Physics of higher orbital bands in optical lattices: a review

X Li, WV Liu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The orbital degree of freedom plays a fundamental role in understanding the unconventional
properties in solid state materials. Experimental progress in quantum atomic gases has …

Spin dynamics of the generalized quantum spin compass chain

P Laurell, G Alvarez, E Dagotto - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We calculate the dynamical spin structure factor of the generalized spin-1/2 compass spin
chain using the density matrix renormalization group. The model, also known as the twisted …

Quantum phase transitions in a generalized compass chain with three-site interactions

WL You, YC Qiu, AM Oleś - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We consider a class of one-dimensional compass models with an XYZ-YZX type of three-site
exchange interaction in an external magnetic field. We present the exact solution derived by …

Exact treatment of magnetism-driven ferroelectricity in the one-dimensional compass model

WL You, GH Liu, P Horsch, AM Oleś - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We consider a class of one-dimensional compass models with antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-
Moriya exchange interaction in an external magnetic field. Based on the exact solution …

Quantum phase transitions in exactly solvable one-dimensional compass models

WL You, P Horsch, AM Oleś - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We present an exact solution for a class of one-dimensional compass models which stand
for interacting orbital degrees of freedom in a Mott insulator. By employing the Jordan …

Quantum entanglement in the one-dimensional spin-orbital model

WL You, P Horsch, AM Oleś - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We investigate the phase diagram and the spin-orbital entanglement of a one-dimensional
SU (2)⊗ XXZ model with SU (2) spin exchange and anisotropic XXZ orbital exchange …

Entanglement driven phase transitions in spin–orbital models

WL You, AM Oleś, P Horsch - New Journal of Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
To demonstrate the role played by the von Neumann entropy (vNE) spectra in quantum
phase transitions we investigate the one-dimensional anisotropic SU (2) XXZ⊗ spin–orbital …

Magnetic phase diagram and quantum phase transitions in a two-species boson model

AM Belemuk, NM Chtchelkatchev, AV Mikheyenkov… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We analyze the possible types of ordering in a boson-fermion model. The Hamiltonian is
inherently related to the Bose-Hubbard model for vector two-species bosons in optical …

Topological phases of spinless -orbital fermions in zigzag optical lattices

G Sun, WL You, T Zhou - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the experiment [St-Jean, Nat. Photonics 11, 651 (2017) 1749-4885
10.1038/s41566-017-0006-2] on topological phases with collective photon modes in a …

Ferromagnetic spin-orbital liquid of dipolar fermions in zigzag lattices

G Sun, AK Kolezhuk, L Santos, T Vekua - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Two-component dipolar fermions in zigzag optical lattices allow for the engineering of spin-
orbital models. We show that dipolar lattice fermions permit the exploration of a regime …