driven by fermion-fermion interactions","authors":"Wen Liu, Wen-Hao Bian, Xiao-Zhuo Chu, Jing Wang","doi":"arxiv-2409.07126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.07126","url":null,"abstract":"Employing the renormalization group approach, we carefully investigate the\u0000critical behavior of two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac semimetals induced by\u0000the fermion-fermion interactions in the low-energy regime. After incorporating\u0000all one-loop corrections, we derive the coupled RG equations of all related\u0000parameters and introduce two distinct strategies, named as Strategy I and\u0000Strategy II, to describe different scenarios. A detailed numerical analysis\u0000yields several interesting behavior in the low-energy limit. At first, we\u0000notice that the fermion-fermion interactions either vanish or diverge in the\u0000Strategy I, depending on the initial values of the tilting parameter and the\u0000fermionic couplings, whereas these interactions in the Strategy II always\u0000diverge at a certain critical energy scale, which is associated with the\u0000initial conditions. Next, the microstructural parameter $alpha$ and the\u0000fermion velocity $v_F$ in the Strategy I share the similar behavior with their\u0000Strategy II counterparts. It is observed that fermion-fermion interactions lead\u0000to an increase in $alpha$ while driving a decrease in $v_F$. Furthermore, the\u0000system can either be attracted by the Gaussian fixed point (GFP) or certain\u0000relatively fixed point (RFP) in the Strategy I. However, it always flow towards\u0000the RFP in the Strategy II at the lowest-energy limit. These results would\u0000provide helpful insights into the studies on observable quantities and phase\u0000transitions in the two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac semimetals and the\u0000analogous semimetals.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nernst Plateau in the Quantum Limit of Topological Insulators","authors":"Peng-Lu Zhao, J. L. Zhang, Hai-Zhou Lu, Qian Niu","doi":"arxiv-2409.07199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.07199","url":null,"abstract":"Nernst effect, a transverse electric current induced by a temperature\u0000gradient, is a promising tool for revealing emergent phases of condensed\u0000matter. We find a Nernst coefficient plateau in low carrier density topological\u0000insulators, as a signature of 1D Weyl points in the quantum limit of the weak\u0000topological insulator. The plateau height is inversely proportional to the\u0000impurity density, suggesting a way to engineer infinitely large Nernst effects.\u0000The Nernst plateau also exists in strong topological insulators, at the bottom\u0000of the lowest Landau band. We show that these plateaus have been overlooked in\u0000the previous experiments and we highlight the experimental conditions to\u0000observe them. Our results may inspire more investigations of employing\u0000anomalous Nernst effect to identify emergent phases of condensed matter.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incipient quantum spin Hall insulator under strong correlations","authors":"Peizhi Mai, Jinchao Zhao, Philip W. Phillips","doi":"arxiv-2409.07557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.07557","url":null,"abstract":"To assess prior mean-field studies that the interacting Kane-Mele model\u0000supports a novel antiferromagnetic Chern insulating phase (AFCI) for a wide\u0000range of sublattice potentials, we analyze the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model in the\u0000presence of a sublattice potential using determinant quantum Monte Carlo\u0000(DQMC). Instead of an AFCI, we find that the ground state is a quantum spin\u0000Hall (QSH) insulator for intermediate values of the sublattice potential\u0000$lambda_v$, albeit with a small gap. The QSH state gives way to a trivial band\u0000insulator as the sublattice potential increases beyond a critical value. Only\u0000at small sublattice potentials does the QSH state transition into a trivial\u0000Mott insulator with xy antiferromagnetic correlations. The QAH feature is only\u0000observed at high temperature. The QAH feature crosses over to an incipient QSH\u0000state when the topological gap stabilizes. Our work is consistent with the\u0000experimental observation that in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and WSe$_2$ as well\u0000as AB stacked MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$, where QSH is consistently observed at\u0000even-integer filling over a wide range of parameters.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variational wavefunction for Mott insulator at finite $U$ using ancilla qubits","authors":"Boran Zhou, Hui-Ke Jin, Ya-Hui Zhang","doi":"arxiv-2409.07512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.07512","url":null,"abstract":"The Mott regime with finite $U$ offers a promising platform for exploring\u0000novel phases of matter, such as quantum spin liquids (QSL) that exhibit\u0000fractionalization and emergent gauge field. Here, we provide a new class\u0000wavefunction, dubbed ancilla wavefunction, to capture both charge and spin\u0000(gauge) fluctuations in QSLs at finite $U$. The ancilla wavefunction can unify\u0000the Fermi liquid and Mott insulator phases with a single variation parameter\u0000$Phi$ tuning the charge gap. As $Phi rightarrowinfty$, the wavefunction\u0000reduces to the Gutzwiller projected state, while at $Phi=U/2$, it is\u0000effectively equivalent to applying an inverse Schrieffer-Wolff transformation\u0000to the Gutzwiller projected state. This wavefunction can be numerically\u0000simulated in the matrix product state representation, and its performance is\u0000supported by numerical results for both one- and two-dimensional Hubbard\u0000models. Besides, we propose the possibility of a narrow regime of fractional\u0000Fermi liquid phase between the usual Fermi liquid and the Mott insulator phases\u0000close to the metal insulator transition -- a scenario typically overlooked by\u0000the conventional slave rotor theory. Our ancilla wavefunction offers a novel\u0000conceptual framework and a powerful numerical tool for understanding Mott\u0000physics.","PeriodicalId":501171,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - PHYS - Strongly Correlated Electrons","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}