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Yue Yu

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An exactly soluble model with tunable p-wave paired fermion ground states

Motivated by the work of Kitaev, we construct an exactly soluble spin-$\frac{1}2$ model on honeycomb lattice whose ground states are identical to $Δ_{1x}p_x+Δ_{1y}p_y+i(Δ_{2x}p_x+Δ_{2y}p_y)$-wave paired fermions on square lattice, with tunable paring order parameters. We derive a universal phase diagram for this general p-wave theory which contains a gapped A phase and a topologically non-trivial B phase. We show that the gapless condition in the B phase is governed by a generalized inversion (G-inversion) symmetry under $p_x\leftrightarrow {Δ_{1y}\over Δ_{1x}} p_y$. The G-inversion symmetric gapless B phase near the phase boundaries is described by 1+1-dimensional gapless Majorana fermions in the asymptotic long wave length limit, i.e. the $c=1/2$ conformal field theory. The gapped B phase has G-inversion symmetry breaking and is the weak pairing phase described by the Moore-Read Pfaffian. We show that in the gapped B phase, vortex pair excitations are separated from the ground state by a finite energy gap.

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Explicit illustration of non-abelian fusion rules in a small spin lattice

We exactly solve a four-site spin model with site-dependent Kitaev's coupling in a tetrahedron by means of an analytical diagonalization. The non-abelian fusion rules of eigen vortex excitations in this small lattice model are explicitly illustrated in real space by using Pauli matrices. Comparing with solutions of Kitaev models on large lattices, our solution gives an intuitional picture using real space spin configurations to directly express zero modes of Majorana fermions, non-abelian vortices and non-abelian fusion rules. We generalize the single tetrahedron model to a chain model of tetrahedrons on a torus and find the non-abelian vortices become well-defined non-abelian anyons. We believe these manifest results are very helpful to demonstrate the nonabelian anyon in laboratory.

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Solitons and vortices in an evolving Bose-Einstein condensate

Spatiotemporal evolution of a confined Bose-Einstein condensate is studied by numerically integrating the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Self-interference between the successively expanding and reflecting nonlinear matter waves results in spiral atomic density profile, which subsequently degenerates into an embedding structure: The inner part preserves memory of the initial states while the outer part forms a sequence of necklacelike rings. The phase plot reveals a series of discrete concentric belts. The large gradients between adjacent belts indicate that the ring density notches are dark solitons. In the dynamical process, a scenario of vortex-antivortex pairs are spontaneously created and annihilated, whereas the total vorticity keeps invariant.

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Anyonic Loops in Three Dimensional Spin liquid and Chiral Spin Liquid

We established a large class of exactly soluble spin liquids and chiral spin liquids on three dimensional helix lattices by introducing Kitaev-type's spin coupling. In the chiral spin liquids, exact stable ground states with spontaneous breaking of the time reversal symmetry are found. The fractionalized loop excitations in both the spin and chiral spin liquids obey non-abelian statistics. We characterize this kind of statistics by non-abelian Berry phase and quantum algebra relation. The topological correlation of loops is independent of local order parameter and it measures the intrinsic global quantum entanglement of degenerate ground states.

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Explicit demonstration of nonabelian anyon, braiding matrix and fusion rules in the Kitaev-type spin honeycomb lattice models

The exact solubility of the Kitaev-type spin honeycomb lattice model was proved by means of a Majorana fermion representation or a Jordan-Wigner transformation while the explicit form of the anyon in terms of Pauli matrices became not transparent. The nonabelian statistics of anyons and the fusion rules can only be expressed in indirect ways to Pauli matrices. We convert the ground state and anyonic excitations back to the forms of Pauli matrices and explicitly demonstrate the nonabelian anyonic statistics as well as the fusion rules. These results may instruct the experimental realization of the nonabelian anyons. We suggest a proof-in-principle experiment to verify the existence of the nonabelian anyons in nature.

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Supersymmetry and Goldstino-like Mode in Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Supersymmetry is assumed to be a basic symmetry of the world in many high energy theories, but none of the super partners of any known elementary particle has been observed yet. We argue that supersymmetry can also be realized and studied in ultracold atomic systems with a mixture of bosons and fermions, with properly tuned interactions and single particle dispersion. We further show that in such non-releativistic systems supersymmetry is either spontaneously broken, or explicitly broken by a chemical potential difference between the bosons and fermions. In both cases the system supports a sharp fermionic collective mode or the so-called Goldstino, due to supersymmetry. We also discuss possible ways to detect the Goldstino mode experimentally.

