Fractional quantum Hall states of atoms in optical lattices

We describe a method to create fractional quantum Hall states of atoms confined in optical lattices. We show that the dynamics of the atoms in the lattice is analogous to the motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field if an oscillating quadrupole potential is applied together with a periodic modulation of the tunneling between lattice sites. In a suitable parameter regime the ground state in the lattice is of the fractional quantum Hall type, and we show how these states can be reached by melting a Mott-insulator state in a superlattice potential. Finally, we discuss techniques to observe these strongly correlated states.     

Stability of the ground state of a harmonic oscillator in a monochromatic wave

The stability of the ground state of a harmonic oscillator in a monochromatic wave is studied. This model describes, in particular, the dynamics of a cold ion in a linear ion trap, interacting with two laser fields with close frequencies. The stability of the "classical ground state"-the vicinity of the point (x=0,p=0)-is analyzed analytically and numerically. For the quantum case, a method for studying a stability of the quantum ground state is developed, based on the quasienergy representation. It is demonstrated that stability of the ground state may be substantially improved by increasing the resonance number, l, where l=Omega/omega+delta, Omega and omega are, respectively, the wave frequency and the oscillator frequency, l=1,2, em leader, mid R:deltamid R:<1; or by detuning the system from exact resonance, so that delta not equal 0. The influence of a large-amplitude wave (in the presence of chaos) on the stability of the ground state is analyzed for different parameters of the model in both the quantum and classical cases. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.     

Magnetic quantum ring in two-dimensional topological insulators

The quantum properties of topological insulator magnetic quantum rings formed by inhomogeneous magnetic fields are investigated using a series expansion method for the modified Dirac equation. Cycloid-like and snake-like magnetic edge states are respectively found in the bulk gap for the normal and inverted magnetic field profiles. The energy spectra, current densities and classical trajectories of the magnetic edge states are discussed in detail. The bulk band inversion is found to manifest itself through the angular momentum transition in the ground state for the cycloid-like states and the resonance tunneling effect for the snake-like states.     

Computational difficulty of computing the density of states

We study the computational difficulty of computing the ground state degeneracy and the density of states for local Hamiltonians. We show that the difficulty of both problems is exactly captured by a class which we call #BQP, which is the counting version of the quantum complexity class quantum Merlin Arthur. We show that #BQP is not harder than its classical counting counterpart #P, which in turn implies that computing the ground state degeneracy or the density of states for classical Hamiltonians is just as hard as it is for quantum Hamiltonians.     

有限深抛物势量子环类氢杂质能级

在有效质量近似下,用微扰法研究InAs量子环内类氢杂质基态及低激发态的能级.受限势采用有限深抛物型势,在二维平面极坐标下,用薛定谔方程的解析解计算.数值结果显示:在抛物势平台区,类氢杂质能级不随电子径向坐标改变,并具有二维氢原子能级的特征;在有限深抛物势区,电子能级敏感地依赖于量子环半径,能级存在极小值,这是由于限制势采用抛物势的结果.如果减小环的半径,可以增加能级间距;简并能级发生分裂并且间距随半径增大而增大,第一激发态的简并没有消除,第二激发态的简并被部分地消除.本文结果对研究量子环的光跃迁及光谱结构有指导意义.     

石墨烯量子点的磁性及激发态性质

利用密度泛函理论在B3LYP/6-31G(d)基组水平上研究了具有zigzag边界的石墨烯量子点,结果表明不同大小的石墨烯量子点的基态都是具有磁性的自旋三重态.其磁性一方面来源于zigzag边界上占有凸出位置的碳原子,另一方面来源于带有孤对电子的碳原子.从整体上看,除6b结构外,其他结构的能隙随着苯环数量的增加逐渐减小,而附加电荷却使体系能隙明显减小.用含时密度泛函理论(TD-DFT)对能隙为3.83 eV的由六个苯环排列成的三角形结构进行了激发态的计算,发现第十七激发态强度最大,能量为3.93 eV,对 关键词： 石墨烯量子点 磁性 能隙 激发态     

Optical pumping of the electronic and nuclear spin of single charge-tunable quantum dots

We present a comprehensive examination of optical pumping of spins in individual GaAs quantum dots as we change the net charge from positive to neutral to negative with a charge-tunable heterostructure. Negative photoluminescence polarization memory is enhanced by optical pumping of ground state electron spins, which we prove with the first measurements of the Hanle effect on an individual quantum dot. We use the Overhauser effect in a high longitudinal magnetic field to demonstrate efficient optical pumping of nuclear spins for all three charge states of the quantum dot.     

