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The geometrically frustrated Kitaev magnets are demonstrated to be fertile playgrounds that allow for the occurrence of exotic phenomena, including topological phases and the thermal Hall effect. Notwithstanding the established consensus…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-06 Zixuan Zou , Qiang Luo

Lattice spin models featuring kinetic constraints constitute a paradigmatic setting for the investigation of glassiness and localization phenomena. The intricate dynamical behavior of these systems is a result of the dramatically reduced…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-16 Tobias Kaltenmark , Chris Nill , Christian Groß , Igor Lesanovsky

The electronic structure of the lightly hole-doped triangular-lattice moir\'e Hubbard model is studied within cluster perturbation theory (CPT) using 13-site clusters for a fixed doping concentration $p=1/13$ varying the Coulomb parameter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 V. I. Kuz'min , M. A. Visotin , S. G. Ovchinnikov

We study the excitations in a three dimensional version of Kitaev's spin-1/2 model on the honeycomb lattice introduced by the present authors recently. The gapped phase of the system is analyzed using a low energy effective Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-03 Saptarshi Mandal , Naveen Surendran

We propose a Haldane-like model of dice lattice analogous to graphene and explore its topological properties within the tight-binding formalism. The topological phase boundary of the system is identical to that of Haldane model of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Bashab Dey , Priyadarshini Kapri , Ojasvi Pal , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We study the spin-1 excitation spectra of the flatband ferromagnetic phases in interacting topological insulators. As a paradigm, we consider a quarter filled square lattice Hubbard model whose free part is the $\pi$ flux state with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-16 Xiao-Fei Su , Zhao-Long Gu , Zhao-Yang Dong , Shun-Li Yu , Jian-Xin Li

A model cluster, with a resonant electron spin surrounded with identical nuclear spins occupying the sites of a cubic lattice, and with dipolar coupling between the spins, is used for a theoretical investigation of the transient nutations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Alain Deville , Anne-Marie Daré , Julien Azema

We develop a symmetry indicator framework to efficiently predict the topology of superlattice-induced minibands with spin-orbit coupling. Our algorithm requires input only from the parent material before the superlattice is applied. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 M. Nabil Y. Lhachemi , Valentin Crépel , Jennifer Cano

Arrays of highly excited Rydberg atoms can be used as powerful quantum simulation platforms. Here, we introduce an approach that makes it possible to implement fully controllable effective spin interactions in such systems. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Xiaoling Wu , Fan Yang , Shuo Yang , Klaus Mølmer , Thomas Pohl , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

We investigate the fine and spin structure of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules exposed to a homogeneous magnetic field. Each molecule consists of a $^{87}$Rb Rydberg atom whose outer electron interacts via spin-dependent $s$- and p-wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Frederic Hummel , Christian Fey , Peter Schmelcher

We present how a phase factor is generated when an electric dipole moves along a closed trajectory inside a magnetic field gradient. The similarity of this situation with charged particles in a magnetic field can be employed to simulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiannis K. Pachos

We explore the magnetic properties of a two-dimensional Hubbard model on an inhomogeneous square lattice, which provides a platform for tuning the bandwidth of the flat band. In its limit, this inhomogeneous square lattice turns into a Lieb…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiao Zhang , Runyu Ma , Zenghui Fan , Zixuan Jia , Lufeng Zhang , Tianxing Ma

We investigate the electronic structure of the flat bands induced by moir\'e superlattices and electric fields in nearly aligned ABC trilayer graphene-boron nitride interfaces where Coulomb effects can lead to correlated gapped phases. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Bheema Lingam Chittari , Guorui Chen , Yuanbo Zhang , Feng Wang , Jeil Jung

A two-dimensional kagome lattice is theoretically investigated within a simple tight-binding model, which includes the nearest neighbor hopping term and the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction between the next nearest neighbors. By using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

We examine topological phases and symmetry-protected electronic edge states in the context of a Rydberg composite: a Rydberg atom interfaced with a structured arrangement of ground-state atoms. The electronic Hamiltonian of such a composite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Matthew T. Eiles , Christopher W. Wächtler , Alexander Eisfeld , Jan M. Rost

We present a setup with Rydberg atoms for the realization of a bosonic fractional Chern insulator in artificial matter. The suggested setup relies on Rydberg atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, where excitations hop through the lattice…

The dynamical structure factor is an important observable of quantum magnets but due to numerical and theoretical limitations, it remains a challenge to make predictions for Hubbard-like models beyond one dimension. In this work, we study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Josef Willsher , Hui-Ke Jin , Johannes Knolle

Tunable magnetic interactions in high-mobility nonmagnetic semiconductor heterostructures are centrally important to spin-based quantum technologies. Conventionally, this requires incorporation of "magnetic impurities" within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Siegert , Arindam Ghosh , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie

We study the generation of metrologically useful entanglement in a three-level (spin-1) system naturally realized in arrays of dipole-interacting Rydberg atoms confined in optical tweezers. In the spin-quadrupolar operator basis, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Sakshi Bahamnia , Thomas Bilitewski

We observe interband transitions mediated by the dipole-dipole interaction for an array of 1D quantum gases of chromium atoms, trapped in a 2D optical lattice. Interband transitions occur when dipolar relaxation releases an energy which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Pasquiou , G. Bismut , E. Maréchal , P. Pedri , L. Vernac , O. Gorceix , B. Laburthe-Tolra