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We investigate topological transport in a spin-orbit coupled bosonic Mott insulator. We show that interactions can lead to anomalous quasi-particle dynamics even when the spin-orbit coupling is abelian. To illustrate the latter, we consider…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-21 C. H. Wong , R. A. Duine

We study heat transport in a one-dimensional inhomogeneous quantum spin 1/2 system. It consists of a finite-size XX spin chain coupled at its ends to semi-infinite XX and XY chains at different temperatures, which play the role of heat and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano , A. A. Aligia

We review some recent results from the mathematical theory of transport of charge and spin in gapped crystalline quantum systems. The emphasis will be in transport coefficients like conductivities and conductances. As for the former, those…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Giovanna Marcelli , Domenico Monaco

Many experimentally relevant quantum spin chains are approximately integrable, and support long-lived quasiparticle excitations. A canonical example of integrable model of quantum magnetism is the XXZ spin chain, for which energy spreads…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-03 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

We found a plateau in the magnitude of the isolated magnetic moments as a function of the anisotropy of the transfer integral (t'/t) in the gapless quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase of an S=1/2 triangular lattice molecular solid X[Pd(dmit)2]2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-20 K. Ueda , S. Fujiyama , R. Kato

Spin superfluids enable long-distance spin transport through classical ferromagnets by developing topologically stable magnetic textures. For small spins at low dimensions, however, the topological protection suffers from strong quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Silas Hoffman , Daniel Loss , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study the spin transport through the quantum spin liquid (QSL) by investigating the real-time and real-space dynamics of the Kitaev spin system with a zigzag structure in terms of the time-dependent Majorana mean-field theory. After the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-27 Tetsuya Minakawa , Yuta Murakami , Akihisa Koga , Joji Nasu

Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled states of quantum magnets which lie beyond the Landau paradigm of classifying phases of matter via broken symmetries. A physical route to arriving at QSLs is via frustration-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Ciarán Hickey , Lukasz Cincio , Zlatko Papić , Arun Paramekanti

The topological quantum spin liquids (SL) and the nature of quantum phase transitions between them have attracted intensive attentions for the past twenty years. The extended kagome spin-1/2 antiferromagnet emerges as the primary candidate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 W. Zhu , S. S. Gong , D. N. Sheng

Quantum transport for a spin-1 chiral fermion is studied within the self-consistent Born approximation. We find characteristic properties around zero energy, i.e., the peak structure of the density of states and significant suppression of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Risako Kikuchi , Takumi Funato , Ai Yamakage

Liquid He-4 is free from magnetic defects, making it an ideal substrate for electrons with long-lived spin states. Such states can serve as qubit states. Here we consider the spin states of electrons electrostatically localized in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 M. I. Dykman , Ofek Asban , Qianfan Chen , Dafei Jin , S. A. Lyon

We derive the quantum kinetic theory for fermions with arbitrary mass in a background electromagnetic field from the Wigner-function approach. Since spin of massive fermions is a dynamical degree of freedom, the kinetic equations with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-27 Koichi Hattori , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Di-Lun Yang

The spin dynamics and spin relaxation of itinerant electrons in quantum wires with spin-orbit coupling is reviewed. We give an introduction to spin dynamics, and review spin-orbit coupling mechanisms in semiconductors. The spin diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Paul Wenk , Stefan Kettemann

The conventional definition of spin current is incomplete and unphysical in describing spin transport in systems with spin-orbit coupling. A proper and measurable spin current is established in this study, which fits well into the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junren Shi , Ping Zhang , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

In this paper, we explore the relationship between strong spin-orbit coupling and spin liquid physics. We study a very general model on the triangular lattice where spin-orbit coupling leads to the presence of highly anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-16 Jason Iaconis , Chunxiao Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

Quantum spin liquids represent a magnetic ground state arising in the presence of strong quantum fluctuations that preclude ordering down to zero temperature and leave clear fingerprints in the excitation spectra. While theory bears a…

In condensed matter physics, there is a novel phase termed "quantum spin liquid", in which strong quantum fluctuations prevent the long-range magnetic order from being established, and so the electron spins do not form an ordered pattern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Jinsheng Wen , Shun-Li Yu , Shiyan Li , Weiqiang Yu , Jian-Xin Li

We theoretically investigate transport in a spin incoherent one dimensional electron system, which may be realized in quantum wires at low electron density and finite temperature. Both the pure and disordered cases are considered, both in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Karyn Le Hur , Leon Balents

Quantum spin liquids are a new class of magnetic ground state in which spins are quantum mechanically entangled over macroscopic scales. Motivated by recent advances in the control of polar molecules, we show that dipolar interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-23 Norman Y. Yao , Michael P. Zaletel , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn , Ashvin Vishwanath