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Ultracold Fermi gases trapped in honeycomb optical lattices provide an intriguing scenario, where relativistic quantum electrodynamics can be tested. Here, we generalize this system to non-Abelian quantum electrodynamics, where massless Dirac fermions interact with effective non-Abelian gauge fields. We show how in this setup a variety of topological phase transitions occur, which arise due to massless fermion pair production events, as well as pair annihilation events of two kinds: spontaneous and strongly-interacting induced. Moreover, such phase transitions can be controlled and characterized in optical lattice experiments.
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Concentrating on bosonic lattice systems, we ask whether and how Excited State Quantum Phase Transition (ESQPT) singularities occur in condensed matter systems with ground state QPTs. We study in particular the spectral singularities above the ground-state phase diagram of the boson Hubbard model. As a general prerequisite, we point out the analogy between ESQPTs and van Hove singularities (vHss).
The interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology opens an exciting avenue for engineering novel topological matter with unprecedented properties. While previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional systems or Chern insulators, here we investigate topological phase transitions to/from quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators driven by non-Hermiticity. We show that a trivial to QSH insulator phase transition can be induced by solely varying non-Hermitian terms, and there exists exceptional edge arcs in QSH phases. We establish two topological invariants for characterizing the non-Hermitian phase transitions: i) with time-reversal symmetry, the biorthogonal $mathbb{Z}_2$ invariant based on non-Hermitian Wilson loops, and ii) without time-reversal symmetry, a biorthogonal spin Chern number through biorthogonal decompositions of the Bloch bundle of the occupied bands. These topological invariants can be applied to a wide class of non-Hermitian topological phases beyond Chern classes, and provides a powerful tool for exploring novel non-Hermitian topological matter and their device applications.
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Bloch oscillations (BOs) are a fundamental phenomenon by which a wave packet undergoes a periodic motion in a lattice when subjected to an external force. Observed in a wide range of synthetic lattice systems, BOs are intrinsically related to the geometric and topological properties of the underlying band structure. This has established BOs as a prominent tool for the detection of Berry phase effects, including those described by non-Abelian gauge fields. In this work, we unveil a unique topological effect that manifests in the BOs of higher-order topological insulators through the interplay of non-Abelian Berry curvature and quantized Wilson loops. It is characterized by an oscillating Hall drift that is synchronized with a topologically-protected inter-band beating and a multiplied Bloch period. We elucidate that the origin of this synchronization mechanism relies on the periodic quantum dynamics of Wannier centers. Our work paves the way to the experimental detection of non-Abelian topological properties in synthetic matter through the measurement of Berry phases and center-of-mass displacements.
The study of magnonic thermal Hall effect has recently attracted attention because this effect can be associated with topological phases activated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, which acts similar to a spin-orbital coupling in an electronic system. A topological phase transition may arise when there exist two or more distinct topological phases, and this transition is often revealed by a gap closing. In this work, we consider a ferromagnetic honeycomb lattice described by a Hamiltonian that contains Heisenberg exchange interaction, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and an applied Zeeman field. When expanding the spin operators in the Hamiltonian using Holstein-Primakoff (HP) transformation to the order of $S^{1/2}$, where $S$ is the magnitude of spin, the thermal Hall conductivity stays negative for all values of parameters such as the strength of Zeeman interaction and temperature. However, we demonstrate in this work that by including the next order, $S^{-1/2}$, in HP transformation to take into account magnon-magnon interaction, the Hartree type of interaction gives rise to topological phase transitions driven by temperature. When the temperature increases, we find that the gap of the magnonic energy spectrum closes at Dirac points at a critical temperature, $T_c$, and the gap-closing is indeed the signature for a topological phase transition as confirmed by showing that the Chern numbers are distinct above and below $T_c$. Finally, our analysis points out that thermal Hall conductivity exhibits sign reversal at the same temperature. This phenomenon can be used in experiments to verify the topological nature of magnons in honeycomb magnets.
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