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Wu-Ming Liu

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arXiv2015

Controlling quantum spin Hall state via strain in various stacking bilayer phosphorene

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) state of matter has a charge excitation bulk bandgap and a pair of gapless spin-filtered edge-states, which can support backscattering-free transport. Bilayer phosphorene possesses a large tunable bandgap and high carrier mobilities, and therefore has the widely potential applications in nanoelectronics and optics. Here, we demonstrate an strain-induced electronic topological phase transition from a normal to QSH state in bilayer phosphorene accompanying by a band inversion that changes $\mathbbm{Z}_{2}$ from 0 to 1, which is highly dependent on the interlayer stacking. When the bottom layer is shifted by 1/2 unit cell along axial direction with respect to the top layer, the topological bandgap reaches up to 92.5 meV, which is sufficiently large to realize the QSH effect at room temperature. Its optical absorption spectrum becomes broadened, and even extends to the far-infra-red region leading to a wider range of brightness, which is highly desirable in optic devices.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2015

Crystallized and amorphous vortices in rotating atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

Vortex is a topological defect with a quantized winding number of the phase in superfluids and superconductors. Here, we investigate the crystallized (triangular, square, honeycomb) and amorphous vortices in rotating atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) by using the damped projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The amorphous vortices are the result of the considerable deviation induced by the interaction of atomic-molecular vortices. By changing the atom-molecule interaction from attractive to repulsive, the configuration of vortices can change from an overlapped atomic-molecular vortices to carbon-dioxide-type ones, then to atomic vortices with interstitial molecular vortices, and finally into independent separated ones. The Raman detuning can tune the ratio of the atomic vortex to the molecular vortex. We provide a phase diagram of vortices in rotating atomic-molecular BECs as a function of Raman detuning and the strength of atom-molecule interaction.

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arXiv2015

Supersolid with nontrivial topological spin textures in spin-orbit-coupled Bose gases

Supersolid is a long-sought exotic phase of matter, which is characterized by the coexistence of a diagonal long-range order of solid and an off-diagonal long-range order of superfluid. Possible candidates to realize such a phase have been previously considered, including hard-core bosons with long-range interaction and soft-core bosons. Here we demonstrate that an ultracold atomic condensate of hard-core bosons with contact interaction can establish a supersolid phase when simultaneously subjected to spin-orbit coupling and a spin-dependent periodic potential. This supersolid phase is accompanied by topologically nontrivial spin textures, and is signaled by the separation of momentum distribution peaks, which can be detected via time-of-flight measurements. We also discuss possibilities to produce and observe the supersolid phase for realistic experimental situations.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2015

Ultra-high mechanical stretchability and controllable topological phase transitions in two-dimensional arsenic

The mechanical stretchability is the magnitude of strain which a material can suffer before it breaks. Materials with high mechanical stretchability, which can reversibly withstand extreme mechanical deformation and cover arbitrary surfaces and movable parts, are used for stretchable display devices, broadband photonic tuning and aberration-free optical imaging. Strain can be utilised to control the band structures of materials and can even be utilised to induce a topological phase transition, driving the normal insulators to topological non-trivial materials with non-zero Chern number or Z2 number. Here, we propose a new two-dimensional topological material with ultra-high mechanical stretchability - the ditch-like 2D arsenic. This new anisotropic material possesses a large Poisson's ratio 1.049, which is larger than any other reported inorganic materials and has a ultra-high stretchability 44% along the armchair direction, which is unprecedent in inorganic materials as far as we know. Its minimum bend radius of this material can be as low as 0.66 nm, which is comparable to the radius of carbon-nanotube. Such mechanical properties make this new material be a stretchable semiconductor which could be used to construct flexible display devices and stretchable sensors. Axial strain will make a conspicuous affect on the band structure of the system, and a proper strain along the zigzag direction will drive the 2D arsenic into the topological insulator in which the topological edge state can host dissipation-less spin current and spin transfer toque, which are useful in spintronics devices such as dissipation transistor, interconnect channels and spin valve devices.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2014

