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Yuekun Niu

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arXiv2026

Local Spin Excitations Mediate Quasiparticle Breakdown in the Orbital-Selective Mott Phase

The orbital-selective Mott phase (OSMP) is commonly described as a coexistence of localized and itinerant electrons within effectively decoupled orbitals, but emerging evidence for quasiparticle breakdown points to physics beyond this picture, whose microscopic origin remains unknown. Using dynamical mean-field theory for the two-band Hubbard model, we show that the spin-flip and Ising-type components of Hund's coupling generate local spin excitations (LSEs). These LSEs couple electrons between different orbitals, renormalize quasiparticle lifetimes and binding energies, and thereby destroy well-defined quasiparticles in the OSMP. Removing these two components of Hund's coupling restores coherent quasiparticle behavior and fully decouples the charge dynamics of the two bands. Our results therefore identify electronic coupling to LSEs as the fundamental mechanism driving quasiparticle breakdown within the OSMP.

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arXiv2024

Quantitative determination of the orbital-selective Mott transition and quantum entanglement in the orbital-selective Mott phase

We examine the orbital-selective Mott transition in the non-hybridized two-band Hubbard model using the dynamical mean-field theory. We find that the orbital-selective Mott transition could be quantitatively depicted by the {local two-qubit fidelity}. Furthermore, within the orbital-selective Mott phase, the combined characteristics of the two orbitals lead to the presence of quantum entanglement, which is characterized by the non-semi-integer values of local two-qubit fidelity. It is demonstrated that the Hund's coupling results in the ground states of both wide and narrow bands exhibiting the specific superposition states, indicating the existence of quantum entanglement within orbital-selective Mott phase. Without Hund's coupling, there are no specific superposition states, nor does quantum entanglement occur within the orbital-selective Mott phase. The mechanisms underlying the orbital-selective Mott transition show prominent variations depending on the presence or absence of Hund's coupling and its transverse terms.

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arXiv2023

Quantitative Determination of the Critical Points of Mott Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Systems

Mottness is at the heart of the essential physics in a strongly correlated system as many novel quantum phenomena occur in the metallic phase near the Mott metal-insulator transition. We investigate the Mott transition in a Hubbard model by using the dynamical mean-field theory and introduce the local quantum state fidelity to depict the Mott metal-insulator transition. The local quantum state fidelity provides a convenient approach for determining the critical point of the Mott transition. Additionally, it presents a consistent description of the two distinct forms of the Mott transition points.

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arXiv2021

The study of doubly charmed pentaquark $c c \bar qqq$ with the SU(3) symmetry

We study the masses and lifetimes of doubly charmed pentaquark $P_{cc\bar qqq}(q=u,d,s)$ primarily. The operation of masses carried out by the doubly heavy triquark-diquark model, whose results suggests the existence of stable states $cc\bar s ud$ with the parity $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$. The roughly calculation about lifetimes show the short magnitudes, $(4.65^{+0.71}_{-0.55})\times 10^{-13}s $ for the parity $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$ and $(0.93^{+0.14}_{-0.11})\times 10^{-12} s $ for $J^P=\frac{3}{2}^-$. Since the pentaquark $cc\bar s ud$ is interpreted as the stable bound states against strong decays, then we will focus on the production and possible decay channels of the pentaquark in the next step, the study would be fairly valuable supports for future experiments. For completeness, we systematically studied the production from $Ω_{ccc}$ and the decay modes in the framework SU(3) flavor symmetry, including the processes of semi-leptonic and two body non-leptonic decays. Synthetically, we make a collection of the golden channels.

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arXiv2019

A dynamical mean-field study of orbital-selective Mott phase enhanced by next-nearest neighbor hopping

The dynamical mean-field theory is employed to study the orbital-selective Mott transition (OSMT) of the two-orbital Hubbard model with nearest neighbor hopping and next-nearest neighbor (NNN) hopping. The NNN hopping breaks the particle-hole symmetry at half filling and gives rise to an asymmetric density of states (DOS). Our calculations show that the broken symmetry of DOS benefits the OSMT, where the region of the orbital-selective Mott phase significantly extends with the increasing NNN hopping integral. We also find that Hund's rule coupling promotes OSMT by blocking the orbital fluctuations, but the influence of NNN hopping is more remarkable.

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arXiv2019

Doublon-holon excitations split by Hund's rule coupling within the orbital-selective Mott phase

Multiorbital interactions have the capacity to produce an interesting kind of doublon-holon bound state that consists of a single-hole state in one band and a doubly-occupied state in another band. Interband doublon-holon pair excitations in the two-orbital Hubbard model are studied by using dynamical mean-field theory with the Lanczos method as the impurity solver. We find that the interband bound states may provide several in-gap quasiparticle peaks in the density of states of the narrow band in the orbital-selective Mott phase with a small Hund's rule coupling ($J$). There exists a corresponding energy relation between the in-gap states of the narrow band and the peaks in the excitation spectrum of the doublon for the wide band. We also find that the spin flip and pair-hopping Hund interactions can divide one quasiparticle peak into two peaks, where the splitting energy increases linearly with increasing $J$. Strong Hund's rule coupling can move the interband doublon-holon pair excitations outside the Mott gap and restrict the bound states by suppressing the orbital selectivity of the doubly-occupied and single-hole states.

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arXiv2016

Bosonic edge states in gapped honeycomb lattices

By quantum Monte Carlo simulations of bosons in gapped honeycomb lattices, we show the existence of bosonic edge states. For single layer honeycomb lattice, bosonic edge states can be controlled to appear, cross the gap and merge into bulk states by an on-site potential applied on the outmost sites of the boundary. On bilayer honeycomb lattice, bosonic edge state traversing the gap at half filling is demonstrated. The topological origin of the bosonic edge states is discussed with pseudo Berry curvature. The results will simulate experimental studies of these exotic bosonic edge states with ultracold bosons trapped in honeycomb optical lattices.

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