Anyons are particles with fractional statistics that exhibit a nontrivial change in the wavefunction under an exchange of particles. Anyons can be considered to be a general category of particles that interpolate between fermions and bosons. We determined the position of the critical points of the one-dimensional anyon-Hubbard model, which was mapped to a modified Bose-Hubbard model where the tunneling depends on the local density and the interchange angle. We studied the latter model by using the density matrix renormalization group method and observed that gapped (Mott insulator) and gapless (superfluid) phases characterized the phase diagram, regardless of the value of the statistical angle. The phase diagram for higher densities was calculated and showed that the Mott lobes increase (decrease) as a function of the statistical angle (global density). The position of the critical point separating the gapped and gapless phases was found using quantum information tools, namely the block von Neumann entropy. We also studied the evolution of the critical point with the global density and the statistical angle and showed that the anyon-Hubbard model with a statistical angle $θ=π/4$ is in the same universality class as the Bose-Hubbard model with two body interactions.
Raman-assisted hopping may be used to realize the anyon Hubbard model in one-dimensional optical lattices. We propose a feasible scenario that significantly improves the proposal of [T. Keilmann et al., Nature Commun. 2, 361 (2011)], allowing as well for an exact realization of the two-body hard-core constraint, and for controllable effective interactions without the need of Feshbach resonances. We show that the combination of anyonic statistics and two-body hard-core constraint leads to a rich ground state physics, including Mott insulators with attractive interactions, pair superfluids, dime…
We study the (pseudo-) anyon Hubbard model on a one-dimensional lattice without the presence of a three-body hardcore constraint. In particular, for the pseudo-fermion limit of a large statistical angle $θ\approxπ$, we observe a wealth of exotic properties including {a first order transition} between different superfluid phases and a {two-component} partially paired phase for large fillings without need of an additional three-body hardcore constraint.In this limit, we analyze the effect of an induced hardcore constraint, which leads to the stabilization of superfluid {ground states} for vanish…
We show that a multicolor modulation of the depth of an optical lattice allows for a flexible independent control of correlated hopping, occupation-dependent gauge fields, effective on-site interactions without Feshbach resonances, and nearest-neighbor interactions. As a result, the lattice-depth modulation opens the possibility of engineering with minimal experimental complexity a broad class of lattice models in current experiments with ultra-cold atoms, including Hubbard models with correlated hopping, peculiar extended models, and two-component anyon-Hubbard models.
A quantum phase transition driven by the statistics was observed in an anyon-Hubbard model with local three-body interactions. Using a fractional Jordan-Wigner transformation, we arrived at a modified Bose-Hubbard model, which exhibits Mott insulator and superfluid phases. The absence of a Mott insulator state with one particle per site depends on the anyonic angle, and a quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator state is obtained for a fixed value of the hopping. The critical points were estimated with the von Neumann block entropy and increase as the hopping grows. The s…
Symmetry and integrability in the anyon-Hubbard model
Universität Hamburg（汉堡大学）；American University（美国大学）；University of Hamburg（汉堡大学）；The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg（汉堡大学超快成像中心）
Many-body localization (MBL) has been widely investigated for both fermions and bosons, it is, however, much less explored for anyons. Here we numerically calculate several physical characteristics related to MBL of a one-dimensional disordered anyon-Hubbard model in both localized and delocalized regions. We figure out a logarithmically slow growth of the half-chain entanglement entropy and an area-law rather than volume-law obedience for the highly excited eigenstates in the MBL phase. The adjacent energy level gap-ratio parameter is calculated and is found to exhibit a Poisson-like probabil…