Tuning a magnetic Feshbach resonance with spatially modulated laser light

We theoretically investigate the control of a magnetic Feshbach resonance using a bound-to-bound molecular transition driven by spatially modulated laser light. Due to the spatially periodic coupling between the ground and excited molecular states, there exists a band structure of bound states, which can uniquely be characterized by some extra bumps in radio-frequency spectroscopy. With the increasing of coupling strength, the series of bound states will cross zero energy and directly result in a number of scattering resonances, whose position and width can be conveniently tuned by the coupling strength of the laser light and the applied magnetic field (i.e., the detuning of the ground molecular state). In the presence of the modulated laser light, universal two-body bound states near zero-energy threshold still exist. However, compared with the case without modulation, the regime for such universal states is usually small. An unified formula which embodies the influence of the modulated coupling on the resonance width is given. The spatially modulated coupling also implies a local spatially varying interaction between atoms. Our work proposes a practical way of optically controlling interatomic interactions with high spatial resolution and negligible atomic loss.

physics.atom-ph↗

arXiv2014

Negative differential conductance and super-Poissonian shot noise in single-molecule magnet junctions

Molecular spintroinic device based on a single-molecule magnet is one of the ultimate goals of semiconductor nanofabrication technologies. It is thus necessary to understand the electron transport properties of a single-molecule magnet junction. Here we study the negative differential conductance and super-Poissonian shot noise properties of electron transport through a single-molecule magnet weakly coupled to two electrodes with either one or both of them being ferromagnetic. We predict that the negative differential conductance and super-Poissonian shot noise, which can be tuned by a gate voltage, depend sensitively on the spin polarization of the source and drain electrodes. In particular, the shot noise in the negative differential conductance region can be enhanced or decreased originating from the different formation mechanisms of negative differential conductance. The effective competition between fast and slow transport channels is responsible for the observed negative differential conductance and super-Poissonian shot noise. In addition, we further discuss the skewness and kurtosis properties of transport current in the super-Poissonian shot noise regions. Our findings suggest a tunable negative differential conductance molecular device, and the predicted properties of high-order current cumulants are very interesting for a better understanding of electron transport through single-molecule magnet junctions.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2014

Pairing sizes in attractively interacting Fermi gases with Spin-orbit Couplings

Extensive research has been lavished on effects of spin-orbit couplings (SOC) in attractively interacting Fermi systems in both neutral cold atom systems and condensed matter systems. Recently, it was suggested that a SOC drives a new class of BCS to BEC crossover which is different than the conventional one without a SOC. Here, we explore what are the most relevant physical quantities to describe such a new BCS to BEC crossover and their experimental detections. We extend the concepts of the pairing length and "Cooper-pair size" in the absence of SOC to Fermi systems with SOC. We investigate the dependence of chemical potential, pairing length, "Cooper-pair size" on the SOC strength and the scattering length at $ 3d $ (the bound state energy at $ 2d $) for three attractively interacting Fermi gases with 3 dimensional (3d) Rashba, 3d Weyl and 2d Rashba SOC respectively. We show that only the pairing length can be used to characterize this new BCS to BEC crossover. Furthermore, it is the only length which can be directly measured by radio-frequency dissociation spectra type of experiments. We stress crucial differences among the pairing length, "Cooper-pair size " and the two-body bound state size. Our results provide the fundamental and global picture of the new BCS to BEC crossover and its experimental detections in various cold atom and condensed matter systems.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2014

Excitation Spectra and Hard-core Thermodynamics of Bosonic Atoms In Double Well Optical Lattices

A general coupled representation is proposed for bosonic atoms in double well optical lattices. Based on such a representation, we investigate the excitation spectra and thermodynamics of bosonic atoms in the optical lattices. We find excitation spectra of the double well system with filling factor equal to one can be described by simultaneous excitations composed of pseudo particles corresponding to doubly occupied and empty double wells. It is demonstrated that hard-core bosonic statistics must be taken into account in order to properly describe the equilibrium properties at finite temperatures. For this we calculate the temperature dependence curves of particle numbers and heat capacity, in which the hard-core features are clearly shown. At last, the cases with filling factors unequal to one are also briefly discussed.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2014

