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We study finite temperature topological phase transitions of the Kitaev's spin honeycomb model in the vortex-free sector with the use of the recently introduced mean Uhlmann curvature. We employ an appropriate Fermionisation procedure to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Francesco Bascone , Luca Leonforte , Bernardo Spagnolo , Davide Valenti , Angelo Carollo

We develop a finite temperature mean field theory in the path integral picture for an extremely dilute system of interacting Fermions in a plane. In the limit of short ranged interactions, the system is shown to undergo a phase transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Agarwal , S. G. Rajeev

Fathoming interplay between symmetry and topology of many-electron wave-functions has deepened understanding of quantum many body systems, especially after the discovery of topological insulators. Topology of electron wave-functions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-15 SangEun Han , Gil Young Cho , Eun-Gook Moon

We study one-component fermions in chain lattices with proximity-induced superconducting gap and interparticle short-range interaction, capable of hosting Majorana fermions. By systematically tracking various physical quantities, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-22 Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Kuei Sun

Motivated by the recent progress in engineering artificial non-Abelian gauge fields for ultracold fermions in optical lattices, we investigate the time-reversal-invariant Hofstadter-Hubbard model. We include an additional staggered lattice…

In this paper, we investigate signatures of topological phase transitions in interacting systems. We show that the key signature is the existence of a topologically protected level crossing, which is robust and sharply defines the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-08 Christopher N. Varney , Kai Sun , Marcos Rigol , Victor Galitski

We study the response of a thermal state of the Hubbard-like system to either global or local non-Hermitian perturbation, which coalesces the degenerate ground state within the $U(1)$ symmetry breaking phase. We show that the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-08 X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

Higher-order topological crystalline phases in low-dimensional interacting quantum systems represent a challenging and largely unexplored research topic. Here, we derive a Hamiltonian describing fermions interacting through correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-04 A. Montorsi , U. Bhattacharya , Daniel González-Cuadra , M. Lewenstein , G. Palumbo , L. Barbiero

We study one-dimensional disordered fermions that either undergo metal-insulator transitions or topological phase transitions to become trivial Anderson insulators. We focus on using entanglement to elucidate how the spatial, momentum, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-01 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Taylor L. Hughes

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess conducting edge states at their boundary while being insulating in the bulk. The detection of edge states remains an open question in ultracold atom setups. We propose a configuration to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Bernhard Irsigler , Jun-Hui Zheng , Walter Hofstetter

Geometric phases play a fundamental role in understanding quantum topology, yet extending the Uhlmann phase to non-Hermitian systems poses significant challenges due to parameter-dependent inner product structures. In this work, we develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Xu-Yang Hou , Xin Wang , Hao Guo

We study the geometric Uhlmann phase of entangled mixed states in a composite system made of two coupled spin-$\frac 1 2$ particles with a magnetic field acting on one of them. Within a depolarizing channel setup, an exact analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 J. Villavicencio , E. Cota , F. Rojas , J. A. Maytorena , D. Morachis Galindo

In this paper we show how the classification of topological phases in insulators and superconductors is changed by interactions, in the case of 1D systems. We focus on the TR-invariant Majorana chain (BDI symmetry class). While the band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Lukasz Fidkowski , Alexei Kitaev

We investigate the fidelity susceptibility (FS) of a two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled (SOC) Fermi superfluid and the topological phase transition driven by a Zeeman field in the perspective of its ground-state wave-function. Without…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Xuebing Luo , Kezhao Zhou , Wuming Liu , Zhaoxin Liang , Zhidong Zhang

The realization of artificial gauge fields in ultracold atomic gases has opened up a path towards experimental studies of topological insulators and, as an ultimate goal, topological quantum matter in many-body systems. As an alternative to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 Leo Stenzel , Andrew L. C. Hayward , Claudius Hubig , Ulrich Schollwöck , Fabian Heidrich-Meisner

The Uhlmann process is built on the density matrix of a mixed quantum state and offers a way to characterize topological properties at finite temperatures. We analyze an ideal spin-j quantum paramagnet in a magnetic field undergoing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

I begin with a proposed global phase diagram of the cuprate superconductors as a function of carrier concentration, magnetic field, and temperature, and highlight its connection to numerous recent experiments. The phase diagram is then used…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-25 Subir Sachdev

Three-dimensional line-nodal superconductors exhibit nontrivial topology, which is protected by the time-reversal symmetry. Here we investigate four types of short-range interaction between the gapless line-nodal fermionic quasiparticles by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-15 Jing Wang

We describe boundary effects in superconducting systems with Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superconducting instability, using Bogoliubov-de-Gennes and Ginzburg-Landau (GL) formalisms. First, we show that in dimensions larger than…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-22 Albert Samoilenka , Mats Barkman , Andrea Benfenati , Egor Babaev

We propose and analyze an interface between a topological qubit and a superconducting flux qubit. In our scheme, the interaction between Majorana fermions in a topological insulator is coherently controlled by a superconducting phase that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Liang Jiang , Charles L. Kane , John Preskill