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[1]  arXiv:2405.00745 [pdf, other]
Title: Non-perturbative signatures of fractons in the twisted multi-flavor Schwinger Model
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

Gauge-field configurations with non-trivial topology have profound consequences for the physics of Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories. Over time, arguments have been gathering for the existence of gauge-field configurations with fractional topological charge, called fractons. Ground-state properties of gauge theories can drastically change in presence of fractons in the path integral. However, understanding the origin of such fractons is usually restricted to semi-classical argumentation. Here, we show that fractons persist in strongly correlated many-body systems, using the multiflavor Schwinger model of quantum electrodynamics as a paradigm example. Through detailed numerical tensor-network analysis, we find strong fracton signatures even in highly discretized lattice models, at sizes that are implementable on already existing quantum-simulation devices. Our work sheds light on how the non-trivial topology of gauge theories persists in challenging non-perturbative regimes, and it shows a path forward to probing it in table-top experiments.

[2]  arXiv:2405.00785 [pdf, other]
Title: Quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes in many-body scar models
Comments: 25 pages, 12 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

From the quasisymmetry-group perspective [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120604 (2021)], we show the universal existence of collective, coherent modes of excitations with small momenta in many-body scar models in the degenerate limit, where the energy spacing in the scar tower vanishes. The number of these modes, as well as the quantum numbers carried by them, are given, not by the symmetry of the Hamiltonian, but by the quasisymmetry of the scar tower: hence the name quasi-Goldstone modes. Based on this, we draw a concrete analogy between the paradigm of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the many-body scar physics in the degenerate limit.

[3]  arXiv:2405.01455 [pdf, other]
Title: Anomalous phonon Grüneisen parameters in semiconductor Ta$_2$NiS$_5$
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

Strain tuning is a powerful experimental method in probing correlated electron systems. Here we study the strain response of the lattice dynamics and electronic structure in semiconductor Ta$_2$NiS$_5$ by polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy. We observe an increase of the size of the direct semiconducting band gap. Although the majority of the optical phonons show only marginal dependence to applied strain, the frequency of the two B$_{2g}$ phonon modes, which have quadrupolar symmetry and already anomalously soften on cooling under zero strain, increases significantly with tensile strain along the $a$ axis. The corresponding Gr\"uneisen parameters are unusually large in magnitude and negative in sign. These effects are well captured by first-principles density functional theory calculations and indicate close proximity of Ta$_2$NiS$_5$ to a structural instability, similar to that encountered in excitonic insulator candidate Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$.

[4]  arXiv:2405.01489 [pdf, other]
Title: Single-layer tensor network approach for three-dimensional quantum systems
Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

Calculation of observables with three-dimensional projected entangled pair states is generally hard, as it requires a contraction of complex multi-layer tensor networks. We utilize the multi-layer structure of these tensor networks to largely simplify the contraction. The proposed approach involves the usage of the layer structure both to simplify the search for the boundary projected entangled pair states and the single-layer mapping of the final corner transfer matrix renormalization group contraction. We benchmark our results on the cubic lattice Heisenberg model, reaching the bond dimension D = 7, and find a good agreement with the previous results.

Cross-lists for Fri, 3 May 24

[5]  arXiv:2405.00700 (cross-list from cs.NE) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Oxygen vacancies modulated VO2 for neurons and Spiking Neural Network construction
Comments: 18 pages,4 figures
Subjects: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

Artificial neuronal devices are the basic building blocks for neuromorphic computing systems, which have been motivated by realistic brain emulation. Aiming for these applications, various device concepts have been proposed to mimic the neuronal dynamics and functions. While till now, the artificial neuron devices with high efficiency, high stability and low power consumption are still far from practical application. Due to the special insulator-metal phase transition, Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) has been considered as an idea candidate for neuronal device fabrication. However, its intrinsic insulating state requires the VO2 neuronal device to be driven under large bias voltage, resulting in high power consumption and low frequency. Thus in the current study, we have addressed this challenge by preparing oxygen vacancies modulated VO2 film(VO2-x) and fabricating the VO2-x neuronal devices for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) construction. Results indicate the neuron devices can be operated under lower voltage with improved processing speed. The proposed VO2-x based back-propagation SNNs (BP-SNNs) system, trained with the MNIST dataset, demonstrates excellent accuracy in image recognition. Our study not only demonstrates the VO2-x based neurons and SNN system for practical application, but also offers an effective way to optimize the future neuromorphic computing systems by defect engineering strategy.