Fragmentation of Spin-orbit Coupled Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

The fragmentation of spin-orbit coupled spin-1 Bose gas with a weak interaction in external harmonic trap is explored by both exact diagonalization and mean-field theory. This fragmentation tendency, which originates from the total angular momentum conservation, is affected obviously by the spin-orbit coupling strength and the spin-dependent interaction. Strong spin-orbit interaction raises the inverse participation ratio, which describes the number of significantly occupied single-particle states. As the spin-dependent interaction changes from anti-ferromagnetic to ferromagnetic, the peak values in the inverse participation ratio become lower. Without the confinement of the appointed total angular momentum, the condensate chooses a zero or finite total angular momentum ground state, which is determined by both the interaction and the spin-orbit coupling strength.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2014

Drag force on a moving impurity in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate

We investigate the drag force on a moving impurity in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate. We prove rigorously that the superfluid critical velocity is zero when the impurity moves in all but one directions, in contrast to the case of liquid helium and superconductor where it is finite in all directions. We also find that when the impurity moves in all directions except two special ones, the drag force has nonzero transverse component at small velocity. When the velocity becomes large and the states of the upper band are also excited, the transverse force becomes very small due to opposite contributions of the two bands. The characteristics of the superfluid critical velocity and the transverse force are results of the order by disorder mechanism in spin-orbit coupled boson systems.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2014

Ground-state Riemannian metric, cyclic quantum distance, and the quantum criticality in an inhomogeneous Ising spin chain

We investigate the ground-state Riemannian metric and the cyclic quantum distance of an inhomogeneous quantum Ising spin-1/2 chain in a transverse field. This model can be diagonalized by using a general canonical transformation to the fermionic Hamiltonian mapped from the spin system. The ground-state Riemannian metric is derived exactly on a parameter manifold ring $S^1$, which is introduced by performing a gauge transformation to the spin Hamiltonian through a twist operator. The ground-state cyclic quantum distance and the second derivative of the ground-state energy are studied in different inhomogeneous exchange coupling parameter region. Particularly, we show that the quantum ferromagnetic phase in the uniform Ising chain can be characterized by an invariant cyclic quantum distance with a constant ground-state Riemannian metric, and this metric will rapidly decay to zero in the paramagnetic phase.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2014

Universal Bose Gases Near Resonance: A Rigorous Solution

We obtain a rigorous solution of universal Bose gases near resonance and offer an answer to one of the long-standing challenges of quantum gases at large scattering lengths, where the standard dilute theory breaks down. The solution was obtained by using an $ε$ expansion near four spatial dimension. In dimension $d = 4 - ε$, the chemical potential of Bose gases near resonances is shown to approach the universal value $ε^{(2/(4-ε))} ε_F \sqrt{2/3} (1 + 0.474 ε- i 1.217 ε+ ...)$, where $ε_F$ is the Fermi energy defined for a Fermi gas of density $n$, and the condensation fraction is equal to $2/3 (1 + 0.0877 ε+ ...)$. We also discuss the implications on ultra-cold gases in physical dimensions.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2014

Renormalization group analysis of $p$-orbital Bose-Einstein condensates in a square optical lattice

We investigate the quantum fluctuation effects in the vicinity of the critical point of a $p$-orbital bosonic system in a square optical lattice using Wilsonian renormalization group, where the $p$-orbital bosons condense at nonzero momenta and display rich phases including both time-reversal symmetry invariant and broken BEC states. The one-loop renormalization group analysis generates corrections to the mean-field phase boundaries. We also show the quantum fluctuations in the $p$-orbital system tend to induce the ordered phase but not destroy it via the the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, which is qualitative different from the ordinary quantum fluctuation corrections to the mean-field phase boundaries in $s$-orbital systems. Finally we discuss the observation of these phenomena in the realistic experiment.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2014

