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Topological insulators are quantum materials involving Time-reversal protected surface states(TSS) making them appealing candidates for the design of next generation of highly efficient spintronic devices. The very recent observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Armando Pezo , Jean-Marie George , Henri Jaffrès

In this paper, based on a non-Hermitian toric-code model, we surprisingly find that the degeneracy of ground states can be changed by a local non-Hermitian perturbation (even in thermodynamic limit). We call it non-Hermitian avalanche…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Cui-Xian Guo , Xiao-Ran Wang , Su-Peng Kou

Topological defects with symmetry-breaking phase transitions have captured much attention. Vortex generated by topological defects exhibits exotic properties and its flow direction can be switched by altering the spin configurations.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jiujiu Chen , Hongbo Huang , Shaoyong Huo , Zhuhua Tan , Xiaoping Xie , Jianchun Cheng

Topological materials have potential applications for quantum technologies. Non-interacting topological materials, such as e.g., topological insulators and superconductors, are classified by means of fundamental symmetry classes. It is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Titas Chanda , Rebecca Kraus , Giovanna Morigi , Jakub Zakrzewski

We discuss the origin of topological defects in phase transitions and analyze their role as a "diagnostic tool" in the study of the non-equilibrium dynamics of symmetry breaking. Homogeneous second order phase transitions are the focus of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-17 W. H. Zurek , L. M. A. Bettencourt , J. Dziarmaga , N. D. Antunes

Vortex-antivortex pairs are localized excitations and have been found to be spontaneously created in magnetic elements. In the case that the vortex and the antivortex have opposite polarities the pair has a nonzero topological charge, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Komineas

We propose a physical picture based on the wormhole effect of the path-integral formulation to explain the mechanism of entanglement spectrum (ES), such that, our picture not only explains the topological state with bulk-edge correspondence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Menghan Song , Jiarui Zhao , Zheng Yan , Zi Yang Meng

The quantization of conductance in the presence of non-magnetic point defects is a consequence of topological protection and the spin-momentum locking of helical edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators. This protection ensures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Mohadese Karimi , Mohsen Amini , Morteza Soltani , Mozhgan Sadeghizadeh

Physical configurations corresponding to topological excitations present in the XY limit of a quantum spin 1/2 Heisenberg ferromagnet, are investigated on a two dimensional square lattice. Quantum vortices(anti-vortices) are constructed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ranjan Chaudhury , Samir K. Paul

We investigate the effects of vortex interaction on the formation of interference patterns in a coherent pair of two-dimensional Bose condensed clouds of ultra-cold atoms traveling in opposite directions subject to a harmonic trapping…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-15 Tao Yang , Andrew J. Henning , Keith A. Benedict

In flat-band systems, destructive interference leads to the localization of non-interacting particles and forbids their motion through the lattice. However, in the presence of interactions the overlap between neighbouring single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-21 G. Pelegrí , A. M. Marques , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart , R. G. Dias

We derive the finite temperature oscillation modes of a harmonically confined Bose-Einstein condensed gas undergoing rigid body rotation supported by a vortex lattice in the condensate. The hydrodynamic modes separate into two classes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Armen Sedrakian , Ira Wasserman

A topological charge pump [1] transfers charge in a quantized fashion. The quantization is stable against the detailed form of the pumping protocols and external noises and shares the same topological origin as the quantum Hall effect. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-11 Lei Wang , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai

We study the influence of topological defect on the spin current as well as the spin Hall effect. We find that the nontrivial deformation of the space-time due to topological defect can generate a spin dependent current which then induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 Jian-hua Wang , Kai Ma , Kang Li

Symmetry breaking can produce ``Alice'' strings, which alter scattered charges and carry monopole number and charge when twisted into loops. We apply recent topological results, fixing Alice strings' stability and prescribing their twisting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-27 Katherine Benson , Tom Imbo

We study backscattering of electrons and conductance suppression in a helical edge channel in two-dimensional topological insulators with broken axial spin symmetry in the presence of nonmagnetic point defects that create bound states. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

The different superfluid phases of $^3$He are described by $p$-wave order parameters that include anisotropy axes both in the orbital and spin spaces. The anisotropy axes characterize the broken symmetries in these macroscopically coherent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 J. T. Mäkinen , K. Zhang , V. B. Eltsov

A Bose-Einstein condensation theory for any integer spin using noncommutative quantum mechanics methods is considered. The effective potential is derived as a multipolar expansion in the non-commutativity parameter ($\theta$) and, at second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

We investigate the role of the interparticle-interaction strength in the distribution of two species of atoms inside a condensate. We focus upon the study of systems for which the minima of the trapping potentials for the species are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. M. Jezek , P. Capuzzi

An $XY$ model, generalized by inclusion of up to an infinite number of higher-order pairwise interactions with an exponentially decreasing strength, is studied by spin-wave theory and Monte Carlo simulations. At low temperatures the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-18 Milan Žukovič , Georgii Kalagov