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In topological insulators and topological superconductors, the discrete jump of the topological invariant upon tuning a certain system parameter defines a topological phase transition. A unified framework is employed to address the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Wei Chen , Andreas P. Schnyder

We define a new scaling limit of matrix models which can be related to the method of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) used when investigating two-dimensional quantum gravity. Surprisingly, the new scaling limit of the matrix models is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , Y. Watabiki , W. Westra , S. Zohren

A phase transition is an example of a ``topological defect'' in the space of parameters of a quantum or classical many-body systems. In this paper, we consider phase diagram topological defects of higher codimension. These have the property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-14 Naren Manjunath , Dominic V. Else

We study quantum phase transitions between competing orders in one-dimensional spin systems. We focus on systems that can be mapped to a dual-field double sine-Gordon model as a bosonized effective field theory. This model contains two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-29 Shintaro Takayoshi , Shunsuke C. Furuya , Thierry Giamarchi

Topological quantum phase transitions intrinsically intertwine self-similarity and topology of many-electron wave-functions, and divining them is one of the most significant ways to advance understanding in condensed matter physics. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-27 Gil Young Cho , Eun-Gook Moon

We give a general introduction to quantum phase transitions in strongly-correlated electron systems. These transitions which occur at zero temperature when a non-thermal parameter $g$ like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Lavagna

A chiral supersolid is a quantum phase that simultaneously exhibits crystalline order, superfluidity, and topological spin texture, with spontaneously broken translational, U(1) gauge, and chiral symmetries. Here, we demonstrate a chiral…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-21 Biao Dong , Xiao-Fei Zhang , Wei Han , Renyuan Liao , Xue-Ying Yang , Wu-Ming Liu , Yong-Chang Zhang

We study $q=10$ and $q=200$ state Potts models on dynamical triangulated lattices and demonstrate that these models exhibit continuous phase transitions, contrary to the first order transition present on regular lattices. For $q=10$ the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-31 Jan Ambjorn , Gudmar Thorleifsson , Mark Wexler

We study the statistical mechanics of binary systems under gravitational interaction of the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) in three-dimensional space. Considering the binary systems, in the microcanonical and canonical ensembles, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Sohrab Rahvar , M Reza Rahimi Tabar

We investigate the order of the topological quantum phase transition in a two dimensional quadrupolar topological insulator within a thermodynamic approach. Using numerical methods, we separate the bulk, edge and corner contributions to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 R. Arouca , S. N. Kempkes , C. Morais Smith

We perform a first investigation of the coupling constant flow of the nonperturbative lattice model of four-dimensional quantum gravity given in terms of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). After explaining how standard concepts of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , A. Kreienbuehl , R. Loll

We assess experimentally and theoretically the character of the superfluid-supersolid quantum phase transition recently discovered in trapped dipolar quantum gases. We find that one-row supersolids can have already two types of phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-11 G. Biagioni , N. Antolini , A. Alaña , M. Modugno , A. Fioretti , C. Gabbanini , L. Tanzi , G. Modugno

The formalism of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) attempts to provide a non-perturbative regularization of quantum gravity, viewed as an ordinary quantum field theory. In two dimensions one can solve the lattice theory analytically and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , A. Ipsen

The physical phase of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is known to be described by an effective, one-dimensional action in which three-volumes of the underlying foliation of the full CDT play a role of the sole degrees of freedom. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 L. Bogacz , Z. Burda , B. Waclaw

We show recent results of the application of spectral analysis in the setting of the Monte Carlo approach to Quantum Gravity known as Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), discussing the behavior of the lowest lying eigenvalues of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-25 Giuseppe Clemente , Massimo D'Elia , Alessandro Ferraro

We describe the motivation behind the recent formulation of a nonperturbative path integral for Lorentzian quantum gravity defined through Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). In the case of two dimensions the model is analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Zohren

The Causal Dynamical Triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity is a lattice approximation to the gravitational path integral. Developed by Ambj\o{}rn, Jurkiewicz and Loll, it has yielded some important results, notably the emergence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Rajesh Kommu

Aiming at a better understanding of anomalous and topological effects in gauge theories out-of-equilibrium, we study the real-time dynamics of a prototype model for CP-violation, the massive Schwinger model with a $\theta$-term. We identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 T. V. Zache , N. Mueller , J. T. Schneider , F. Jendrzejewski , J. Berges , P. Hauke

Recent results obtained within a non-perturbative approach to quantum gravity based on the method of four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations are described. The phase diagram of the model consists of three phases. In the physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-30 Andrzej Görlich

Mixed-order phase transitions display a discontinuity in the order parameter like first-order transitions yet feature critical behavior like second-order transitions. Such transitions have been predicted for a broad range of equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-07 Ricard Alert , Pietro Tierno , Jaume Casademunt