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Quaternate generalization of Pfaffian state at $ν=5/2$

We consider a quaternately generalized Pfaffian QGPf$(\frac{1}{J(z_i,z_j,z_k,z_l)})[J(z_1,...,z_N)]^2$ in which the square of Vandermonde determinant, $[J(z_1,...,z_N)]^2$, implies the upmost Landau level is half filled. This wave function is the unique highest density zero energy state of a special short range interacting Hamiltonian. One can think this quaternate composite fermion liquid as a competing ground state of Moore-Read (MR) Pfaffian state at $ν=5/2$. The degeneracy of the quasihole excitations above the QGPf is higher than that of Moore-Read even Read-Rezayi quasiholes. The QGPf is related to a unitary conformal field theory with $Z_2\times Z_2$ parafermions in coset space $SU(3)_2/U(1)^2$ . Because of the level-rank duality between $SU(3)_2$ and $SU(2)_3$ in conformal field theory, these quasiholes above this QGPf state obeying non-abelian anyonic statistics are expected to support the universal quantum computation at $ν=5/2$ as Read-Rezayi quasiholes at $ν=13/5$. The edge states of QGPf are very different from those of the Pfaffian's.

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Gauge symmetry in Kitaev-type spin models and index theorems on odd manifolds

We construct an exactly soluble spin-$\frac{1}2$ model on a honeycomb lattice, which is a generalization of Kitaev model. The topological phases of the system are analyzed by study of the ground state sector of this model, the vortex-free states. Basically, there are two phases, A phase and B phase. The behaviors of both A and B phases may be studied by mapping the ground state sector into a general p-wave paired states of spinless fermions with tunable pairing parameters on a square lattice. In this p-wave paired state theory, the A phase is shown to be the strong paired phase, an insulating phase. The B phase may be either gapped or gapless determined by the generalized inversion symmetry is broken or not. The gapped B is the weak pairing phase described by either the Moore-Read Pfaffian state of the spinless fermions or anti-Pfaffian state of holes depending on the sign of the next nearest neighbor hopping amplitude. A phase transition between Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian states are found in the gapped B phase. Furthermore, we show that there is a hidden SU(2) gauge symmetry in our model. In the gapped B phase, the ground state has a non-trivial topological number, the spectral first Chern number or the chiral central charge, which reflects the chiral anomaly of the edge state. We proved that the topological number is identified to the reduced eta-invariant and this anomaly may be cancelled by a bulk Wess-Zumino term of SO(3) group through an index theorem in 2+1 dimensions.

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Dynamics of edge Majorana fermions in $ν=\frac{5}2$ fractional quantum Hall effects

Commencing with the composite fermion description of the $ν=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall effect, we study the dynamics of the edge neutral Majorana fermions. We confirm that these neutral modes are chiral and show that a conventional p-wave pairing interaction between CFs does not contribute to the dynamics of the edge neutral fermions. We find an important bilinear coupling between the charged and neutral modes. We show that owing to this coupling, the dispersion of the neutral modes is linear and their velocities are proportional to the wave vector of the charged mode. This dynamic origin of the motion of the edge Majorana fermions was never expected before.

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The Extended Bose Hubbard Model on the Two Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice

We study the extended Bose-Hubbard model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice by using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We present the ground state phase diagrams for both the hard-core case and the soft-core case. For the hard-core case, the transition between $ρ=1/2$ solid and the superfluid is first order and the supersolid state is unstable towards phase separation. For the soft-core case, due to the presence of the multiple occupation, a stable particle induced supersolid (SS-p) phase emerges when $1/2<ρ<1$. The transition from the solid at $ρ=1/2$ to the SS-p is second order with the superfluid density scaling as $ ρ_{s} \sim ρ-1/2 $. The SS-p has the same diagonal order as the solid at $ ρ=1/2 $. As the chemical potential increasing further, the SS-p will turn into a solid where two bosons occupying each site of a sublattice through a first order transition. We also calculate the critical exponents of the transition between $ρ=1/2$ solid and superfluid at the Heisenberg point for the hard core case. We find the dynamical critical exponent $z=0.15$, which is smaller than results obtained on smaller lattices. This indicates that $ z $ approaches zero in the thermodynamic limit, so the transition is also first order even at the Heisenberg point.

