Evidence for chiral graviton modes in fractional quantum Hall liquids

J Liang, Z Liu, Z Yang, Y Huang, U Wurstbauer… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Exotic physics could emerge from interplay between geometry and correlation. In fractional
quantum Hall (FQH) states, novel collective excitations called chiral graviton modes (CGMs) …

[HTML][HTML] Spin-Peierls instability of the U (1) Dirac spin liquid

UFP Seifert, J Willsher, M Drescher, F Pollmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum fluctuations can inhibit long-range ordering in frustrated magnets and potentially
lead to quantum spin liquid (QSL) phases. A prime example are gapless QSLs with …

Torsional Landau levels and geometric anomalies in condensed matter Weyl systems

S Laurila, J Nissinen - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We consider the role of coordinate-dependent Fermi velocities, equivalent to effective tetrad
(or vierbein) frame fields characterizing momentum space geometry, and torsional Landau …

Probing non-Hermitian phase transitions in curved space via quench dynamics

Y Pará, G Palumbo, T Macrì - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are relevant to describe the features of a broad class of
physical phenomena, ranging from photonics and atomic and molecular systems to nuclear …

Chiral spin-chain interfaces exhibiting event-horizon physics

MD Horner, A Hallam, JK Pachos - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The interface between different quantum phases of matter can give rise to novel physics,
such as exotic topological phases or nonunitary conformal field theories. Here we …

Exploring interacting chiral spin chains in terms of black hole physics

E Forbes, MD Horner, A Hallam, J Barker, JK Pachos - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In this paper we explore the properties of a one-dimensional spin chain in the presence of
chiral interactions, focusing on the system's transition to distinct chiral phases for various …

Continuous transition between Ising magnetic order and a chiral spin liquid

G Shankar, CH Lin, J Maciejko - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The competition between fractionalized spin-liquid states and magnetically ordered phases
is an important paradigm in frustrated magnetism. Spin-orbit coupled Mott insulators with …

Topological phase transitions of semimetal states in effective field theory models

X Ji, YW Sun - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2024 - Springer
Effective relativistic field theory models capable of realizing various gapless topological
states are presented in this work. We study the topological phase transitions of the Weyl and …

Equivalence between vortices, twists, and chiral gauge fields in the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model

MD Horner, A Farjami, JK Pachos - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate that Z 2 gauge transformations and lattice deformations in Kitaev's
honeycomb lattice model can have the same description in the continuum limit in terms of a …

Effective curved space-time geometric theory of generic-twist-angle graphene with application to a rotating bilayer configuration

JZ Ma, T Datta, DX Yao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We propose a new kind of geometric effective theory based on curved space-time single
valley Dirac theory with spin connection for twisted bilayer graphene under generic twist …