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Stephan Haas

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arXiv2009

Fidelity approach to the disordered quantum XY model

We study the random XY spin chain in a transverse field by analyzing the susceptibility of the ground state fidelity, numerically evaluated through a standard mapping of the model onto quasi-free fermions. It is found that the fidelity susceptibility and its scaling properties provide useful information about the phase diagram. In particular it is possible to determine the Ising critical line and the Griffiths phase regions, in agreement with previous analytical and numerical results.

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arXiv2009

Electron-phonon bound states and impurity band formation in quantum wells

A generalized propagation matrix method is used to study how scattering off local Einstein phonons affects resonant electron transmission through quantum wells. In particular, the parity and the number of the phonon mediated satellite resonances are found to depend on the available scattering channels. For a large number of phonon channels, the formation of low-energy impurity bands is observed. Furthermore, an effective theory is developed which accurately describes the phonon generated sidebands for sufficiently small electron-phonon coupling. Finally, the current-voltage characteristics caused by phonon assisted transmission satellites are discussed for a specific double barrier geometry.

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arXiv2008

Magnetic and Metallic State at Intermediate Hubbard U Coupling in Multiorbital Models for Undoped Fe Pnictides

Multi-orbital Hubbard model Hamiltonians for the undoped parent compounds of the Fe-pnictide superconductors are here investigated using mean-field techniques. For a realistic four-orbital model, our results show the existence of an intermediate Hubbard U coupling regime where the mean-field ground state has spin stripe magnetic order, as in neutron scattering experiments, while remaining metallic, due to the phenomenon of band overlaps. The angle-resolved photoemission intensity and Fermi surface of this magnetic and metallic state are discussed. Other models are also investigated, including a two orbital model where not only the mean-field technique can be used, but also Exact Diagonalization in small clusters and the Variational Cluster Approximation in the bulk. The combined results of the three techniques point toward the existence of an intermediate-coupling magnetic and metallic state in the two-orbital model, similar to the intermediate coupling mean-field state of the four-orbital model. We conclude that the state discussed here is compatible with the experimentally known properties of the undoped Fe-pnictides.

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arXiv2008

Subarea law of entanglement in nodal fermionic systems

We investigate the subarea law scaling properties of the block entropy in bipartite fermionic systems which do not have a finite Fermi surface. It is found that in gapped regimes the leading subarea term is a negative constant, whereas in critical regimes with point nodes the leading subarea law is a logarithmic additive term. At the phase boundary that separates the critical and non-critical regimes, the subarea scaling shows power-law behavior.

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arXiv2008

Scaling Analysis and Application: Phase Diagram of Magnetic Nanorings and Elliptical Nanoparticles

The magnetic properties of single-domain nanoparticles with different geometric shapes, crystalline anisotropies and lattice structures are investigated. A recently proposed scaling approach is shown to be universal and in agreement with dimensional analysis coupled with an assumption of {\em incomplete} self-similarity. It is used to obtain phase diagrams of magnetic nanoparticles featuring three competing configurations: in-plane and out-of-plane ferromagnetism and vortex formation. The influence of the vortex core on the scaling behavior and phase diagram is analyzed. Three-dimensional phase diagrams are obtained for cylindrical nanorings, depending on their height, outer and inner radius. The triple points in these phase diagrams are shown to be in linear relationship with the inner radius of the ring. Elliptically shaped magnetic nanoparticles are also studied. A new parametrization for double vortex configurations is proposed, and regions in the phase diagram are identified where the double vortex is a stable ground state.

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arXiv2008

Formation of collective excitations in quasi-one dimensional metallic nanostructures: size and density dependance

We investigate theoretically the formation of collective excitations in atomic scale quasi-one dimensional metallic nanostructures. The response of the system is calculated within the linear response theory and random phase approximation. For uniform nanostructures a transition from quantum single particle excitations to classical plasmon scaling is observed, depending on the system length and electron density. We find crucial differences in the scaling behavior for quasi-one dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructures. The presence of an additional modulating on-site potential is shown to localize electrons, leading to the response function that is highly sensitive to the number of electrons at low fillings.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗
arXiv2008

Optimal control of electromagnetic field using metallic nanoclusters

The dielectric properties of metallic nanoclusters in the presence of an applied electromagnetic field are investigated using non-local linear response theory. In the quantum limit we find a non-trivial dependence of the induced field and charge distribution on the spatial separation between the clusters and on the frequency of the driving field. Using a genetic algorithm, these quantum functionalities are exploited to custom-design sub-wavelength lenses with a frequency controlled switching capability.

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arXiv2007

Entanglement Entropy in the Two-Dimensional Random Transverse Field Ising Model

The scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy in the two-dimensional random transverse field Ising model is studied numerically through the strong disordered renormalization group method. We find that the leading term of the entanglement entropy always scales linearly with the block size. However, besides this \emph{area law} contribution, we find a subleading logarithmic correction at the quantum critical point. This correction is discussed from the point of view of an underlying percolation transition, both at finite and at zero temperature.

cond-mat.dis-nn↗
arXiv2007

Quantum glass phases in the disordered Bose-Hubbard model

The phase diagram of the Bose-Hubbard model in the presence of off-diagonal disorder is determined using Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A sequence of quantum glass phases intervene at the interface between the Mott insulating and the Superfluid phases of the clean system. In addition to the standard Bose glass phase, the coexistence of gapless and gapped regions close to the Mott insulating phase leads to a novel Mott glass regime which is incompressible yet gapless. Numerical evidence for the properties of these phases is given in terms of global (compressibility, superfluid stiffness) and local (compressibility, momentum distribution) observables.