[6]  arXiv:2405.00765 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]
Title: Schwinger-Keldysh nonequilibrium quantum field theory of open quantum systems beyond the Markovian regime: Application to the spin-boson model
Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

We develop a Schwinger-Keldysh field theory (SKFT) for open quantum systems interacting with a dissipative environment and apply it to the spin-boson model as an archetypical example where the environment is composed of a bosonic bath. Prior SKFT developments of this type have been confined to the Markovian regime, as an alternative to a conventional description by the Lindblad quantum master equation (QME) which is a time-local matrix differential equation. Here we combine SKFT with a two-particle irreducible (2PI) action that resums a class of Feynman diagrams to infinite order. We obtain the time-evolution of the spin density matrix in the form of a system of integro-differential equations applicable to both Markovian and non-Markovian regimes. The latter regime--where taking into account memory effects becomes essential--poses a challenge for standard methods when trying to incorporate arbitrary properties of the system, bath, and length of time evolution. The SKFT+2PI-computed time evolution of the spin expectation values in the Markovian regime reproduces the solution of the Lindblad QME, as long as the system-bath coupling in the latter is adjusted by increasing it. In the non-Markovian regime, SKFT+2PI yields a nonperturbative solution that mimics results from both hierarchical equations of motion and tensor networks methods that we employ as benchmarks. Our SKFT+2PI approach can also access challenging cases, such as zero-temperature and sub-Ohmic bath, as well as arbitrary long evolution times. Taking into account favorable numerical cost of solving the integro-differential equations with increasing number of spins, time steps or dimensionality the SKFT+2PI approach offers a promising route for simulation of driven-dissipative systems in quantum computing or quantum magnonics and spintronics in the presence of a variety of (single or multiple) dissipative environments.

[7]  arXiv:2405.00786 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]
Title: Thermalization slowing down of weakly nonintegrable quantum spin dynamics
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

We study thermalization slowing down of a quantum many-body system upon approach to two distinct integrability limits. Motivated by previous studies of classical systems, we identify two thermalization time scales: one quantum Lyapunov time scale is extracted by quantifying operator growth in time in an appropriately defined basis, while another ergodization time scale is related to statistics of fluctuations of the time-evolved operator around its mean value based on the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. Using a paradigmatic Quantum Ising chain we find that both timescales diverge upon approach to integrability. The relative strength of the divergence of the scales depends on the particular integrable limit. This allows us to define two different universality classes of quantum thermalization: short- and long-range networks.

[8]  arXiv:2405.00787 (cross-list from cond-mat.supr-con) [pdf, other]
Title: Non-uniform and anisotropic electric polarizability resulting in pronounced local repulsion minima in high-temperature superconductors
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

We demonstrate the dramatic effect of non-uniform, discrete electric polarizability in high-T$_{C}$ superconductors on the spatial fluctuations of the short to medium range Coulomb interactions through a real-space semiclassical model. Although this is a general property, we concentrate on the cuprates as parent compounds, in which the charge carriers are primarily concentrated on the O sublattice. The anisotropic effective Cu-O bond polarization caused by charge transfer energy modulation and the O$^{2-}$ atomic polarizability together generate a non-monotonic screened hole-hole Coulomb interaction at short distances that displays a local minimum at the in-plane second nearest neighbor O-O distance solely along the Cu-O bond direction. This is in accordance with the pseudogap phase anisotropy and the short coherence length observed in many high-T$_C$ superconductors.

