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We investigate dynamics of a single mobile impurity immersed in a bath of Anderson localized particles and focus on the regime of relatively strong disorder and interactions. In that regime, the dynamics of the system is particularly slow,…

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Novel topological state of matter is one of the rapidly growing fields in condensed matter physics research in recent times. While these materials are fascinating from the aspect of fundamental physics of relativistic particles, their…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-25 Ratnadwip Singha , Biswarup Satpati , Prabhat Mandal

Chiral surface states in topological insulators are robust against interactions, non-magnetic disorder and localization, yet topology does not yield protection in transport. This work presents a theory of interacting topological insulators…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Dimitrie Culcer

We consider a model describing a system where the superconductivity competes with the overscreened Kondo effect. The model consists of a single spin$-\frac{1}{2}$ quantum impurity at the edge of a quantum wire where spin$-1$ bulk fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 Pradip Kattel , Abay Zhakenov , Natan Andrei

Multichannel Kondo lattice models are examples of strongly correlated electronic systems that exhibit non-Fermi-liquid behavior due to the presence of a continuous channel symmetry. Mean-field analyses have predicted that these systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-02 Yang Ge , Yashar Komijani

The Kondo insulator SmB6 has long been known to exhibit low temperature transport anomalies whose origin is of great interest. Here we uniquely access the surface electronic structure of the anomalous transport regime by combining…

Twisting van der Waals heterostructures to induce correlated many-body states provides a novel tuning mechanism in solid-state physics. In this work, we theoretically investigate the fate of the surface Dirac cone of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Jennifer Cano , Shiang Fang , J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson

The concept of a topological Kondo insulator (TKI) has been brought forward as a new class of topological insulators in which non-trivial surface states reside in the bulk Kondo band gap at low temperature due to the strong spin-orbit…

Many-body localization (MBL) is an example of a dynamical phase of matter that avoids thermalization. While the MBL phase is robust to weak local perturbations, the fate of an MBL system coupled to a thermalizing quantum system that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-13 Pietro Brighi , Alexios A. Michailidis , Dmitry A. Abanin , Maksym Serbyn

We study the low-energy density of states of Dirac fermions in disordered d-wave superconductor. At zero energy, a finite density of states is obtained via the mechanism of dynamical mass generation in an effective (1+1)-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-23 Guo-Zhu Liu

We investigate the topological properties of the bond order wave phase arising in the extended Fermi-Hubbard model. In particular, we uncover a topological sector, which remained elusive in previous finite-size numerical studies due to…

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

Kondo breakdown is one of the most intriguing problems in strongly correlated electron systems, as it is rooted in many anomalous electron behaviors found in heavy-fermion materials. In Kondo lattice systems, Kondo breakdown can arise from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-05 Zhihui Luo , Michel Ferrero , Dao-Xin Yao , Wei Wu

Topological Kondo insulators are a rare example of an interaction-enabled topological phase of matter in three-dimensional crystals - making them an intriguing but also hard case for theoretical studies. Here, we aim to advance their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Michael Klett , Seulgi Ok , David Riegler , Peter Wölfle , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert

Impurities or boundaries often impose nontrivial boundary conditions on a gapless bulk, resulting in distinct boundary universality classes for a given bulk, phase transitions, and non-Fermi liquids in diverse systems. The underlying…

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We observe the emergence of a disorder-induced insulating state in a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas trapped in an optical lattice. This closed quantum system free of a thermal reservoir realizes the disordered Fermi-Hubbard model,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-05 S. S. Kondov , W. R. McGehee , W. Xu , B. DeMarco

We study a honeycomb Kondo lattice model in which Dirac conduction electrons are coupled to a spin-1/2 Kitaev quantum spin liquid. For weak Kondo coupling, the spins fractionalize into Majorana fermions comprising a gapless Dirac mode and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 Jennifer Lin , Frank Krüger

We consider a dimer lattice of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) type, where alternating linear couplings have a controllably small difference, and the cubic nonlinearity ($\beta$-FPUT) is the same for all interaction pairs. We use a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-27 Rajesh Chaunsali , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Dimitri Frantzeskakis , Georgios Theocharis

It has recently been established that two-dimensional massless graphene-like systems and three-dimensional line-node topological semimetals comprise a special class of centrosymmetric materials where edge/surface states of topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Ivan I. Naumov , Russell J. Hemley

We study theoretically the distributions of charge and spin polarization of a topological insulator ribbon, with a realistic rectangular cross section. Due to constriction in two lateral directions, the surface states discretize into a…

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