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A free fermion without doubler is formulated on 1+D dimensional discrete Minkowski space-time. The action is not hermitian but causes no harm. In 1+3 dimensional massless case the equation describes a single species of Dirac particle in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hayashi , T. Hashimoto , M. Horibe , H. Yamamoto

We study a $U(1)\times U(1)$ system in (2+1)-dimensions with long-range interactions and mutual statistics. The model has the same form after the application of operations from the modular group, a property which we call modular invariance.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Scott D. Geraedts , Olexei I. Motrunich

We propose a method, based on matrix product states, for studying the time evolution of many-body quantum lattice systems under continuous and site-resolved measurement. Both the frequency and the strength of generalized measurements can be…

Consider a one-dimensional stepping stone model with colonies of size $M$ and per-generation migration probability $\nu$, or a voter model on $\mathbb{Z}$ in which interactions occur over a distance of order $K$. Sample one individual at…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-28 Richard Durrett , Mateo Restrepo

Measurement-induced phase transitions are nonequilibrium transitions between phases characterized by distinct entanglement scaling behaviors, driven by the competition between unitary dynamics and measurements. Despite recent numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yunxiang Liao , Max Matheussen , Xinghai Zhang

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions (MIET) highlight how local measurements drive quantum systems between area-law and volume-law entangled states. This review surveys MIET in free fermion models, focusing on how unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Han-Ze Li , Jian-Xin Zhong , Xue-Jia Yu

We provide the first example of interacting quantized Carrollian Dirac fermions and investigate their discrete symmetries, including charge conjugation (C), parity (P), and time reversal (T) transformations. As a toy model, we couple these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Ertuğrul Ekiz , Emre Onur Kahya , Utku Zorba

We identify an unconventional algebraic scaling phase in the quantum dynamics of free fermions with long range hopping, which are exposed to continuous local density measurements. The unconventional phase is characterized by an algebraic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-19 Thomas Müller , Sebastian Diehl , Michael Buchhold

Theoretically, a pair of Majorana bound states in a topological superconductor forms a single fermionic level even at large separations, implying that the parity information is stored nonlocally. The nonlocality leads to a long-distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Zheng Shi , Piet W. Brouwer , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Majorana fermions exist on the boundaries of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) as charge-neutral quasi-particles. The neutrality makes the detection of such states challenging from both experimental and theoretical points…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-30 James Jun He , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

In this Letter we study the effect of topological zero modes on entanglement Hamiltonians and entropy of free chiral fermion systems in (1+1)d. We show how Riemann-Hilbert solutions combined with finite rank perturbation theory allow us to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 Israel Klich , Diana Vaman , Gabriel Wong

We study the quantum dynamics of Majorana and regular fermion bound states coupled to a quasi-one-dimensional metallic lead. The dynamics following the quench in the coupling to the lead exhibits a series of dynamical revivals as the bound…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-30 Daniel Dahan , Mostafa Tanhayi Ahari , Gerardo Ortiz , Babak Seradjeh , Eytan Grosfeld

This study investigates the entanglement properties of disordered free fermion systems undergoing an Anderson phase transition from a delocalized to a localized phase. The entanglement entropy is employed to quantify the degree of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-26 Mohammad Pouranvari

We present a general and simple formula for computing the entanglement negativity in free fermions. Our formula allows for deriving several universal bounds on negativity and its rate of change in dynamics. The bound on negativity directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Ryota Matsuda , Zongping Gong

Chiral Majorana fermion is a massless self-conjugate fermion which can arise as the edge state of certain two-dimensonal topological matters. It has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in a hybrid device of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Biao Lian , Xiao-Qi Sun , Abolhassan Vaezi , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations we study the ground-state properties of the one-dimensional fermionic Hubbard model in traps with an underlying lattice. Since due to the confining potential the density is space dependent,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcos Rigol , Alejandro Muramatsu

We consider the statistical mechanics of a class of models involving close-packed loops with fugacity $n$ on three-dimensional lattices. The models exhibit phases of two types as a coupling constant is varied: in one, all loops are finite,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-15 Adam Nahum , J. T. Chalker , P. Serna , M. Ortuno , A. M. Somoza

Superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect are considered to be two cornerstones of condensed matter physics. The realization of hybrid structures where these two effects coexist has recently become an active field of research. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Semiconducting nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the proximity with a superconductor and under a strong Zeeman field can potentially manifest Majorana zero modes at their edges and are a topical candidate for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Arnav Arora , Abhishek Kejriwal , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

A study of spinless matter fermions coupled to a constrained $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ lattice gauge theory on a triangular ladder is presented. The triangular unit cell and the ladder geometry strongly modify the physics, as compared to previous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-22 Wolfram Brenig