Measuring the topological phase transition via the single-particle density matrix
Quantum Gases
2020-02-05 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We discuss the topological phase transition of the spin- fermionic Haldane model with repulsive on-site interaction. We show that the Berry curvature of the topological Hamiltonian, the first Chern number, and the topological phase transition point can be extracted from the single-particle density matrix for this interacting system. Furthermore, we design a tomography scheme for the single-particle density matrix of interacting fermionic two-band models in experimental realizations with cold atoms in optical lattices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.01991,
title = {Measuring the topological phase transition via the single-particle density matrix},
author = {Jun-Hui Zheng and Bernhard Irsigler and Lijia Jiang and Christof Weitenberg and Walter Hofstetter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01991},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures