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Spin is a fundamental property of all elementary particles. Classically it can be viewed as a tiny magnetic moment, but a measurement of an electron spin along the direction of an external magnetic field can have only two outcomes: parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Elzerman , R. Hanson , L. H. Willems van Beveren , B. Witkamp , L. M. K. Vandersypen , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We analyze the modular properties of the effective CFT description for paired states, proposed in cond-mat/0003453, corresponding to the non-standard filling nu =1/(p+1). We construct its characters for the twisted and the untwisted sector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Cristofano , G. Maiella , V. Marotta , G. Niccoli

The effect of spatially modulated interaction on quantum phase transition in one-dimensional interacting spinless fermion system is theoretically investigated by exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group method. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-27 Zheng-Wei Zuo , Da-wei Kang , Liben Li

Quantum-disordering a discrete-symmetry breaking state by condensing domain-walls can lead to a trivial symmetric insulator state. In this work, we show that if we bind a 1D representation of the symmetry (such as a charge) to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-29 Zheng-Cheng Gu , Juven C. Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen

Fractional quantum Hall states are promising platforms for topological quantum computation due to their capacity to encode quantum information in topologically degenerate ground states and in the fusion space of non-abelian anyons. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Zijian Wang , Ruihua Fan , Tianle Wang , Samuel J. Garratt , Ehud Altman

Breakthrough experiments have recently realized fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials. However, all states observed are Abelian, the possible existence of more exotic non-Abelian FCIs remains controversial both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-25 Hui Liu , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We consider a system of static spin qubits embedded in a one-dimensional spin coherent channel and develop a scheme to readout the state of one and two qubits separately. We use unpolarized flying qubits for this purpose that scatter off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Amritesh Sharma , Ashwin A. Tulapurkar

Topologically ordered states are quantum states of matter with topological ground state degeneracy and quasi-particles carrying fractional quantum numbers and fractional statistics. The topological spin $\theta_a=2\pi h_a$ is an important…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-02 Hong-Hao Tu , Yi Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi

A topological insulator is characterized by spin-momentum locking on its boundary. The spin momentum locking on the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator leads to the existence of a non-trivial Berry's phase which leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Su-Yang Xu , L. A. Wray , Y. Xia , R. Shankar , S. Jia , A. Fedorov , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , B. Slomski , J. Osterwalder , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

A large class of symmetry-protected topological phases (SPT) in boson / spin systems have been recently predicted by the group cohomology theory. In this work, we consider SPT states at least with charge symmetry (U(1) or Z$_N$) or spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-12 Peng Ye , Juven Wang

Surface states of topological noncentrosymmetric superconductors exhibit intricate helical spin textures, i.e., the spin orientation of the surface quasiparticles is coupled to their momentum. Using quasiclassical theory, we study the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-19 P. M. R. Brydon , Andreas P. Schnyder , Carsten Timm

Effects manifesting quantum geometry have been a focus of physics research. Here, we reveal that quantum metric plays a crucial role in nonlinear electric spin response, leading to a quantum metric spin-orbit torque. We argue that enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xukun Feng , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Weibo Gao , Lay Kee Ang , Y. X. Zhao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Spin textures, i.e., the distribution of spin polarization vectors in reciprocal space, exhibit diverse patterns determined by symmetry constraints, resulting in a variety of spintronic phenomena. Here, we propose a universal theory to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-24 Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Pengfei Liu , Qihang Liu

Topological insulators are novel macroscopic quantum-mechanical phase of matter, which hold promise for realizing some of the most exotic particles in physics as well as application towards spintronics and quantum computation. In all the…

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

We outline a program for interpreting the higher-spin dS/CFT model in terms of physics in the causal patch of a dS observer. The proposal is formulated in "elliptic" de Sitter space dS_4/Z_2, obtained by identifying antipodal points in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-03 Illan F. Halpern , Yasha Neiman

Motivated by the limited understanding of entanglement entropy in non-asymptotically AdS spacetimes, we develop a framework in which a circular string is embedded as a quantum probe in a spherically symmetric curved spacetime, and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ai-chen Li , Xin-Fei Li , Xuanting Ji

Neutron diffraction on the centrosymmetric square-net magnet EuGa$_2$Al$_2$ reveals multiple incommensurate magnetic states (AFM1,2,3) in zero field. In applied field, a new magnetic phase (A) is identified from magnetization and transport…

We have investigated the formation of spin textures at the edges of quantum Hall systems for several ferromagnetic filling factors. The textures are driven by the same physics that leads to ``skyrmions'' in the bulk. For hard confinement…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Karlhede , S. A. Kivelson , K. Lejnell , S. L. Sondhi

Formation of quantum scars in many-body systems provides a novel mechanism for enhancing coherence of weakly entangled states. At the same time, coherence of edge modes in certain symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases can persist away…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-30 Jared Jeyaretnam , Jonas Richter , Arijeet Pal