Spontaneous spin accumulation in singlet-triplet josephson junctions

We study the Andreev bound states in a Josephson junction between a singlet and a triplet superconductors. Because of the mismatch in the spin symmetries of pairing, the energies of the spin-up and -down quasiparticles are generally different. This results in imbalance of spin populations and net spin accumulation at the junction in equilibrium. This effect can be detected using probes of local magnetic field, such as the scanning SQUID, Hall, and Kerr probes. It may help to identify potential triplet pairing in (TMTSF)2X, Sr2RuO4, and oxypnictides.     

Quantum Lattice Models at Intermediate Temperature

We analyze the free energy and construct the Gibbs-KMS states for a class of quantum lattice systems, at low temperature and when the interactions are almost diagonal, in a suitable basis. The models we study may have continuous symmetries, our results, however, apply to intermediate temperatures where discrete symmetries are broken but continuous symmetries are not. Our results are based on quantum Pirogov–Sinai theory and a combination of high and low temperature expansions. Received: 6 December 2000 / Accepted: 18 July 2001     

Bilayer coherent and quantum Hall phases: duality and quantum disorder

We consider a fully spin-polarized quantum Hall system with no interlayer tunneling at total filling factor nu = 1/k (where k is an odd integer) using the Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau theory. Exploiting particle-vortex duality and the concept of quantum disordering, we find a large number of possible compressible and incompressible ground states, some of which may have relevance to recent experiments of Spielman et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5808 (2000)]. We find interlayer coherent compressible states without Hall quantization and interlayer incoherent incompressible states with Hall quantization in addition to the usual (k,k,k) Halperin states, which are both interlayer coherent and incompressible.     

Massive inter-particle symmetry and Ward identity in fermionic string theory

We show that there exist enlarged stringy (α′→∞) symmetries for (evenG-parity) massive modes in the 10D fermionic string theory. These symmetries are derived from on-shell Ward identities corresponding to the decoupling of massive gauge states in the spectrum. In the generalized massive supersymmetric σ-model formalism, some symmetry transformations relate particles with different spins in the first order weak field approximation.     

Scattering mechanism of integer quantum Hall conductance in a model system

We consider a large class of two-dimensional systems of charged particles in crossed electric and strong magnetic fields in the presence of a static substrate potentialV(x,y), which contains disorder. The time dependence of the single-particle Schroedinger functions are investigated. It is found on general grounds, that adiabatic states are dc-insulating and, that the macroscopic Hall current is carried by the non-adiabatic states. Hall conductance plateaus correspond to spectral domains, which contain only adiabatic states. The plateaus disappear, when these states become non-adiabatic at sufficiently high electric fields, i.e., at sufficiently large Hall currents. An explicit model system is investigated with a substrate potential composed of disorder and of a sequence of smooth barriers and wells. Here the non-adiabatic states can be calculated in a weak-disorder approximation, whenever the electric field (and hence the Hall current) is sufficiently low. In this case the quantum mechanical scattering process leading, to the quantisation of the Hall conductance can be understood in detail. Non-classical particle propagation plays a crucial role in this process. Our analysis opens new perspectives for the theory of the integer quantum Hall effect.     

Fast Car Physics,by Chuck Edmondson

An introduction to the theory of modular symmetries in two-dimensional materials, and its application to ‘relativistic’ group IV materials like graphene, silicene, germanene and stanene, is given. Universal properties of the magneto-electric Hall effect are extracted by projecting experimental transport data directly onto the phase diagram. When families of data depending on the dominant scale parameter (usually temperature) are available, we can extract flow lines that chart the geometry of the phase diagram, including the location of quantum critical points and phase boundaries connecting these. The universal data are used to identify emergent modular symmetries, which are infinite discrete groups of fractional linear (Möbius) transformations. Such symmetries are extremely rigid, and therefore spawn a host of sharp predictions that are easy to falsify, but so far they have failed to fail. The unique topology of the Fermi surface in the graphene family gives a robust gapless mode with linear dispersion (relativistic Dirac cones) that shifts the spectrum of Landau levels that appear when the material is placed in a strong magnetic field. The modular analysis can be extended to this case, and where reliable data are available, there appears to be agreement. A convincing case for the ‘relativistic’ quantum Hall group is hampered by the paucity of fractional quantum Hall data, the absence of scaling data and the crossover between different scaling regimes. This is likely to change in the near future, as scaling data for graphene are just now becoming available.     

