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Squeezed Dirac and Topological Magnons in a Bosonic Honeycomb Optical Lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-10-20 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Quantum information storage using charge-neutral quasiparticles are expected to play a crucial role in the future of quantum computers. In this regard, magnons or collective spin-wave excitations in solid-state materials are promising candidates in the future of quantum computing. Here, we study the quantum squeezing of Dirac and topological magnons in a bosonic honeycomb optical lattice with spin-orbit interaction by utilizing the mapping to quantum spin-1/21/2 XYZ Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice with discrete Z2_2 symmetry and a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We show that the squeezed magnons can be controlled by the Z2_2 anisotropy and demonstrate how the noise in the system is periodically modified in the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases of the model. Our results also apply to solid-state honeycomb (anti)ferromagnetic insulators.

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@article{arxiv.1706.04974,
  title  = {Squeezed Dirac and Topological Magnons in a Bosonic Honeycomb Optical Lattice},
  author = {S. A. Owerre and J. Nsofini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04974},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages, 9 figures