Jaynes-Cummings晶格模型和Rabi晶格模型的量子相变

采用平均场近似的方法,分别研究了Jaynes-Cummings晶格模型和Rabi晶格模型的量子相变:Mott绝缘体相-超流体相量子相变,探索了光的聚束-反聚束行为,研究了Kerr非线性作用对量子相变与光子统计特征的影响.研究结果表明,在Rabi晶格模型中二能级原子和光子相互作用强度g和格点之间光子跃迁强度J的增大会使晶格体系从Mott绝缘体相向超流体相转变,同时,光子统计行为由聚束转变为反聚束,而Kerr非线性强度的增大抑制了Mott绝缘体相-超流体相相变,但促进了光子聚束与反聚束之间的转变.     

超流~3He涡旋线中的新发现

超导体中磁通线及超流He中涡旋线的存在,早已为人们所熟知.它们的结构是简单的,都是在直径约为相干长度的正常态的芯子外面环以超流,具有轴对称性.磁通线的磁通量和涡旋线的环量都是量子化的,分别为一个磁通量子和环量量子,这是在超导体及超流4He中特有的宏观量子现象.1972年发现的液体3He的超流相,虽然是一种新型的超流相,但由于它的宏观量子性,人们自然地认为会有涡旋线存在,这已为后来的实验所证实. 近两年利用赫尔辛基低温实验室中能达到mK温度的旋转恒温器,芬兰和苏联的科学家发现了两个完全出乎人们意料的结果.这是在旋转的超流液体…     

洪德耦合的调控与轨道选择Mott相变

洪德耦合相互作用是导致多轨道体系发生轨道选择Mott相变的重要因素之一. 通过调控洪德耦合相互作用来研究其不同组成部分对轨道选择Mott相变的作用. 利用基于Lanczos 求解器的动力学平均场理论, 对比了双轨道的J模型和Jz模型的金属-绝缘体相变, 并重点讨论洪德耦合中的自旋翻转项和电子对跃迁项以及轨道宽度比值W₂/W₁如何影响轨道选择Mott 相变. 在J模型的相图中, Mott选择相占有较大的区域, 而Jz模型的轨道选择Mott 相只存在于一个很狭窄的区域内, 这说明自旋翻转项及电子对跳跃项是有利于轨道选择Mott相变发生的关键因素. 此外当轨道宽度之比大于W₂/W₁=0.7时, Jz 模型的轨道选择Mott 相会完全消失, 而J模型中只要轨道宽度不同都存在轨道选择Mott相. 因而, 简化后的Jz 模型只是在特定条件下才适合于研究轨道选择Mott相变.     

超流氦浴中的热波传热研究

热波传热机制是超流氦传热非常重要的一个方面.在小热流密度的情况下,超流氦中的热波完全保持加热热流的波形,热量的传输完全靠热波来完成;随着热流密度的增加到一定程度,会在超流氦浴中激发量子涡旋.量子涡旋使热波发展成为热激波.在开放氦浴中,热波的波形不同于狭窄通道里的热波,在热波的尾部会出现一个冷却波;并且随着加热时间的变化,冷却波的形状和幅度会发生很大的变化.运用二流体模型和涡旋方程对超流氦中的热波进行了计算,实验结果与计算结果吻合得较好. 关键词： 超流氦 热波 量子涡旋 热激波     

交错Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用对反铁磁Heisenberg链纠缠的影响

主要研究了具有交错Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya(DM)相互作用的反铁磁Heisenberg链的纠缠.基于 density-matrix renormalization group(DMRG)的数值计算表明,交错DM相互作用消除了系统在外磁场H=2处的二级量子相变,从而量子纠缠反常行为也随之消失;同时纠缠范围的发散也被消除,意味着该模型因子化点的消失.交错DM相互作用导致系统在任意强场下也不会达到铁磁饱和状态,从而保持着自旋纠缠.交错DM相互作用有利于通过外场调控纠缠程度和纠缠范 关键词： Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用 量子纠缠 量子相变 纠缠范围     

双轨道Hubbard模型的动力学平均场理论研究

基于以Lanczos方法为杂质求解器的动力学平均场理论,研究了非局域轨道间跃迁对于双轨道强关联体系中轨道选择Mott相变的影响.计算了轨道间跃迁系数不同的双轨道Hubbard模型的准粒子权重和态密度,并构建了它们在相互作用强度U和轨道带宽比t₂/t₁影响下的相图.通过正则变换引入两个有效的退耦和轨道,在一定条件下轨道间跃迁会有利于轨道选择Mott相变的发生.还比较了Bethe晶格和正方晶格的相图,虽然基于两种不同晶格能带结构得到的轨道选择Mott相变的相变点存在一定的差异,但其中关于轨道选择Mott相变的基本物理图像具有一致性.并将方法拓展到半满的Ba₂CuO_4–δ材料的研究中,与根据密度泛函理论得到的能带对比,我们发现各向同性的轨道间跃迁对能带结构影响较大,进一步采用动量空间各向异性的非局域轨道间跃迁项,得到了材料的相图,在半满条件下Ba₂CuO_4–δ应为轨道选择Mott材料.     