[9]  arXiv:2405.00848 (cross-list from cond-mat.supr-con) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Magnetic field expulsion in optically driven YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.48}$
Comments: 37 pages, including supplementary information
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

Coherent optical driving in quantum solids is emerging as a new research frontier, with many demonstrations of exotic non-equilibrium quantum phases. These are based on engineered band structures, and on stimulated nonlinear interactions between driven modes. Enhanced functionalities like ferroelectricity, magnetism and superconductivity have been reported in these non-equilibrium settings. In high-Tc cuprates, coherent driving of certain phonon modes induces a transient state with superconducting-like optical properties, observed far above T$_c$ and throughout the pseudogap phase. Questions remain not only on the microscopic nature of this phenomenon, but also on the macroscopic properties of these transient states, beyond the documented optical conductivities. Crucially, it is not clear if driven cuprates exhibit Meissner-like diamagnetism. Here, the time-dependent magnetic-field amplitude surrounding a driven YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.48}$ sample is probed by measuring Faraday rotation in a GaP layer adjacent to the superconductor. For the same driving conditions that result in superconducting-like optical properties, an enhancement of magnetic field at the edge of the sample is detected, indicative of induced diamagnetism. The dynamical field expulsion measured after pumping is comparable in size to the one expected in an equilibrium type II superconductor of similar shape and size with a volume susceptibility $\chi_v$ of order -0.3. Crucially, this value is incompatible with a photo-induced increase in mobility without superconductivity. Rather, it underscores the notion of a pseudogap phase in which incipient superconducting correlations are enhanced or synchronized by the optical drive.

[10]  arXiv:2405.01005 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Hundness and band renormalization in the kagome antiferromagnets Mn$_3X$
Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

The interplay of topological band structures and electronic correlations may lead to novel exotic quantum phenomena with potential applications. First-principles calculations are critical for guiding the experimental discoveries and interpretations, but often fail if electronic correlations cannot be properly treated. Here we show that this issue occurs also in the antiferromagnetic kagome lattice Mn$_3X$ ($X=$ Sn, Ge), which exhibit a large anomalous Hall effect due to topological band structures with Weyl nodes near the Fermi energy. Our systematic investigations reveal a crucial role of the Hund's rule coupling on three key aspects of their magnetic, electronic, and topological properties: (1) the establishment of noncollinear antiferromagnetic orders, (2) the weakly renormalized bands in excellent agreement with ARPES, and (3) a sensitive tuning of the Weyl nodes beyond previous expectations. Our work provides a basis for understanding the topological properties of Mn$_3X$ and challenges previous experimental interpretations based on incorrect band structures.

[11]  arXiv:2405.01351 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other]
Title: High harmonic generation from electrons moving on topological spin textures
Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a striking phenomenon, which reflects the ultrafast dynamics of electrons. Recently, it has been demonstrated that HHG can be used to reconstruct not only the energy band structure but also the geometric structure characterized by the Berry curvature. Here, we numerically investigate HHG arising from electrons coupled with a topological spin texture in a spin scalar chiral state where time reversal symmetry is broken. In this system, a sign change in scalar chirality alters the sign of the Berry curvature while keeping the energy band structure unchanged, allowing us to discuss purely geometrical effects on HHG. Notably, we found that, when the optical frequency is significantly lower than the energy gap, the sign of scalar chirality largely affects the longitudinal response parallel to the optical field rather than the transverse response. Our analysis suggests that this can be attributed to interband currents induced by the recombination of electron-hole pairs whose real-space trajectories are modulated by the anomalous velocity term.

[12]  arXiv:2405.01445 (cross-list from cond-mat.mtrl-sci) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Depth-resolved profile of the interfacial ferromagnetism in $CaMnO_{3}/CaRuO_{3}$ superlattices
Subjects: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)

Emergent magnetic phenomena at interfaces represent a frontier in materials science, pivotal for advancing technologies in spintronics and magnetic storage. In this letter, we utilize a suite of advanced X-ray spectroscopic and scattering techniques to investigate emergent interfacial ferromagnetism in oxide superlattices comprised of antiferromagnetic CaMnO3 and paramagnetic CaRuO3. Our findings challenge prior theoretical models by demonstrating that the ferromagnetism extends beyond the interfacial layer into multiple unit cells of CaMnO3 and exhibits an asymmetric profile. Complementary density functional calculations reveal that the interfacial ferromagnetism is driven by the double exchange mechanism, facilitated by charge transfer from Ru to Mn ions. Additionally, defect chemistry, particularly the presence of oxygen vacancies, likely plays a crucial role in modifying the magnetic moments at the interface, leading to the observed asymmetry between the top and bottom CaMnO3 interfacial magnetic layers. Our findings underscore the potential of manipulating interfacial ferromagnetism through point defect engineering.

