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We report the first detection of the Higgs-type amplitude mode using Bragg spectroscopy in a strongly interacting condensate of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. By the comparison of our experimental data with a spatially resolved,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-06-01 U. Bissbort , S. Götze , Y. Li , J. Heinze , J. S. Krauser , M. Weinberg , C. Becker , K. Sengstock , W. Hofstetter

Higgs and Goldstone modes, well known in high energy physics, have been realized in a number of condensed matter physics contexts, including superconductivity and magnetism. The Goldstone-Higgs concept is also applicable to and gives rise…

By studying the 2-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Bose-Hubbard model, we show the existence of topological Higgs amplitude modes in the strongly interacting superfluid phase. Using the slave boson approach, we find that, in the large…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-01 Junsen Wang , Youjin Deng , Wei Zheng

Using a state-of-the-art numerical scheme, we show that the Higgs mode under excitation exhibits chirped oscillations and exponential decay when fluctuations are included. This is in stark contrast to conventional BCS collisionless dynamics…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Thomas Blommel , Jason Kaye , Yuta Murakami , Emanuel Gull , Denis Golež

Using Ferromagnetic Fermi liquid theory, Bedell and Blagoev derived the collective low-energy excitations of a weak ferromagnet. They obtained the well-known magnon (Nambu-Goldstone) mode and found a new gapped mode that was never studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-13 Yi Zhang , Paulo F. Farinas , Kevin S. Bedell

Third-harmonic generation (THG) experiments on superconductors can be used to investigate collective excitations like the amplitude mode of the order parameter known as Higgs mode. These modes are visible due to resonances in the THG signal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-16 Lukas Schwarz , Rafael Haenel , Dirk Manske

The Higgs amplitude mode in superconductors is the condensed matter analogy of Higgs bosons in particle physics. We investigate the time evolution of Higgs amplitude mode in massless Dirac systems, induced by a weak quench of an attractive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-31 Ming Lu , Haiwen Liu , Pei Wang , X. C. Xie

A massive Goldstone (MG) mode, often referred to as a Higgs amplitude mode, is a collective excitation that arises in a system involving spontaneous breaking of a continuous symmetry, along with a gapless Nambu-Goldstone mode. It has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-07 Shunji Tsuchiya , Daisuke Yamamoto , Ryosuke Yoshii , Muneto Nitta

Superfluid helium, describable by a two-component order parameter, exhibits only the Bogolubov mode with energy $\to 0$ at long wavelengths, while a Lorentz-invariant theory with a two-component order parameter exhibits a finite energy mode…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Varma

Where in the landscape of many-body phases of matter do we place the Higgs condensate of a gauge theory? On the one hand, the Higgs phase is gapped, has no local order parameter, and for fundamental Higgs fields is adiabatically connected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-18 Ruben Verresen , Umberto Borla , Ashvin Vishwanath , Sergej Moroz , Ryan Thorngren

Experimental evidence of the Higgs mode in strongly interacting superfluid Fermi gases had not been observed until recently [Behrle et al., Nat. Phys. 14, 781 (2018)]. Due to the coupling with other collective modes and quasiparticle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-02 Guitao Lyu , Kui-Tian Xi , Sukjin Yoon , Qijin Chen , Gentaro Watanabe

We derive the collective low energy excitations of the quantum phase model of interacting lattice bosons within the superfluid state using a dynamical variational approach. We recover the well known sound (or Goldstone) mode and derive a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-08 S. D. Huber , B. Theiler , E. Altman , G. Blatter

We investigate the life cycle of the large amplitude Higgs mode in strongly interacting superfluid Fermi gas. Through numerical simulations with time-dependent density-functional theory and the technique of the interaction quench, we verify…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-17 Andrea Barresi , Antoine Boulet , Gabriel Wlazłowski , Piotr Magierski

Lifshitz invariant is a symmetry invariant composed of multiple order parameters that contain a single spatial derivative in a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) free energy, which may induce a nonuniform configuration of the order parameters. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-11 Raigo Nagashima , Titouan Mouilleron , Naoto Tsuji

Below a continuous symmetry breaking phase transition, the relevant collective excitations are due to longitudinal and transverse fluctuations of the order parameter, which are referred to as Higgs and Goldstone modes, respectively. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-29 Bryan T. Fichera , Ajesh Kumar , Baiqing Lv , Zongqi Shen , Karna Morey , Qian Song , Batyr Ilyas , Tianchuang Luo , Riccardo Comin , T. Senthil , Nuh Gedik

The Hubbard model is reformulated in terms of different ``colored'' fermion species for the electrons or holes at different lattice sites. Antiferromagnetic ordering or d-wave superconductivity can then be described in terms of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Tobias Baier , Eike Bick , Christof Wetterich

We study the observability of the Higgs mode in BEC-BCS crossover. The observability of Higgs mode is investigated by calculating the spectral weight functions of the amplitude fluctuation below the critical transition temperature. At zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-14 Xinloong Han , Boyang Liu , Jiangping Hu

By applying a microscopic gauge-invariant kinetic theory in $d$-wave superconductors, we analytically derive the energy spectra of the breathing Higgs mode and, in particular, rotating Higgs mode that is unique for the $d$-wave order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-27 F. Yang , M. W. Wu

I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative $S$-matrix in $4d$. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent complex factorisation of $2\rightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Timothy Trott

Collective excitation modes are a characteristic feature of symmetry-broken phases of matter. For example, superconductors exhibit an amplitude Higgs mode and a phase mode, which are the radial and angular excitations in the Mexican-hat…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-22 H. Krull , N. Bittner , G. S. Uhrig , D. Manske , A. P. Schnyder