Experimental Sightings of the Quantum Spin Liquid
Young Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Geometric inequalities for black holes
Sergio Dain Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Non-Abelian String and Particle Braiding in 3+1D Topological Order
Juven Wang Harvard University
PIRSA:14050015Renormalization Group Analysis of a Non-Fermi Liquid System
Ipsita Mandal Shiv Nadar University
PIRSA:14050014Exotic Magnetism on the FCC Lattice of 5dn Double Perovskites
Edwin Kermarrec McMaster University
PIRSA:14050026Quantum thermalization and many-body Anderson localization
David Huse Princeton University
Probing renormalization group flows using entanglement entropy
Mark Mezei Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Helical edge resistance introduced by charge disorder
Leonid Glazman Yale University
Localizing Braneworlds in Infinite Spaces
Kellogg Stelle Imperial College London
Experimental Sightings of the Quantum Spin Liquid
Young Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
PIRSA:14050016New states of matter may be produced if quantum effects and frustration conspire to prevent the ground state from achieving classical order. An example of a new quantum phase is the quantum spin liquid. Such spin liquids cannot be characterized by local order parameters; rather, they are distinctive by their possession of long range quantum entanglement. I will describe recent experimental progress in the quest to study quantum spin liquids in frustrated magnets. The kagome lattice, composed of corner-sharing triangles, is highly frustrated for antiferromagnetic spins. Materials based on the kagome lattice with spin-1/2 are ideal hosts for quantum spin liquid ground states. I will discuss our group’s work which includes single crystal growth, bulk characterization, and neutron scattering measurements of the S=1/2 kagome lattice material ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 (also known as herbertsmithite). Our inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the spin correlations in a single crystal sample reveal that the excitations are fractionalized, a hallmark signature of spin liquid physics.Geometric inequalities for black holes
Sergio Dain Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
A geometric inequality in General Relativity relates quantities that have both a physical interpretation and a geometrical definition. It is well known that the parameters that characterize the Kerr-Newman black hole (angular momentum, charge, mass and horizon area) satisfy several important geometric inequalities. Remarkably enough, some of these inequalities also hold for dynamical black holes. This kind of inequalities, which are valid in the dynamical and strong field regime, play an important role in the characterization of the gravitational collapse. They are closed related with the cosmic censorship conjecture. Also, variants of these inequalities are valid for ordinary bodies. In this talk I will review recent results in this subject.Non-Abelian String and Particle Braiding in 3+1D Topological Order
Juven Wang Harvard University
PIRSA:14050015String and particle excitations are examined in a class of 3+1D topological order described by a discrete gauge theory with a gauge group G and a 4-cocycle twist ω4∈H4(G,R/Z) of G's cohomology group. We demonstrate the topological spin and the spin-statistics relation for the closed strings, and their multi-string braiding. The 3+1D twisted gauge theory can be characterized by a representation of SL(3,Z) modular transformation, which we find its generators Sxyz and Txy in terms of the gauge group G and the 4-cocycle ω4. As we compactify one of the 3D's direction z into a compact circle inserted with a gauge flux b, we can use the generators of SL(2,Z) subgroup of SL(3,Z), Sxy and Txy, to study the dimension reduction of the 3D topological order C3D to a direct sum of degenerate states of 2D topological orders C2Db in different fluxb sectors: C3D=⊕bC2Db. The 2D topological orders C2Db are described by 2D gauge theories of the group G twisted by the 3-cocycles ω3(b)dimensionally reduced from the 4-cocycle ω4. We show that the SL(2,Z) generators, Sxy and Txy, fully encodes a particular type of three-string braiding statistics for the connected sum of two Hopf links 221#221 configuration. With certain 4-cocycle twist, we find that, by threading a third string through two-string unlink 021 into three-string Hopf links 221#221 configuration, Abelian two-string statistics is promoted to non-Abelian three-string statistics. (Work done in arxiv.org/abs/1404.7854)Renormalization Group Analysis of a Non-Fermi Liquid System
Ipsita Mandal Shiv Nadar University
PIRSA:14050014We devise a renormalization group analysis for quantum field theories with Fermi surface to study scaling behaviour of non- Fermi liquid states in a controlled approximation. The non-Fermi liquid fixed points are identified from a Fermi surface in (m+1) spatial dimensions, while the co-dimension of Fermi surface is also extended to a generic value. We also study superconducting instability in such systems as a function of dimension and co-dimension of the Fermi surface. The key point in this whole analysis is that unlike in relativistic QFT, the Fermi momentum kF enters as a dimensionful parameter, thus modifying the naive scaling arguments. The effective coupling constant is found to be a combination of the original coupling constant and kF.Exotic Magnetism on the FCC Lattice of 5dn Double Perovskites
Edwin Kermarrec McMaster University
PIRSA:14050026In the search for new exotic quantum states, the impact of strong spin-orbit interaction has been recently underlined with the discovery of the Jeff = ½ spin orbital Mott state in the 5d5 layered perovskites iridates [1]. The double perovskite structure, where the magnetic ions form a face-centered-cubic (fcc) sublattice, can accommodate a large variety of 5d transition metal elements, and therefore offers an ideal playground for systematic studies of the exotic magnetic and non-magnetic ground states stabilized by strong spin-orbit coupling [2]. Here, we report time-of-flight neutron scattering measurements on the antiferromagnetic, frustrated, cubic double perovskite system Ba2YOsO6. Its non-distorted fcc lattice is decorated with magnetic Os5+ (5d3) ions which undergo a magnetic transition to a long range ordered antiferromagnetic state below TN = 70 K, as revealed by magnetic Bragg peaks occuring at the [100] and [110] positions. Our inelastic data reveals a large spin gap to the spin-wave excitations Δ = 19(2) meV, unexpected for an orbitally quenched, d3 electronic configuration. We compare this result to the recent observation of a Δ=5 meV spin gap in the related cubic double perovskite Ba2YRuO6 (Ru5+, 4d3) [3], and conclude to a stronger spin-orbit coupling present in the heavier, 5d, osmate system.