Replacements for Fri, 3 May 24

[13]  arXiv:2308.05788 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Correlated electrons tunneling through pseudo Fermi arcs in hyperbolic Fermi surfaces of topological materials
Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2007.05525
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
[14]  arXiv:2308.16241 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Filling constraints on translation invariant dipole conserving systems
Comments: 5 pages + 11 pages. v2: Minor edits and added constraints for discrete charge and dipole conserving systems
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
[15]  arXiv:2402.06760 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Linear combinations of cluster mean-field states applied to spin systems
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
[16]  arXiv:2402.14107 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Excitation Spectrum and Spin Hamiltonian of the Frustrated Quantum Ising Magnet Pr$_3$BWO$_9$
Comments: 21 pages, 12 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
[17]  arXiv:2402.15209 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: (Almost) Everything is a Dicke model -- Mapping non-superradiant correlated light-matter systems to the exactly solvable Dicke model
Comments: 26 pages, 7 figures; Added proposed changes by the editors during SciPost review process
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
[18]  arXiv:2402.16685 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Rapidly convergent quantum Monte Carlo using a Chebyshev projector
Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
[19]  arXiv:2404.02863 (replaced) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Discovery of universal phonon thermal Hall effect in crystals
Comments: 33 pages
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
[20]  arXiv:2404.10814 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Higher Hall conductivity from a single wave function: Obstructions to symmetry-preserving gapped edge of (2+1)D topological order
Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures, minor edits
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
[21]  arXiv:2302.09099 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Universality and the thermoelectric transport properties of a double quantum dot system: Seeking for conditions that improve the thermoelectric efficiency
Comments: 13 pages, 12 figures
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
[22]  arXiv:2308.16908 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Quantized thermal and spin transports of dirty planar topological superconductors
Comments: Published version in PRB: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 Table
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. B 109, 195403 (2024)
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
[23]  arXiv:2309.14851 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Doped Holographic Superconductors in Gubser-Rocha model
Comments: 17 pages,10 figures
Journal-ref: Commun. Theor. Phys. 76 045201(2024)
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
[24]  arXiv:2310.07978 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Anderson localization transition in disordered hyperbolic lattices
Comments: main text (5 pages with 3 figures) + bibliography (2 pages) + supplemental material (8 pages with 6 figures and 3 tables)
Subjects: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
[25]  arXiv:2311.15631 (replaced) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Classification of connected étale algebras in pre-modular fusion categories up to rank three
Authors: Ken Kikuchi
Comments: 25 pages + 2 Appendices; v2: proved all $psu(2)_5$'s are completely anisotropic and fixed typos; v3: corrected method and typos, and completed classifications by relaxing assumption on multiplicity
Subjects: Quantum Algebra (math.QA); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Category Theory (math.CT)
[26]  arXiv:2312.10886 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Unconventional $s$-Wave Pairing with Point-Node-Like Gap Structure in UTe$_2$
Comments: Main Text: 4 pages, 7 figures; Supplementary Material: 7 pages, 4 figures. (Published; J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 93, 063701)
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
[27]  arXiv:2312.13353 (replaced) [pdf, ps, other]
Title: Classification of connected étale algebras in modular fusion categories up to rank five
Authors: Ken Kikuchi
Comments: 32 pages + references; v2: minor corrections on Toric Code, fixed typos; v3: minor corrections on $psu(2)_9$, and added a theorem in section 3.1 proving modular fusion categories $\mathcal B$'s with $\text{rank}(\mathcal B)>1$ are spontaneously broken; v4: minor corrections on $\text{Vec}_{\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z\times\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z}$; v5:corrected method and typos
Subjects: Quantum Algebra (math.QA); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Category Theory (math.CT)
[28]  arXiv:2402.08730 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: Universal low-temperature fluctuation of unconventional superconductors revealed: 'Smoking gun' leaves proper bosonic superfluidity the last theory standing
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
[29]  arXiv:2404.18737 (replaced) [pdf, other]
Title: A general framework for active space embedding methods: applications in quantum computing
Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
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