Layer Anti-Ferromagnetism on Bilayer Honeycomb Lattice

Bilayer honeycomb lattice, with inter-layer tunneling energy, has a parabolic dispersion relation, which causes the charge imbalance between two sublattices. Here, we investigate the metal-insulator and magnetic phase transitions on the strongly correlated bilayer honeycomb lattice by cellular dynamical mean-field theory combined with continuous time quantum Monte Carlo method. We find that different kinds of magnetic spontaneous symmetry breaking on dimer and non-dimer sites, cause a novel phase transition between normal anti-ferromagnet and layer anti-ferromagnet. We sketch the phase diagrams as the function of temperature, interaction and inter-layer hopping. Finally, we set up an experimental protocol for cold atoms in optical lattice to observe these phenomena in future experiments.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2014

Mott transition and Antiferromagnetic Metal on Shastry-Sutherland Lattice

The Shastry-Sutherland lattice, one of the simplest systems with geometric frustration, which has an exact eigenstate by putting singlets on diagonal bonds, can be realized in a group of layered compounds and rises both theoretical and experimental interest. Most of the previous studies on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice are focusing on the Heisenberg model. Here we opt for the Hubbard model to calculate phase diagrams over a wide range of interaction parameters, and show the competing effects of interaction, frustration and temperature. At low temperature, frustration is shown to favor a paramagnetic metallic ground state, while interaction drives the system to an antiferromagnetic insulator phase. Between these two phases, there are an antiferromagnetic metal phase and a paramagnetic insulator (which should be a valence bond solid) phase resulting from the competition of the frustration and the interaction. Our results may shed light on more exhaustive studies about quantum phase transitions in this lattice.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2014

The d-p band-inversion topological insulator in bismuth-based skutterudites

Skutterudites, a class of materials with cage-like crystal structure which have received considerable research interest in recent years, are the breeding ground of several unusual phenomena such as heavy fermion superconductivity, exciton-mediated superconducting state and Weyl fermions. Here, we predict a new topological insulator in bismuth-based skutterudites, in which the bands involved in the topological band-inversion process are d- and p-orbitals, which is distinctive with usual topological insulators, for instance in Bi2Se3 and BiTeI the bands involved in the topological band-inversion process are only p-orbitals. Due to the present of large d-electronic states, the electronic interaction in this topological insulator is much stronger than that in other conventional topological insulators. The stability of the new material is verified by binding energy calculation, phonon modes analysis, and the finite temperature molecular dynamics simulations. This new material can provide nearly zero-resistivity signal current for devices and is expected to be applied in spintronics devices.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2013

Nematic Metal and Antiferromagnetic Insulator on Hexagonal Kagome Lattice

Hexagonal Kagome lattice is a multiband system with a quadratic band crossing point, in contrast with honeycomb lattice with linear band crossing point, which has exotic correlated effect and can produce various novel quantum states. Here we investigate the phase diagram of the fermions on the hexagonal Kagome lattice as a function of interaction, temperature and lattice anisotropy, by combining the cellular dynamical mean-field theory with the continuous time quantum Monte Carlo method. For weak interaction, the quadratic band-crossing point is broken to linear band crossing point and the system is the semi-metal. With the increasing of the interaction, the system goes a first order transition to antiferromagnetic Mott insulator at low temperature. Below a critical temperature, due to the charge nematic fluctuation, a nematic metal forms between the weak coupling semi-metal and strong correlated Mott insulator. When the lattice anisotropy increases, the region of the nematic metal is enlarged. Furthermore, we discuss how to detect these phases in real experiments.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2013

The confinement induced resonance in spin-orbit coupled cold atoms with Raman coupling

We investigate the confinement induced resonance in spin-orbit coupled cold atoms with Raman coupling. We find that the quasi-bound levels induced by the spin-orbit coupling and Raman coupling result in the Feshbach-type resonances. For sufficiently large Raman coupling, the bound states in one dimension exist only for sufficiently strong attractive interaction. Furthermore, the bound states in quasi-one dimension exist only for sufficient large ratio of the length scale of confinement to three dimensional s-wave scattering length. The Raman coupling substantially changes the confinement-induced resonance position. We give a proposal to realize confinement induced resonance by increasing the Raman coupling strength in experiments.

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