Bosonic Weyl excitations induced by $p$-orbital interactions in a cubic optical lattice
Abstract
Weyl points exist in a fascinating topological state of matter with linear band crossings analogous to magnetic monopoles. Tremendous efforts have been devoted to investigate fermionic topological matters with Weyl points in the single-particle band dispersion. It remains elusive for realizing interaction-induced Weyl points, especially for bosons. Motivated by recent experimental progress in ultracold atoms, we propose a scheme to create Weyl points for Bogoliubov excitations of a bosonic superfluid in a three-dimensional cubic optical lattice. The unique design of the lattice leads to interaction-induced time-reversal symmetry breaking for a -orbital superfluid, which in turn induces Weyl Bogoliubov excitations. Analogous to Weyl semimetals of electronic systems, the superfluid also support topologically protected edge modes due to the bulk-boundary correspondence.
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@article{arxiv.2303.00210,
title = {Bosonic Weyl excitations induced by $p$-orbital interactions in a cubic optical lattice},
author = {Guang-Quan Luo and Guan-Hua Huang and Zhi-Fang Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00210},
year = {2023}
}