Half-polarized quantum hall states

We report a theoretical analysis of the half-polarized quantum Hall states observed in a recent experiment. Our numerical results indicate that the ground state energy of the quantum Hall nu = 2 / 3 and nu = 2 / 5 states versus spin polarization has a downward cusp at half the maximal spin polarization. We map the two-component fermion system onto a system of excitons and describe the ground state as a liquid state of excitons with nonzero values of exciton angular momentum.     

Study on the Quantum FK Model

In this paper, we present a variational method which is suitable for investigating the quantum fienkel-Kontorova model. For the cases of using the coherent state and the squeezed state as the trial wave functions of the ground states, the quantum Hamiltonians and the quantum maps are given. For the second case, we present the phase diagram and devil's stairs using the effective potential method, determine the critical points K_c for different l using Greene's criterion. The results given in the present paper are qualitatively consistent with those of the numerical experiments.^[6]     

库仑场对抛物量子点中强耦合极化子性质的影响

采用线性组合算符和幺正变换方法研究了在库仑场束缚下抛物量子点中强耦合束缚极化子的振动频率和基态能量。并对其进行了数值计算,结果表明:强耦合束缚极化子的振动频率和基态能量随量子点的有效受限长度的增加而减小,随电子-LO声子耦合强度的增加而增加,束缚极化子的基态能量随库仑势的增加而减小。     

Benzoic acid and phenol derivatives of nitronyl nitroxide biradical as building blocks of organic molecule-based ferrimagnets

A crystal-engineering approach to organic ferrimagnets is reported. Coulombic energy between an anionic biradical withS = 1 and a cationic monoradical withS = 1/2 can be utilized as a driving force of cocrystallization of open-shell molecules with different spin quantum numbers, leading to organic salt ferrimagnets. In this study, 3,5-substituted phenol and benzoic acid derivatives of nitronyl nitroxide biradicals were synthesized as an ionizableS = 1 component of organic salt ferrimagnets. The molecular ground states of the biradicals in the neutral state were examined by continuous wave electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy and static paramagnetic susceptibility measurements in the solid state. The molecular ground state of the phenol derivative was found to be triplet (S = 1) with the singlet-triplet energy gap of ΔE/k_B ≈ 25 K, indicating that the biradical can be a building block of organic salt ferrimagnetics. The benzoic acid derivative was found to have a singlet (S = 0) ground state (ΔE/k_B ≧ −5 K), exemplifying thatmeta-(3,5)-linkage of unpaired electrons in π-aromatic rings does not necessarily give a triplet ground state for heteroatomic-substituted π conjugation. The molecular ground states of the biradicals determined in the ESR experiments were confirmed by the susceptibility in the solid state.     

Haldane-like antiferromagnetic spin chain in the large anisotropy limit

We consider the one dimensional, periodic spin chain with N sites, similar to the one studied by Haldane [1], however in the opposite limit of very large anisotropy and small nearest neighbour, anti-ferromagnetic exchange coupling between the spins, which are of large magnitude s. For a chain with an even number of sites we show that actually the ground state is non-degenerate and given by a superposition of the two Neél states, due to quantum spin tunnelling. With an odd number of sites, the Neél state must necessarily contain a soliton. The position of the soliton is arbitrary thus the ground state is N-fold degenerate. This set of states reorganizes into a band. We show that this occurs at order 2s in perturbation theory. The ground state is non-degenerate for integer spin, but degenerate for half-odd integer spin as is required by Kramers' theorem [18].     