费米气体在调制缺陷晶格中的超流特性

本文研究了费米气体在调制缺陷的一维环形光晶格中的超流特性．在流体动力学模型和两模近似下,整个系统的动力学性质可以等效为单摆模型的哈密顿量,从而得到系统发生超流相变的临界条件ρc ．系统在BEC-BCS整个渡越区中,临界原子数密度将使得系统存在缺陷导致阻尼的正常态之外的另一种状态,即平面波连续穿过缺陷的超流态．系统的超流特性依赖于缺陷的强度、类型以及原子间的相互作用,并且由于缺陷与原子间相互作用的耦合,系统在BCS端更容易维持超流态。     

超冷~(87)Rb原子在二维光晶格中Mott绝缘态的实验实现

超冷原子气体的量子相变是研究量子关联多体物理的核心内容之一.本文采用单一激光光束通过折叠反射产生二维光晶格,通过控制激光偏振产生两种不同的二维光晶格结构,一种是两个独立的一维光晶格构成,另一种是两个方向的一维光晶格互相干涉形成.将超冷~(87)Rb原子装载到二维光晶格中,通过改变光晶格激光功率调控原子在光晶格中的隧穿强度和相互作用强度,观察到~(87)Rb原子从超流态到Mott绝缘态之间的量子相变,并且分析了两种光晶格对量子相变的影响,为今后开展光晶格中强关联物理研究奠定基础.     

量子相变和量子临界现象

本文综述凝聚态物理学中的量子相变和量子临界现象,首先考察了相变中存在量子效应的可能性,通过横磁场Ising模型介绍了量子相变的基本特征;接下来对照热临界现象,引入了量子标度和量子重正化的基本概念和操作方式;然后利用量子临界现象的方案,分析了密度驱动、无序驱动和关联驱动的金属-绝缘体相变;继续利用量子临界性的概念探讨如重电子化合物、铜氧化物和巡游铁磁体这类复杂的相互作用多粒子系统;最后选择量子点、碳纳米管和单层石墨为例,介绍了量子临界性在低维和纳米系统研究中的作用.     

含有Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用的自旋1键交替海森伯模型的量子相变和拓扑序标度

利用张量网络表示的无限矩阵乘积态算法研究了含有Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM)相互作用的键交替海森伯模型的量子相变和临界标度行为.基于矩阵乘积态的基态波函数计算了系统的量子纠缠熵及非局域拓扑序.数据表明,随着键交替强度变化,系统从拓扑有序的Haldane相转变为局域有序的二聚化相.同时DM相互作用抑制了系统的二聚化,并最终打破系统的完全二聚化.另外,通过对相变点附近二聚化序的一阶导数和长程弦序的数值拟合,分别得到了此模型相变的特征临界指数a和b的值.结果表明,随着DM相互作用强度的增强, a逐渐减小,同时b逐渐增大. DM相互作用强度影响着此模型的临界行为.针对此模型的临界性质的研究,揭示了量子自旋相互作用的彼此竞争机制,对今后研究含有DM相互作用的自旋多体系统中拓扑量子相变临界行为提供一定的借鉴与参考.     

Staggered flux phase in a model of strongly correlated electrons

We present numerical evidence for the existence of a staggered flux (SF) phase in the half-filled two-leg t-U-V-J ladder, with true long-range order in the countercirculating currents. The density-matrix renormalization-group finite-size scaling approach, generalized to describe complex-valued Hamil-tonians and wave functions, is employed. The SF phase exhibits robust currents at intermediate values of the interaction strength.     

Dynamics and phase transitions in biased ladder systems with magnetic flux

The ground states and the dynamics of a biased two-leg flux ladder in the presence of a gravitational field are discussed. In the absence of the gravitational field, the ground states and the critical condition of phase transition are obtained analytically. We identify the Meissner phase, Vortex phase, and interestingly, two new Plane Wave phases, that break both $Z_2$ and time-reversal symmetry, characterized by the imbalance particle density distribution, asymmetry double well energy band structure in Plane Wave I (PWI) phase and asymmetry single well energy band structure in Plane Wave II (PWII) phase, respectively. In the presence of a longitudinal dc gravitational field, rich chiral Bloch oscillation and Landau-Zener tunneling are predicted theoretically and confirmed numerically. The characteristics of the chiral Bloch oscillation can distinguish the novel phases intuitively. Our work gives an interesting way to discuss the quantum phase transitions in a dynamical way.     

Orbital currents and charge density waves in a generalized Hubbard ladder

We study a generalized Hubbard model on the two-leg ladder at zero temperature, focusing on a parameter region with staggered flux (SF)/d-density wave (DDW) order. To guide our numerical calculations, we first investigate the location of a SF/DDW phase in the phase diagram of the half-filled weakly interacting ladder using a perturbative renormalization group (RG) and bosonization approach. For hole doping δ away from half-filling, finite-system density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) calculations are used to study ladders with up to 200 rungs for intermediate-strength interactions. In the doped SF/DDW phase, the staggered rung current and the rung electron density both show periodic spatial oscillations, with characteristic wavelengths 2/δ and 1/δ, respectively, corresponding to ordering wavevectors 2k_F and 4k_F for the currents and densities, where 2k_F = π (1 − δ). The density minima are located at the anti-phase domain walls of the staggered current. For sufficiently large dopings, SF/DDW order is suppressed. The rung density modulation also exists in neighboring phases where currents decay exponentially. We show that most of the DMRG results can be qualitatively understood from weak-coupling RG/bosonization arguments. However, while these arguments seem to suggest a crossover from non-decaying correlations to power-law decay at a length scale of order 1/δ, the DMRG results are consistent with a true long-range order scenario for the currents and densities.     

