Topological quantum matter with cold atoms

DW Zhang, YQ Zhu, YX Zhao, H Yan… - Advances in Physics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This is an introductory review of the physics of topological quantum matter with cold atoms.
Topological quantum phases, originally discovered and investigated in condensed matter …

Light-induced gauge fields for ultracold atoms

N Goldman, G Juzeliūnas, P Öhberg… - Reports on Progress in …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Gauge fields are central in our modern understanding of physics at all scales. At the highest
energy scales known, the microscopic universe is governed by particles interacting with …

Unconventional self-similar Hofstadter superconductivity from repulsive interactions

D Shaffer, J Wang, LH Santos - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Fractal Hofstadter bands have become widely accessible with the advent of moiré
superlattices, opening the door to studies of the effect of interactions in these systems. In this …

Theory of Hofstadter superconductors

D Shaffer, J Wang, LH Santos - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We study mean-field states resulting from the pairing of electrons in time-reversal broken
fractal Hofstadter bands, which arise in two-dimensional lattices where the unit cell traps …

Quantum phase transition of ultracold bosons in the presence of a non-Abelian synthetic gauge field

T Graß, K Saha, K Sengupta, M Lewenstein - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2011 - APS
We study the Mott phases and the superfluid-insulator transition of two-component ultracold
bosons on a square optical lattice in the presence of a non-Abelian synthetic gauge field …

Exact solutions of fractional Chern insulators: Interacting particles in the Hofstadter model at finite size

T Scaffidi, SH Simon - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We show that all the bands of the Hofstadter model on the torus have an exactly flat
dispersion and Berry curvature when a special system size is chosen. This result holds for …

Chern numbers for the two-body Hofstadter-Hubbard butterfly

DC Alyuruk, M Iskin - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We analyze the two-body spectrum within the Hofstadter-Hubbard model on a square lattice
through an exact variational ansatz and study the topological properties of its low-lying two …

Interacting Hofstadter spectrum of atoms in an artificial gauge field

S Powell, R Barnett, R Sensarma, S Das Sarma - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Motivated by experimental advances in the synthesis of gauge potentials for ultracold atoms,
we consider the superfluid phase of interacting bosons on a square lattice in the presence of …

Phase diagram of superconductivity in the integer quantum Hall regime

J Schirmer, CX Liu, JK Jain - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
An interplay between pairing and topological orders has been predicted to give rise to
superconducting states supporting exotic emergent particles, such as Majorana particles …

Bogoliubov theory of interacting bosons on a lattice in a synthetic magnetic field

S Powell, R Barnett, R Sensarma, S Das Sarma - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2011 - APS
We consider theoretically the problem of an artificial gauge potential applied to a cold atomic
system of interacting neutral bosons in a tight-binding optical lattice. Using the Bose …