Hidden states of matter with novel and unusual properties may be created if a system out of equilibrium can be induced to follow a trajectory to a state which is inaccessible or does not even exist under normal equilibrium conditions. Here we report on the discovery of a hidden (H) topologically protected electronic state in a layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2 crystal reached as a result of a quench caused by a single 35 fs laser pulse. The properties of the H state are markedly different from any other state of the system: it exhibits a large drop of electrical resistance, strongly modified single particle and collective mode spectra and a marked change of optical reflectivity. Particularly important and unusual, the H state is stable for an arbitrarily long time until a laser pulse, electrical current or thermal erase procedure is applied, causing it to revert to the thermodynamic ground state. Major observed events can be reproduced by a kinetic model describing the conversion of photo excited electrons and holes into an electronically ordered crystal, thus converting a Mott insulator to a conducting H state. Its long-time stability follows from the topological protection of the number of periods in the electronic crystal.
Topologically Protected Surface Altermagnetism on Antiferromagnets
University of Zürich(苏黎世大学);Donostia International Physics Center(圣塞巴斯蒂安国际物理中心);Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institut Néel(格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学、法国国家科学研究中心、格勒诺布尔理工学院、内埃尔研究所);IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science(伊克尔巴斯基克,巴斯克科学基金会)
虫洞的观测在天体物理学领域已经被证明是困难的。然而,随着新型拓扑量子材料的发现,在凝聚态物理中观察天体物理和粒子物理效应成为可能。在这项工作中,提出虫洞可以存在于III型外尔相。此外,这些虫洞在拓扑上受到保护,使得它们在凝聚态系统中的创建和测量变得可行。最后,确定了Co $_3$ In $_2$ X $_2$(X = S,Se)为理想的Ⅲ型Weyl半金属,并提出了实验来证实Ⅲ型Weyl相的存在。
Symmetry-protected topologically ordered states for universal quantum computation
基于测量的量子计算是一种量子信息处理模型,它利用对适当纠缠的资源态的局部测量来实现量子门。对普遍资源状态的完整描述仍然缺失。在基于测量的量子计算中,一维保序拓扑可以用来保护某些量子门。本文证明了任意格点上的二维元格态在对称性分数化下具有非平凡的保序拓扑,是量子计算的通用资源态。我们关于任意二维格上的非平凡保序拓扑序的结果是基于Chen,Gu,Liu和Wen [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{87},155114(2013)]在正方形格上的最近构造的扩展。
Topologically protected measurement-based quantum computation on the thermal state of a nearest-neighbor two-body Hamiltonian with spin-3/2 particles
最近,李{ \it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. { \bf 107},060501(2011)]已经证明,只要温度小于临界值,即阈值温度,就可以在具有自旋2和自旋3/2粒子的最近邻两体哈密顿量的热状态上实现拓扑保护的基于测量的量子计算。在这里,我们表明,热状态的最近邻两体哈密顿量,其中只包括自旋3/2粒子,使我们能够进行拓扑保护的测量为基础的量子计算。阈值温度的计算结果表明,与自旋-2和自旋-3/2系统的阈值温度相当。此外,我们一般表明,一个高连通性的集群状态可以有效地产生从自旋3/2系统的热态没有严重的热噪声积累。
STM imaging of electronic waves on the surface of Bi$_2$Te$_3$: topologically protected surface states and hexagonal warping effects
高品质的Bi $_2$ Te $_3$晶体的扫描隧道光谱研究表现出完美的对应关系的ARPES数据,从而使识别不同的制度测量的局域态密度(LDOS)。分析了LDOS在阶跃附近的振荡现象。在表面带振荡的主要部分强烈阻尼,支持拓扑保护的假设。在更高的能量,作为表面带成为凹,振荡出现分散与一个特定的波矢量,可能导致从一个非常规的六边形翘曲项。