The lattice Boltzmann phononic lattice solid

I present a Boltzmann lattice gas-like approach for modeling compressional waves in an inhomogeneous medium as a first step toward developing a method to simulate seismic waves in complex solids. The method is based on modeling particles in a discrete lattice with wavelike characteristics of partial reflection and transmission when passing between links with different properties as well as phononlike interactions (i.e., collisions), with particle speed dependent on link properties. In the macroscopic limit, this approach theoretically yields compressional waves in an inhomogeneous acoustic medium. Numerical experiments verify the method and demonstrate its convergence properties. The lattice Boltzmann phononic lattice solid could be used to study how seismic wave anisotropy and attenuation are related to microfractures, the complex geometry of rock matrices, and their couplings to pore fluids. However, additional particles related to the two transverse phonons must be incorporated to correctly simulate wave phenomena in solids.     

Half-filled Kondo lattice on the honeycomb lattice

The unique linear density of state around the Dirac points for the honeycomb lattice brings much novel features in strongly correlated models. Here we study the ground-state phase diagram of the Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling by using an extended mean-field theory. By treating magnetic interaction and Kondo screening on an equal footing, it is found that besides a trivial discontinuous first-order quantum phase transition between well-defined Kondo insulator and antiferromagnetic insulating state, there can exist a wide coexistence region with both Kondo screening and antiferromagnetic orders in the intermediate coupling regime. In addition, the stability of Kondo insulator requires a minimum strength of the Kondo coupling. These features are attributed to the linear density of state, which are absent in the square lattice. Furthermore, fluctuation effect beyond the mean-field decoupling is analyzed and the corresponding antiferromagnetic spin-density-wave transition falls into the O(3) universal class. Comparatively, we also discuss the Kondo necklace and the Kane-Mele-Kondo (KMK) lattice models on the same lattice. Interestingly, it is found that the topological insulating state is unstable to the usual antiferromagnetic ordered states at half-filling for the KMK model. The present work may be helpful for further study on the interplay between conduction electrons and the densely localized spins on the honeycomb lattice.     

Dispersionless envelope lattice solitons on a D-dimensional nonlinear lattice

We show by using the real exponential approach that the d-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation has more general dispersionless envelope lattice soliton solutions than the known bright soliton and kink solutions. Depending on the values of the parameters, the new solutions can describe both bright and dark lattice solitons. Especially, we find novel “W”-like envelope lattice solitons.     

On the correlation between flux line lattice and crystal lattice

For pure type-II superconductors with κ slightly above 1/√2 it is shown that the preferential orientations of the flux-line lattice relative to the crystal lattice are related to the anisotropy of the coherence length.     

From the Toda lattice to the Volterra lattice and back

We discuss the relationship between the multiple Hamiltonian structures of the generalized Toda lattices and that of the generalized Volterra lattices.     

The bond bending model on triangular lattice and square lattice

The bond bending model is studied using the series expansion method on a triangular lattice and on a square lattice. The elastic splay susceptibility χ_SR and the elastic compressional susceptibility χ_el are calculated up to 11th order for the triangular lattice and up to 14th order for the square lattice. The elastic splay crossover exponent, ζ_SP, is found to be ζ_SP ≈ 1.26 ± 0.05 for the triangular lattice and ζ_SP = 1.30 ± 0.04 for the square lattice which is close to the conductivity exponent, ζ_Re, of the resistor network. From the scaling relation ? _B = dv + ζ_SP, we found that the bulk modulus exponent ? _B = 3.93 ± 0.05 for the triangular lattice and ? _B = 3.97 ± 0.04 for the square lattice which is in good agreement with the result ? _B = 3.96 ± 0.04, obtained by Zabolitzky et al. using a transfer matrix technique on a honeycomb lattice.     

Optical lattice clocks

Optical lattice clocks, which were first imagined in 2000, should allow to achieve unprecedented performances in the domain of atomic clocks. We first discuss here the principle of operation of these clocks, in particular trapping atoms in the Lamb-Dicke regime and the notion of magic wavelength. We then describe the operation of an actual lattice clock using Sr atoms and developed at LNE-SYRTE. Its present accuracy is 2.6 ⋅ 10^-15.     

Disordered lattice solitons

We study the properties of a nonlinear Schr?dinger equation in the presence of a disordered potential modeling a waveguide array. We find that, for both signs of the nonlinearity, there is a large number of soliton families each one possessing different quantitative properties. However, all these families can be categorized to only a few classes with the same qualitative properties. Highly confined solitons exist in each waveguide of the lattice. In addition, solitons families originate from each Anderson mode. Resonant interactions between a soliton and an Anderson mode can take place, leading to broadening of the soliton profile.     

Supersymmetric lattice theories

We attempt to construct supersymmetric lattice theories using the staggered lattice fermions of Kogut and Susskind. Although we are able to construct lattice field theories with many of the properties of standard supersymmetric models, all of our interacting models violate Lorentz invariance in the continuum limit.     