Exact duality relations in correlated electron systems

Using gauge transformations on electron bond operators, we derive exact duality relations between various order parameters for correlated electron systems. Applying these transformations, we find two duality relations in the generalized two-leg Hubbard ladder at arbitrary filling. The relations show that unconventional density-wave orders such as staggered flux or circulating spin current are dual to conventional density-wave orders and there are direct mappings between dual phases. Several exact results on the phase diagram are also concluded.     

Numerical simulation evidence of dynamical transverse meissner effect and moving bose glass phase

We present 3D numerical simulation results of moving vortex lattices in the presence of 1D correlated disorder at zero temperature. Our results with field tilting confirm the theoretical predictions of a moving Bose glass phase, characterized by transverse pinning and dynamical transverse Meissner effect, the moving flux lines being localized along the correlated disorder direction. Beyond a critical transverse field, vortex lines exhibit along all their length a "kink" structure resulting from an effective static "tin roof" pinning potential in the transverse direction.     

Staggered local density of states around the vortex in underdoped cuprates

We have studied a single vortex with the staggered flux (SF) core based on the SU(2) slave-boson theory of high T(c) superconductors. We find that, whereas the center in the vortex core is a SF state, as one moves away from the core center a correlated staggered modulation of the hopping amplitude chi and pairing amplitude Delta becomes predominant. We predict that in this region the local density of states exhibits staggered modulation when measured on the bonds, which may be directly detected by STM experiments.     

Quantum corrections of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ AF-Heisenberg chain in an uniform magnetic field

We have investigated the ground state phase diagram of the 1D AF spin- Heisenberg model with the staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction in an external uniform magnetic field H. We have used the exact diagonalization technique. In the absence of the uniform magnetic field (H=0), we have shown that the DM interaction induces a staggered chiral phase. The staggered chiral phase remains stable even in the presence of the uniform magnetic field. We have identified that the ground state phase diagram consists of four Luttinger liquid, staggered chiral, spin-flop, and ferromagnetic phases.     

Phase diagram in ferromagnetic superconductors

In ferromagnetic superconductors, the spin-spiral phase and the self-induced vortex phase have been predicted to be caused by the interplay between the persistent current and the magnetic moments. Along with these two phases, the Meissner phase, the ferromagnetic normal phase, and the paramagnetic normal phase are also expected to appear in the system. From the calculation of the free energies, the phase-diagrams for these phases are obtained in the planes of temperature-the Landau parameter, -magnetization, and -the concentration of magnetic ions.     

Ground-state phase diagram of the dimerizedspin-1/2 two-leg ladder

Dimerized spin-1/2 ladders exhibit a variety of phase structures, which depend on the intra-chain and inter-chain spin exchange energies as well as on the dimerization pattern of the ladder. Using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm, we study critical properties of the bond-alternating two-leg Heisenberg spin ladder with diagonal interaction J_×. Two types of spin systems, staggered dimerized antiferromagnetic ladder and columnar dimerized ferro-antiferromagnetic couplings ladder, are investigated. To clarify the phase transition behaviors, we simultaneously analyze the string order parameter (SOP), the twisted order parameter (TOP), as well as a measurement of the quantum information analysis. Based on measuring this different observables, we establish the phase diagram accurately and give the fitting functions of the phase boundaries. In addition, the phase transition of cross-coupled spin ladder (in the absence of intrinsic dimerization) is also discussed.     

Analytic solutions to Maxwell–London equations and levitation force for a general magnetic source in the presence of a long type-II superconducting cylinder

The interaction between a general magnetic source and a long type-II superconducting cylinder in the Meissner or mixed state is studied within the London theory. We first study the Meissner state and solve the Maxwell–London equations when the source is a magnetic monopole located at an arbitrary position. Then the field and supercurrent for a more complicated magnetic charge distribution can be obtained by superposition. A magnetic point dipole with arbitrary direction is studied in detail. It turns out that the levitation force on the dipole contains in general an angular as well as a radial component. By integration we obtain the field and supercurrent when the source is a two-dimensional monopole (a magnetically charged long thread along the axial direction), from which the results for a two-dimensional point dipole easily follow. In the latter case the levitation force points in the radial direction regardless of the orientation of the dipole. The case for a current carrying long straight wire parallel to the cylindrical axis is solved separately. The limit of ideal Meissner state is discussed in most cases. The case of mixed state is discussed briefly. It turns out that vortex lines along the axial direction and vortex rings concentric with the cylinder have no effect outside the cylinder and the levitation forces remain the same as in the case of the Meissner state.