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An unconventional bosonization approach that employs a modified Fermi-Bose correspondence is used to obtain the tunneling density of states (TDOS) of fractional quantum Hall (FQHE) edges in the vicinity of a point contact. The chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Nikhil Danny Babu , Girish S. Setlur

We consider interacting one-dimensional, spinless Fermi gases, whose low-energy properties are described by Luttinger liquid theory. We perform a systematic, in-depth analysis of the relation between the macroscopic, phenomenological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-15 Manuel Valiente , Lawrence G. Phillips , Nikolaj T. Zinner , Patrik Ohberg

We study current carrying helical edge states in a two-dimensional topological insulator coupled to an environment of localized spins, i.e. a spin bath. The localized spins mediate elastic spin-flip scattering between the helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Anders Mathias Lunde , Gloria Platero

Helical edge states exist in the mixed spin-singlet and -triplet phase of a noncentrosymmetric superconductor (NCSS) when the pair amplitude (PA) in the negative helicity band, $\Delta_-$, is smaller than the PA in the positive helicity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Soumya P. Mukherjee , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We present a unified framework for the renormalisation of the Hamiltonian and eigenbasis of a system of correlated electrons, unveiling thereby the interplay between electronic correlations and many-particle entanglement. For this, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-25 Anirban Mukherjee , Siddhartha Lal

We show that electron tunneling from edge states in two-dimensional topological insulator into a parallel electron waveguide leads to the appearance of spin-polarized current in the waveguide. The spin polarization $P$ can be very close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov

We argue that a class of strongly spin-orbit coupled materials, including some pyrochlore iridates and the inverted band gap semiconductor HgTe, may be described by a minimal model consisting of the Luttinger Hamiltonian supplemented by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-20 Eun-Gook Moon , Cenke Xu , Yong Baek Kim , Leon Balents

Haldane hypothesis about the universality of Luttinger liquid (LL) behavior in conducting one-dimensional (1D) fermion systems is checked numerically for spinless fermion model with next-nearest-neighbor interactions. It is shown that for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. K. Zhuravlev , M. I. Katsnelson

We consider the tilted-hexatic Hamiltonian on the fluctuating membranes. A renormalization-group analysis leads us to find two critical regions; one corresponds to the strong coupling regime of the gradient cross coupling, the other to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeong-Man Park

This paper proposes a quantitative description of the low energy edge states at the interface between two-dimensional topological insulators. They are modeled by continuous Hamiltonians as systems of Dirac equations that are amenable to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Guillaume Bal

Helical edge modes are characteristic of topological insulators in two dimensions. This paper demonstrates that helical edge modes remain across transitions to ordinary insulators or to semimetals under certain condition. Straight and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Shijun Mao , Yoshio Kuramoto

A general nonperturbative theory of the low-energy electron propagator is developed and used to calculate the single-particle density of states in a variety of systems. This method involves the decoupling of the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-17 Kelly R. Patton

We discuss a platform for the synthetic realization of key physical properties of helical Tomonaga Luttinger liquids (HTLLs) with ultracold fermionic atoms in one-dimensional optical lattices. The HTLL is a strongly correlated metallic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-17 J. C. Budich , C. Laflamme , F. Tschirsich , S. Montangero , P. Zoller

Topological behavior has been observed in quantum systems including ultracold atoms. However, background harmonic traps for cold-atoms hinder direct detection of topological edge states arising at the boundary because the distortion fuses…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-17 Mekena Metcalf , Chen-Yen Lai , Kevin Wright , Chih-Chun Chien

We describe a protocol to read out the topological invariant of interacting 1D chiral models, based on measuring the mean chiral displacement of time-evolving bulk excitations. We present analytical calculations and numerical Matrix Product…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-06 Andreas Haller , Pietro Massignan , Matteo Rizzi

In the paper we dscuss experimental results of M. Grayson et al. on tunneling $I$-$V$ characteristics of the quantum Hall edge. We suggest a two step tunneling mechanism involving localized electron states near the edge, which might account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Alekseev , V. Cheianov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

By using Wilsonian Renormalization Group (RG) methods we rigorously establish the existence of a Weyl semimetallic phase in an interacting three dimensional fermionic lattice system, by showing that the zero temperature Schwinger functions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Vieri Mastropietro

The twig edge states in graphene-like structures are viewed as the fourth states complementary to their zigzag, bearded, and armchair counterparts. In this work, we study a rod-in-plasma system in honeycomb lattice with twig edge truncation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jianfei Li , Jingfeng Yao , Ying Wang , Zhongxiang Zhou , Zhihao Lan , Chengxun Yuan

We show that edges of Quantum Spin Hall topological insulators represent a natural platform for realization of exotic supersolid phase. On one hand, fermionic edge modes are helical due to the nontrivial topology of the bulk. On the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 O. M. Yevtushenko , A. M. Tsvelik

Chiral edge states of 2+1 dimensional Abelian and non-Abelian topological phases can be represented by chiral conformal field theories with integer and non-integer values of central charge, respectively. In this work we describe certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 Carlos A. Hernaski , Pedro R. S. Gomes