Symmetries of some classes of dynamical systems

In this paper a three-dimensional system with five parameters is considered. For some particular values of these parameters, one finds known dynamical systems. The purpose of this work is to study some symmetries of the considered system, such as Lie-point symmetries, conformal symmetries, master symmetries and variational symmetries. In order to present these symmetries we give constants of motion. Using Lie group theory, Hamiltonian and bi-Hamiltonian structures are given. Also, symplectic realizations of Hamiltonian structures are presented. We have generalized some known results and we have established other new results. Our unitary presentation allows the study of these classes of dynamical systems from other points of view, e.g. stability problems, existence of periodic orbits, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits.     

First principles calculation of anomalous Hall conductivity in ferromagnetic bcc Fe

We perform a first principles calculation of the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic bcc Fe. Our theory identifies an intrinsic contribution to the anomalous Hall conductivity and relates it to the k-space Berry phase of occupied Bloch states. This dc conductivity has the same origin as the well-known magneto-optical effect, and our result accounts for experimental measurement on Fe crystals with no adjustable parameters.     

A symmetry principle for topological quantum order

We present a unifying framework to study physical systems which exhibit topological quantum order (TQO). The major guiding principle behind our approach is that of symmetries and entanglement. These symmetries may be actual symmetries of the Hamiltonian characterizing the system, or emergent symmetries. To this end, we introduce the concept of low-dimensional Gauge-like symmetries (GLSs), and the physical conservation laws (including topological terms, fractionalization, and the absence of quasi-particle excitations) which emerge from them. We prove then sufficient conditions for TQO at both zero and finite temperatures. The physical engine for TQO are topological defects associated with the restoration of GLSs. These defects propagate freely through the system and enforce TQO. Our results are strongest for gapped systems with continuous GLSs. At zero temperature, selection rules associated with the GLSs enable us to systematically construct general states with TQO; these selection rules do not rely on the existence of a finite gap between the ground states to all other excited states. Indices associated with these symmetries correspond to different topological sectors. All currently known examples of TQO display GLSs. Other systems exhibiting such symmetries include Hamiltonians depicting orbital-dependent spin-exchange and Jahn-Teller effects in transition metal orbital compounds, short-range frustrated Klein spin models, and p+ip superconducting arrays. The symmetry based framework discussed herein allows us to go beyond standard topological field theories and systematically engineer new physical models with finite temperature TQO (both Abelian and non-Abelian). Furthermore, we analyze the insufficiency of entanglement entropy (we introduce SU(N) Klein models on small world networks to make the argument even sharper), spectral structures, maximal string correlators, and fractionalization in establishing TQO. We show that Kitaev’s Toric code model and Wen’s plaquette model are equivalent and reduce, by a duality mapping, to an Ising chain, demonstrating that despite the spectral gap in these systems the toric operator expectation values may vanish once thermal fluctuations are present. This illustrates the fact that the quantum states themselves in a particular (operator language) representation encode TQO and that the duality mappings, being non-local in the original representation, disentangle the order. We present a general algorithm for the construction of long-range string and brane orders in general systems with entangled ground states; this algorithm relies on general ground states selection rules and becomes of the broadest applicability in gapped systems in arbitrary dimensions. We exactly recast some known non-local string correlators in terms of local correlation functions. We discuss relations to problems in graph theory.     

Generalization of the theory of three-dimensional quantum Hall effect of Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetal

The quantum Hall effect (QHE), which is usually observed in two-dimensional systems, was predicted theoretically and observed experimentally in three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetal. However, there are some inconsistencies between the theory and the experiments showing the theory is imperfect. Here, we generalize the theory of the 3D QHE of Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetal. Through calculating the sheet Hall conductivity of a Weyl semimetal slab, we show that the 3D QHE of Fermi arcs can occur in a large energy range and the thickness dependences of the QHE in different Fermi energies are distinct. When the Fermi energy is near the Weyl nodes, the Fermi arcs give rise to the QHE which is independent of the thickness of the slab. When the Fermi energy is not near the Weyl nodes, the two Fermi arcs form a complete Fermi loop with the assistance of bulk states giving rise to the QHE which is dependent on the sample thickness. We also demonstrate how the band anisotropic terms influence the QHE of Fermi arcs. Our theory complements the imperfections of the present theory of 3D QHE of Fermi arcs.     

Wavefunctions for topological quantum registers

We present explicit wavefunctions for quasi-hole excitations over a variety of non-abelian quantum Hall states: the Read-Rezayi states with k ? 3 clustering properties and a paired spin-singlet quantum Hall state. Quasi-holes over these states constitute a topological quantum register, which can be addressed by braiding quasi-holes. We obtain the braid properties by direct inspection of the quasi-hole wavefunctions. We establish that the braid properties for the paired spin-singlet state are those of ‘Fibonacci anyons’, and thus suitable for universal quantum computation. Our derivations in this paper rely on explicit computations in the parafermionic conformal field theories that underly these particular quantum Hall states.     

