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Corner Charge Fluctuations in Higher Dimensions

强关联电子 2026-05-15 v1 介观与纳米尺度物理 统计力学 高能物理 - 理论

摘要

Measuring charge fluctuations within a subregion provides a powerful probe of quantum many-body systems. In two spatial dimensions, the shape dependence of the dimensionless corner contribution encodes universal data of quantum critical points and reveals observables of quantum geometry in various quantum phases. Here, we systematically extend this framework to higher dimensions. In three dimensions, we derive the universal angle dependence associated with trihedral corners of a generic parallelepiped and benchmark the predictions against Monte Carlo simulations of lattice models at the O(3) quantum critical point. We further identify a wedge-corner contribution that directly probes the quantum metric, supported by numerical results for a lattice Weyl semimetal model. More generally, we obtain angle functions for polyhedral corners of arbitrary parallelotopes in general dimensions and clarify the scaling of the corner contribution across phases of matter. While insulators and conformal critical points exhibit similar behavior across dimensions, metals display a characteristic even-odd dimensional effect.

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@article{arxiv.2605.13971,
  title  = {Corner Charge Fluctuations in Higher Dimensions},
  author = {Xiao-Chuan Wu and Pok Man Tam and Xuyang Liang and Zenan Liu and Dao-Xin Yao and Zheng Yan and Shinsei Ryu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13971},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22 pages, 6 figures