Unconventional state with two coexisting long-range orders for frustrated Heisenberg model at quantum phase transition

For the frustrated two-dimensional S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model close to quantum phase transition we consider the singlet ground states retaining both translational and SU(2) symmetry. Besides usually discussed checkerboard, spin-liquid and stripe states an unconventional state with two coexisting long-range orders appears to be possible at sufficiently large damping of spin excitations. The problem is treated in the frames of self-consistent spherically symmetric approach.     

抛物量子点中强耦合束缚磁极化子的性质

采用Pekar类型的变分方法研究了抛物量子点中强耦合束缚磁极化子的基态和激发态的性质.计算了束缚磁极化子的基态和激发态的能量、光学声子平均数以及束缚磁极化子的共振频率.讨论了这些量对回旋频率和有效束缚强度以及库仑束缚势的依赖关系.数值计算结果表明:量子点中强耦合束缚磁极化子的基态能量和共振频率以及光学声子平均数均随量子点的有效束缚强度的增加而减小,基态能量随库仑束缚势的增加而减小,随回旋频率的增加而增大.     

Quantum ice: a quantum Monte Carlo study

Ice states, in which frustrated interactions lead to a macroscopic ground-state degeneracy, occur in water ice, in problems of frustrated charge order on the pyrochlore lattice, and in the family of rare-earth magnets collectively known as spin ice. Of particular interest at the moment are "quantum spin-ice" materials, where large quantum fluctuations may permit tunnelling between a macroscopic number of different classical ground states. Here we use zero-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations to show how such tunnelling can lift the degeneracy of a spin or charge ice, stabilizing a unique "quantum-ice" ground state-a quantum liquid with excitations described by the Maxwell action of (3+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics. We further identify a competing ordered squiggle state, and show how both squiggle and quantum-ice states might be distinguished in neutron scattering experiments on a spin-ice material.     

Eccentricity effects on the quantum confinement in double quantum rings

This work presents a theoretical study of the energy spectrum of GaAs/AlGaAs concentric double quantum rings, under an applied magnetic field directed perpendicular to the ring plane. The Schrödinger equation for this system is solved in a realistic model consisting of rings with finite barrier potentials. Numerical results show that increasing the magnetic field intensity leads to oscillations in the ground state energy which, in contrast to the usual Aharonov-Bohm oscillations, do not have a well defined period, due to the coupling between inner and outer ring states. However, when one considers an elliptical geometry for the rings, the energy spectra of the inner and outer ring states are decoupled and the periodicity of the oscillations is recovered.     

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.     

Quantum rings in tilted magnetic fields

The electronic states of semiconductor quantum rings (QRs) under tilted magnetic fields are studied in the framework of the effective mass and envelope function approximations. For an axial field, the orbital Zeeman contribution prevails leading to the well-known Aharanov–Bohm spectrum, but it slowly decreases as the magnetic field direction declines. For an in-plane field, only the diamagnetic shift survives and it leads to the formation of double quantum well solutions, this result being relevant for experimental techniques which use in-plane magnetic fields to determine the spin of QR ground states. We also investigate the magnetic response of partially overlapped QRs, which are characteristic of high-density samples of self-assembled rings, and find that the spectrum is quite sensitive to ring coupling.     

Fractional quantum Hall States of Dirac electrons in graphene

We have investigated the fractional quantum Hall states of Dirac electrons in a graphene layer in different Landau levels. The relativistic nature of the energy dispersion relation of electrons in graphene significantly modifies the interelectron interactions. This results in a specific dependence of the ground state energy and the energy gaps for electrons on the Landau-level index. For the valley-polarized states, i.e., at nu=1/m, m being an odd integer, the energy gaps have the largest values in the n=1 Landau level. For the valley-unpolarized states, e.g., for the 2/3 state, the energy gaps are suppressed for n=1 as compared to those at n=0. For both n=1 and n=0, the ground state of the 2/3 system is fully valley-unpolarized.