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Nature of Intermediate States between Superfluid and Mott insulator for Interacting Bosons in One-dimension with a Harmonic Trapping Potential

Successive quantum transitions in an intermediate regime are shown to exist between the superfluid and Mott insulating states for interacting bosonic atoms in one dimension with a trapping potential. These transitions, which are caused by the interplay of the trapping potential with the competition between the kinetic energy and the interaction, reveal novel many-body effects as reflected by low-lying excitation behavior, unconventional long-range correlations and an even-odd alternating squeezing process of superfluid bosons into the Mott insulating state. These features, most likely being generic for all dimensions when a trapping potential is involved, are relevant for both experimental observations and physical interpretation of the Mott insulator transition.

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Finite-temperature effects on the number fluctuation of ultracold atoms across the Superfluid to Mott-insulator transition

We study the thermodynamics of ultracold Bose atoms in optical lattices by numerically diagonalizing the mean-field Hamiltonian of the Bose-Hubbard model. This method well describes the behavior of long-range correlations and therefore is valid deep in the superfluid phase. For the homogeneous Bose-Hubbard model, we draw the finite-temperature phase diagram and calculate the superfluid density at unity filling. We evaluate the finite-temperature effects in a recent experiment probing number fluctuation [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 090401 (2006)], and find that our finite-temperature curves give a better fitting to the experimental data, implying non-negligible temperature effects in this experiment.

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Number Statistics of Ultracold Bosons in Optical Lattice

We study the number statistics of ultracold bosons in optical Lattice using the slave particle technique and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. For homogeneous Bose-Hubbard model, we use the slave particle technique to obtain the number statistics near the superfluid to normal-liquid phase transition. The qualitatively behavior agree with the recent experiment probing number fluctuation [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 090401 (2006)]. We also perform quantum Monte Carlo simulations to 1D system with external harmonic trap. The results qualitatively agree with the experiments.

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Calogero-Sutherland gas of ultracold Bose atoms

We show that the Calogero-Sutherland (C-S) gas, a famous exact soluble one-dimensional system with an inverse square long range interaction, can be realized by dimension reduction in a cold Bose atom system with a dipole-dipole interaction. Depending on the orientation of the dipoles, the effective interaction is either attractive or repulsive. The low-lying effective theory may be a Luttinger liquid when the exclusion statistics parameter $λ$ may be well-defined. We hope that the C-S gas can be realized experimentally and the Luttinger liquid character can be observed.

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The Hall effect of dipole chain in one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation

We find a breather behavior of the dipole chain, this breather excitation obey fractional statistics, it could be an experimental quantity to detect anyon. A Hall effect of magnetic monopole in a dipole chain of ultracold molecules is also presented, we show that this Hall effect can induce the flip of magnetic dipole chain.

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Calogero-Sutherland-Lieb-Liniger gas in one-dimensional cold atoms

We study an array of cigar-like Bose atom condensates confined in a cylinder and examine the competition between the dipole-dipole and the short range interactions. The system is effectively reduced to a one-dimensional boson one with a contact and inverse square interactions. We call this system the Calogero-Sutherland-Lieb-Liniger gas. The universal properties of the ground state are analyzed by the renormalization group theory. By using the bosonization techniques to the excluson gas, we calculate the non-universal exponent depending on the microscopic parameters. This exponent may be experimentally measurable.

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Slave particle approach to the finite temperature properties of ultracold Bose gases in optical lattices

By using slave particle (slave boson and slave fermion) technique on the Bose-Hubbard model, we study the finite temperature properties of ultracold Bose gases in optical lattices. The phase diagrams at finite temperature are depicted by including different types of slave particles and the effect of the finite types of slave particles is estimated. The superfluid density is evaluated using the Landau second order phase transition theory. The atom density, excitation spectrum and dispersion curve are also computed at various temperatures, and how the Mott-insulator evolves as the temperature increases is demonstrated. For most quantities to be calculated, we find that there are no qualitatively differences in using the slave boson or the slave fermion approaches. However, when studying the stability of the mean field state, we find that in contrast to the slave fermion approach, the slave boson mean field state is not stable. Although the slave boson mean field theory gives a qualitatively correct phase boundary, it corresponds to a local maximum of Landau free energy and can not describe the second order phase transition because the coefficient $a_4$ of the fourth order term is always negative in the free energy expansion.

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