Multicolor lattice solitons

We report on the existence of multicolor solitons supported by periodic lattices made from quadratic nonlinear media. Such lattice solitons bridge the gap between continuous solitons in uniform media and discrete solitons in strongly localized systems and exhibit a wealth of new features. We discovered that, in contrast to uniform media, multipeaked lattice solitons are stable. Thus they open new opportunities for all-optical switching based on soliton packets.     

Hard-square lattice gas

We have studied the hard-square lattice gas, using corner transfer matrices. In particular, we have obtained the first 24 terms of the high-density series for the order parameter ₂– ₁. From these we estimate the critical activity to be 3.7962±0.0001. This is in excellent agreement with the earlier work of Gaunt and Fisher. It conflicts with the value 4.0 given by Müller-Hartmann and Zittartz's formula for the critical point of the antiferromagnetic Ising model in a field, so we conclude that this formula, while a good approximation, is not exact.     

Surface lattice solitons

We study theoretically nonlinear surface waves in optical lattices and show that solitons can exist at the heterointerface between two different semi-infinite 1D waveguide arrays, as well as at the boundaries of a 2D nonlinear lattice. The existence and properties of these surface soliton solutions are investigated in detail.     

Low-viscosity lattice gases

A class of lattice gas models are studied which are variants of the FCHC model. The aim is to achieve the highest possible Reynolds coefficient (inverse dimensionless viscosity) for efficient simulations of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The models include an arbitrary number of rest particles and violation of semi-detailed balance. Within the framework of the Boltzmann approximation exact expressions are obtained for the Reynolds coefficients. The minimization of the viscosity is done by solving a Hitchcock-type optimization problem for the fine tuning of the collision rules. When the number of rest particles exceeds one, there is a range of densities at which the viscosity takes negative values. Various optimal models with up to 26 bits per node have been implemented on a CRAY-2 and their true transport coefficients have been measured with good accuracy. Fairly large discrepancies with Boltzmann values are observed when semi-detailed balance is violated; in particular, no negative viscosity is obtained. Still, the best model has a Reynolds coefficient of 13.5, twice that of the best previously implemented model, and thus is about 16 times more efficient computationally. Suggestions are made for further improvements. It is proposed to use models with very high Reynolds coefficients for sub-grid-scale modeling of turbulent flows.     

Physics on lattice

A short review of physical results obtained recently in lattice gluodynamics and lattice QCD is given. The topics are: formation and breaking of the confining string, spectrum of hadrons, QCD at finite temperature, monopoles and vortices in Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories.     

Negative-viscosity lattice gases

A new irreversible collision rule is introduced for lattice-gas automata. The rule maximizes the flux of momentum in the direction of the local momentum gradient, yielding a negative shear viscosity. Numerical results in 2D show that the negative viscosity leads to the spontaneous ordering of the velocity field, with vorticity resolvable down to one lattice-link length. The new rule may be used in conjunction with previously proposed collision rules to yield a positive shear viscosity lower than the previous rules provide. In particular, Poiseuille flow tests demonstrate a decrease in viscosity by more than a factor of 2.     

Diffeomorphism-invariant lattice actions

We present a lattice-discretization procedure which is based on the simplicial lattice preserves diffeomorphism invariance. The presented procedure is the straightforward generalization for the procedure used for discretization of the spinor gravity [7]. As a stable way to guarantee the removing of the lattice regularization, i.e. the continuum limit, for lattice diffeomorphism invariant theories, we propose to tune the system to point of the phase transition. We expect that the Einstein gravitation is achieved at this point.     

Critical behaviour of the hard-core lattice gas on the honeycomb lattice

The hard triangle lattice-gas model (lattice-gas on the honeycomb lattice with first neighbour exclusion) is studied by the phenomenological renormalization method. The critical activity is found to be z = 7.85 and the critical exponents suggest that this model belongs to the 2-D Ising universality class.     

固体物理教学中联接正格子和倒格子空间的傅里叶变换过程浅议

在固体物理学课程中,由于涉及到一些高等数学知识,理解联接正格子和倒格子空间的傅里叶变换过程一直是教学难点之一.本文从晶体结构的周期性特征出发,并结合简易的数学推导,对傅里叶变换过程进行了详细的解读,并且对其中的关键步骤给出了凸显物理内涵的解释.     

On the upper critical dimension of lattice trees and lattice animals

We give a rigorous proof of mean-field critical behavior for the susceptibility (=1/2) and the correlation length (v=1/4) for models of lattice trees and lattice animals in two cases: (i) for the usual model with trees or animals constructed from nearest-neighbor bonds, in sufficiently high dimensions, and (ii) for a class of spread-out or long-range models in which trees and animals are constructed from bonds of various lengths, above eight dimensions. This provides further evidence that for these models the upper critical dimension is equal to eight. The proof involves obtaining an infrared bound and showing that a certain square diagram is finite at the critical point, and uses an expansion related to the lace expansion for the self-avoiding walk.