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A key feature of topological insulators is the robustness of the electron energy spectrum. At a surface of a topological insulator, Dirac point is protected by the characteristic symmetry of the system. The breaking of the symmetry opens a…

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We study the ground state properties of spin-1 bosons in a two-dimensional optical lattice, by applying a variational Monte Carlo method to the S=1 Bose-Hubbard model on a square lattice at unit filling. A doublon-holon binding factor…

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We introduce a two-dimensional (2D) discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation with self-attractive cubic nonlinearity in a rotating reference frame. The model applies to a Bose-Einstein condensate stirred by a rotating strong…

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We performed rheological measurements of the typical deep eutectic solvents (DESs) glyceline, ethaline, and reline in a very broad temperature and dynamic range, extending from the low-viscosity to the high-viscosity supercooled-liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-26 D. Reuter , P. Münzner , C. Gainaru , P. Lunkenheimer , A. Loidl , R. Böhmer

The properties of the strongly interacting edge states of two dimensional topological insulators in the presence of two particle backscattering are investigated. We find an anomalous behavior of the density-density correlation functions,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 N. Traverso Ziani , F. Crépin , B. Trauzettel

Combining high-temperature expansions with the recursion method and quantum Monte Carlo simulations with the maximum entropy method, we study the dynamics of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain at temperatures above and below the coupling J. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 O. A. Starykh , A. W. Sandvik , R. R. P. Singh

Electrons hopping on the sites of a three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice are shown to form topologically non-trivial insulating phases when the spin-orbit (SO) coupling and lattice distortions are present. Of 16 possible topological classes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. -M. Guo , M. Franz

Understanding substrate effects on spin dynamics and relaxation in two-dimensional (2D) materials is of key importance for spintronics and quantum information applications. However, the key factors that determine the substrate effect on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Junqing Xu , Yuan Ping

The spin-polarized surface states in topological insulators offer unique transport characteristics that make them distinguishable from trivial conductors. Here, we detect the impact of these surface states in the topological insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Shaham Jafarpisheh , Frank Volmer , Zhiwei Wang , Bárbara Canto , Yoichi Ando , Christoph Stampfer , Bernd Beschoten

We study the finite-temperature dynamical spin susceptibility of the one-dimensional (generalized) anisotropic Heisenberg model within the hydrodynamic regime of small wave vectors and frequencies. Numerical results are analyzed using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-10 J. Herbrych , R. Steinigeweg , P. Prelovšek

We investigate interacting spin susceptibilities in lattice models for $\mathcal{T}$-reversal symmetry-broken Weyl semimetals. We employ a random phase approximation (RPA) method for the spin-SU(2)-symmetry-broken case that includes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-29 Feng Xiong , Xingjie Han , Carsten Honerkamp

As an exotic quantum condensed matter, the topological insulator (TI) is a bulk-insulating material with a Dirac-type conducting surface state. Such dissipationless transport of topological surface states (TSSs) is protected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Shuai Zhang , Zhaoguo Li , Fengqi Song

It is a salient experimental fact that a large fraction of candidate spin liquid materials freeze as the temperature is lowered. The question naturally arises whether such freezing is intrinsic to the spin liquid ("disorder-free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-26 Arnab Sen , R. Moessner

5$d$ transition metal oxides host a variety of exotic phases due to the comparable strength of Coulomb repulsion and spin-orbit coupling. Herein, by pursuing density-functional studies on a delta-doped quasi-two-dimensional iridate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-16 Amit Chauhan , Arijit Mandal , B. R. K. Nanda

We study the thermodynamics of discrete breathers by transforming a lattice of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators into an effective Ising pseudospin model. We introduce a replica ensemble and investigate the effective system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Eleftheriou , G. P. Tsironis

Recently, moir\'e superlattices have been found on the surface of topological insulators (TI) due to the rotational misalignment of topmost layers. In this work, we study the effects of moir\'e superlattices on the topological surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-03 Taige Wang , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

We study the spin dynamics in a high-mobility two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with generic spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). We derive a set of spin dynamic equations which capture the purely exponential to the damped oscillatory spin…

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Spin fluctuation-induced superconductivity in quasi-two dimensional organic compounds, \kappa-BEDT-TTF salts, is investigated within a fluctuation exchange (FLEX) approximation using a half-filled Hubbard model with a right-angled isosceles…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-15 Hisashi Kondo , Tôru Moriya

The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Lv , James Kally , Delin Zhang , Joon Sue Lee , Mahdi Jamali , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

The compound SmB$_6$ is a Kondo Insulator, where the lowest-energy bulk electronic excitations are spin excitons. It also has surface states that are subjected to strong spin-orbit coupling. It has been suggested that SmB$_6$ is also a…

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