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arXiv2006

The disordered-free-moment phase: a low-field disordered state in spin-gap antiferromagnets with site dilution

Site dilution of spin-gapped antiferromagnets leads to localized free moments, which can order antiferromagnetically in two and higher dimensions. Here we show how a weak magnetic field drives this order-by-disorder state into a novel disordered-free-moment phase, characterized by the formation of local singlets between neighboring moments and by localized moments aligned antiparallel to the field. This disordered phase is characterized by the absence of a gap, as it is the case in a Bose glass. The associated field-driven quantum phase transition is consistent with the universality of a superfluid-to-Bose-glass transition. The robustness of the disordered-free-moment phase and its prominent features, in particular a series of pseudo-plateaus in the magnetization curve, makes it accessible and relevant to experiments.

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arXiv2006

Bottom-up approach to high-temperature superconductivity

Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates a theoretical understanding of their phase diagram has remained one of the major outstanding problems in condensed matter physics. Here we propose an effective low-energy Hamiltonian which produces both d-wave density wave (dDW) and d-wave superconducting (dSC) solutions within the BCS mean-field theory. This model predicts that (a) the observed pseudogap phase is a dDW state, (b) the superconducting phase is a d-wave BCS state, and (c) in the underdoped regime there is a gossamer superconducting state, i.e. dSC in coexistence with dDW. Moreover, this theory naturally explains the Uemura relation, the reduction of the quasiparticle density of states at the Fermi level, and the salient features in the tunneling conductivity measured in underdoped Bi2212.

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arXiv2006

Small $T_1^{-1}$ coherence peak near $T_c$ in unconventional superconductors

It is usually believed that a coherence peak just below T$_{c}$ in the nuclear spin lattice relaxation rate T$_{1}^{-1}$ in superconducting materials is a signature of conventional s-wave pairing. In this paper we demonstrate that any unconventional superconductor obeying BCS pure-case weak-coupling theory should show a small T$_{1}^{-1}$ coherence peak near T$_{c}$, generally with a height between 3 and 15 percent greater than the normal state T$_{1}^{-1}$ at T$_{c}$. It is largely due to impurity effects that this peak has not commonly been observed.

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arXiv2006

Electromagnetic response of broken-symmetry nano-scale clusters

A microscopic, non-local response theory is developed to model the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with inhomogeneous nano-scale clusters. The breakdown of classical continuum-field Mie theory is demonstrated at a critical coarse-graining threshold, below which macroscopic plasmon resonances are replaced by molecular excitations with suppressed spectral intensity.

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arXiv2006

Quantum phase transition in spin systems studied through entanglement estimators

Entanglement represents a pure quantum effect involving two or more particles. Spin systems are good candidates for studying this effect and its relation with other collective phenomena ruled by quantum mechanics. While the presence of entangled states can be easily verified, the quantitative estimate of this property is still under investigation. One of the most useful tool in this framework is the concurrence whose definition, albeit limited to $S=1/2$ systems, can be related to the correlators. We consider quantum spin systems defined along chains and square lattices, and described by Heisenberg-like Hamiltonians: our goal is to clarify the relation between entanglement and quantum phase transitions, as well as that between the concurrence the and the specific quantum state of the system.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗
arXiv2006

Mott glass in site-diluted S=1 antiferromagnets with single-ion anisotropy

The interplay between site dilution and quantum fluctuations in S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnets on the square lattice is investigated using quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Quantum fluctuations are tuned by a single-ion anisotropy D. In the clean limit, a sufficiently large D>D_c = 5.65(2) J forces each spin into its m_S=0 state, and thus destabilizes antiferromagnetic order. In the presence of site dilution, quantum fluctuations are found to destroy Néel order before the percolation threshold of the lattice is reached, if D exceeds a critical value D^* = 2.3(2) J. This mechanism opens up an extended quantum-disordered Mott glass phase on the percolated lattice, characterized by a gapless spectrum and vanishing uniform susceptibility.

cond-mat.str-el↗
arXiv2006

Disorder-enhanced phase coherence in trapped bosons on optical lattices

The consequences of disorder on interacting bosons trapped in optical lattices are investigated by quantum Monte Carlo simulations. At small to moderate strengths of potential disorder a unique effect is observed: if there is a Mott plateau at the center of the trap in the clean limit, phase coherence {\it increases} as a result of disorder. The localization effects due to correlation and disorder compete against each other, resulting in a partial delocalization of the particles in the Mott region, which in turn leads to increased phase coherence. In the absence of a Mott plateau, this effect is absent. A detailed analysis of the uniform system without a trap shows that the disordered states participate in a Bose glass phase.

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arXiv2006

Scaling Behavior of Entanglement in Two- and Three-Dimensional Free Fermions

Exactly solving a spinless fermionic system in two and three dimensions, we investigate the scaling behavior of the block entropy in critical and non-critical phases. The scaling of the block entropy crucially depends on the nature of the excitation spectrum of the system and on the topology of the Fermi surface. Noticeably, in the critical phases the scaling violates the area law and acquires a logarithmic correction \emph{only} when a well defined Fermi surface exists in the system. When the area law is violated, we accurately verify a conjecture for the prefactor of the logarithmic correction, proposed by D. Gioev and I. Klich [quant-ph/0504151].

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