Exact ground states of rotating Bose gases close to a Feshbach resonance

We study the ground states of rotating Bose gases when interactions are affected by a nearby Feshbach resonance. We show that exact ground states at high angular momentum can be found analytically for a general model for the resonant interactions. We identify parameter regimes where the exact ground states are exotic fractional quantum Hall states, the excitations of which obey nonabelian exchange statistics.     

Gauge invariance,charge conservation,and variational principles

We present new results on the correspondence between symmetries, conservation laws and variational principles for field equations in general non-abelian gauge theories. Our main result states that second order field equations possessing translational and gauge symmetries and the corresponding conservation laws are always derivable from a variational principle. We also show by the way of examples that the above result fails in general for third order field equations.     

Energy gaps for fractional quantum Hall states described by a Chern-Simons composite fermion wavefunction

The Jain's composite fermion wavefunction has proven quite succesful to describe most of the fractional quantum Hall states. Its mathematical foundation lies in the Chern-Simons field theory for the electrons in the lowest Landau level, despite the fact that such wavefunction is different from a typical mean-field level Chern-Simons wavefunction. It is known that the energy excitation gaps for fractional Hall states described by Jain's composite fermion wavefunction cannot be calculated analytically. We note that analytic results for the energy excitation gaps of fractional Hall states described by a fermion Chern-Simons wavefunction are readily obtained by using a technique originating from nuclear matter studies. By adopting this technique to the fractional quantum Hall effect we obtained analytical results for the excitation energy gaps of all fractional Hall states described by a Chern-Simons wavefunction. Received 9 March 2001     

Topological invariants for fractional quantum hall states

We calculate a topological invariant, whose value would coincide with the Chern number in the case of integer quantum Hall effect, for fractional quantum Hall states. In the case of Abelian fractional quantum Hall states, this invariant is shown to be equal to the trace of the K-matrix. In the case of non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states, this invariant can be calculated on a case by case basis from the conformal field theory describing these states. This invariant can be used, for example, to distinguish between different fractional Hall states numerically even though, as a single number, it cannot uniquely label distinct states.     

Is electromagnetic gauge invariance spontaneously violated in superconductors?

We aim to give a pedagogical introduction to those elementary aspects of superconductivity which are not treated in the classic textbooks. In particular, we emphasize that global U (1) phase rotation symmetry, and not gauge symmetry, is spontaneously violated, and show that the BCS wave function is, contrary to claims in the literature, fully gauge invariant. We discuss the nature of the order parameter, the physical origin of the many degenerate states, and the relation between formulations of superconductivity with fixed particle numbers vs. well-defined phases. We motivate and to some extend derive the effective field theory at low temperatures, explore symmetries and conservation laws, and justify the classical nature of the theory. Most importantly, we show that the entire phenomenology of superconductivity essentially follows from the single assumption of a charged order parameter field. This phenomenology includes Anderson’s characteristic equations of superfluidity, electric and magnetic screening, the Bernoulli Hall effect, the balance of the Lorentz force, as well as the quantum effects, in which Planck’s constant manifests itself through the compactness of the U (1) phase field. The latter effects include flux quantization, phase slippage, and the Josephson effect.     

Spin and spin-valley Hall effects in a honeycomb lattice with antiferromagnetism and spin-orbit couplings

We study linear response to a longitudinal electric field on an antiferromagnetic honeycomb lattice with intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOCs). It is found that the spin-valley Hall effect could emerge alone or coexist with the spin Hall effect. The spin and spin-valley Hall conductivities exhibit some peculiarities that depend on the distinct topological states of the graphene lattice. Furthermore, the spin and spin-valley Hall conductivities could be remarkably modulated by changing the Fermi level. Our findings suggest that the antiferromagnetic honeycomb lattice with SOCs is an excellent platform for potential applications of spintronics and valleytronics.     

Spin order in paired quantum Hall states

We consider quantum Hall states at even-denominator filling fractions, especially nu=5/2, in the limit of small Zeeman energy. Assuming that a paired quantum Hall state forms, we study spin ordering and its interplay with pairing. We give numerical evidence that at nu=5/2 an incompressible ground state will exhibit spontaneous ferromagnetism. The Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory for the spin degrees of freedom of paired Hall states is a perturbed CP2 model. We compute the coefficients in the GL theory by a BCS Stoner mean-field theory for coexisting order parameters, and show that even if repulsion is smaller than that required for a Stoner instability, ferromagnetic fluctuations can induce a partially or fully polarized superconducting state.