[1] B. J. Kim et al., Science 323, 1329 (2009).
[2] G. Chen, R. Pereira and L. Balents, Phys. Rev. B 82, 174440 (2010);
G. Chen and L. Balents, Phys. Rev. B 84, 094420 (2011).
[3] J. P. Carlo et al., Phys. Rev. B 88, 024418 (2013).Entanglement, Ergodicity, and Many-Body Localization
PIRSA:14050020We are used to describing systems of many particles by statistical mechanics. However, the basic postulate of statistical mechanics – ergodicity – breaks down in so-called many-body localized systems, where disorder prevents particle transport and thermalization. In this talk, I will present a theory of the many-body localized (MBL) phase, based on new insights from quantum entanglement. I will argue that, in contrast to ergodic systems, MBL eigenstates are not highly entangled. I will use this fact to show that MBL phase is characterized by an infinite number of emergent local conservation laws, in terms of which the Hamiltonian acquires a universal form. Turning to the experimental implications, I will describe the response of MBL systems to quenches: surprisingly, entanglement shows logarithmic in time growth, reminiscent of glasses, while local observables exhibit power-law approach to “equilibrium” values. I will support the presented theory with results of numerical experiments. I will close by discussing other directions in exploring ergodicity and its breaking in quantum many-body systems.Localization-Protected Quantum Order
David Huse Princeton University
PIRSA:14050013Systems that are many-body Anderson localized can exhibit symmetry-breaking long-range order or topological order in regimes where such order would be destroyed at equilibrium by thermal fluctuations. The ordering is dynamical: an ordered initial state stays ordered, being "protected" by the localization of all fluctuations. The simplest examples are quantum Ising models with static randomness. For the random quantum Ising chain this feature has been "known" but apparently not appreciated for close to half a century.
Ref.: Huse, et al., Phys. Rev. B 88, 014206 (2013).Quantum thermalization and many-body Anderson localization
David Huse Princeton University
Progress in physics and quantum information science motivates much recent study of the behavior of strongly-interacting many-body quantum systems fully isolated from their environment, and thus undergoing unitary time evolution. What does it mean for such a system to go to thermal equilibrium? I will explain the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), which posits that each individual exact eigenstate of the system's Hamiltonian is at thermal equilibrium, and which appears to be true for most (but not all) quantum many-body systems. Prominent among the systems that do not obey this hypothesis are quantum systems that are many-body Anderson localized and thus do not constitute a reservoir that can thermalize itself. When the ETH is true, one can do standard statistical mechanics using the `single-eigenstate ensembles', which are the limit of the microcanonical ensemble where the `energy window' contains only a single many-body quantum state. These eigenstate ensembles are more powerful than the traditional statistical mechanical ensembles, in that they can also "see" the quantum phase transition in to the localized phase, as well as a rich new world of phases and phase transitions within the localized phase.Probing renormalization group flows using entanglement entropy
Mark Mezei Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The entanglement entropy of the vacuum of a quantum field theory contains information about physics at all scales and is UV sensitive. A simple refinement of entanglement entropy gets rid of its UV divergence, and allows us to extract entanglement per scale. In two and three spacetime dimensions this quantity can be used as a proxy for the number of degrees of freedom, as it decreases under RG flow. We investigate its behavior around fixed points, and reveal its interesting analytic structure in the space of couplings.Helical edge resistance introduced by charge disorder
Leonid Glazman Yale University
Electron puddles created by doping of a 2D topological insulator may violate the ideal helical edge conductance. Because of a long electron dwelling time, even a single puddle may lead to a significant inelastic backscattering. We find the resulting correction to the perfect edge conductance. Generalizing to multiple puddles, we assess the dependence of the helical edge resistance on temperature and on the doping level. Puddles with odd electron number carry a spin and lead to a logarithmically-weak temperature dependence of the resistivity of a long edge. The developed theory provides a framework for analyzing the results of the past and ongoing electron transport experiments with 2D topological insulatorsLocalizing Braneworlds in Infinite Spaces
Kellogg Stelle Imperial College London
There have been a number of attempts to achieve a localization of gravity on a braneworld hypersurface embedded in an infinite spacetime, but these have all fallen short of what might be desired, for various reasons. There have even been no-go theorems claimed for constructions made using just accepted elements of string or M theory. The talk will present a proposed resolution of this problem based upon a hyperbolic solution of type IIA theory with a superposed NS-5 brane. Gravity is bound to the brane surface owing to the existence of a single normalizable bound state of the transverse space Laplacian.