To explore the static properties of the one-dimensional anyon-Hubbard model for a mean density of one particle per site, we apply perturbation theory with respect to the ratio between kinetic energy and interaction energy in the Mott insulating phase. The strong-coupling results for the ground-state energy, the single-particle excitation energies, and the momentum distribution functions up to 6th order in hopping are benchmarked against the numerically exact (infinite) density-matrix renormalization group technique. Since these analytic expressions are valid for any fractional phase $θ$ of any…
Using the Anyon-Hubbard Hamiltonian, we analyze the ground-state properties of anyons in a one-dimensional lattice. To this end we map the hopping dynamics of correlated anyons to an occupation-dependent hopping Bose-Hubbard model using the fractional Jordan-Wigner transformation. In particular, we calculate the quasi-momentum distribution of anyons, which interpolates between Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Analytically, we apply a modified Gutzwiller mean-field approach, which goes beyond a classical one by including the influence of the fractional phase of anyons within the many-b…
We demonstrate numerically the existence of a nontrivial topological Haldane phase for the one-dimensional extended ($U$-$V$) Hubbard model with a mean density of one particle per site, not only for bosons but also for anyons, despite a broken reflection parity symmetry. The Haldane insulator, surrounded by superfluid, Mott insulator and density-wave phases in the $V$-$U$ parameter plane, is protected by combined (modified) spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetries, which is verified within our matrix-product-state based infinite density-matrix renormalization group scheme by analyzing ge…
By using the density matrix renormalization group and mean field methods, the anyon Hubbard model is studied systematically on a one dimensional lattice. The model can be expressed as a Bose-Hubbard model with a density-dependent-phase term. When the phase angle is $θ=0$ or $θ=π$, the model will be equivalent to boson and pseudo fermion models, respectively. In the mean field frame, we find a broken-symmetry superfluid (BSF), in which the $b^{\dagger}(b)$ operators on the nearest neighborhood sites have exactly opposite directions and behave like a directed oscillation pattern. By the density …
Technische Universität Berlin（柏林工业大学）；JILA, NIST, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado（科罗拉多大学JILA、NIST和物理系）；Department of Physics, Harvard University（哈佛大学物理系）；Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover（汉诺威莱布尼茨大学理论物理研究所）；Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-Université PSL, Sorbonne Université（巴黎高等师范学院-索邦大学-法兰西学院-国家科学研究中心卡斯勒布罗塞尔实验室）
The subject of bianyon interference with ultracold atoms is introduced through theoretical investigations pertaining to the second-order momentum correlation maps of two anyons (built upon spinless and spin-1/2 bosonic, as well as spin-1/2 fermionic ultracold atoms) trapped in a double-well optical trap. The two-particle system is modeled according to the recently proposed protocols for emulating an anyonic Hubbard Hamiltonian in ultracold-atom one-dimensional lattices. Because the second-order momentum correlations are mirrored in the time-of-flight second-order interference patterns in space…
Revealing Pseudo-Fermionization and Chiral Binding of One-Dimensional Anyons using Adiabatic State Preparation
Department of Physics, Harvard University（哈佛大学物理系）；Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-Université PSL, Sorbonne Université（卡斯勒·布罗塞尔实验室，法兰西公学院，法国国家科学研究中心，巴黎文理研究大学，索邦大学）；JILA, NIST and Department of Physics, University of Colorado（JILA，美国国家标准与技术研究院和科罗拉多大学物理系）；Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Technische Universität Berlin（柏林工业大学物理与天文学研究所）；Naquidis Center, Institut d’Optique Graduate School（Naquidis中心，高等光学学院）
Three-dimensional (3D) strongly correlated many-body systems, especially their dynamics across quantum phase transitions, are prohibitively difficult to be numerically simulated. We experimentally demonstrate that such complex many-body dynamics can be efficiently studied in a 3D spinor Bose-Hubbard model quantum simulator, consisting of antiferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates confined in cubic optical lattices. We find novel dynamics and scaling effects beyond the scope of existing theories at superfluid-insulator quantum phase transitions and highlight spin populations as a new ob…
Generalized Effective Spin-Chain formalism for multicomponent anyons in one-dimensional optical lattices
Rice University（莱斯大学）；The University of Oklahoma（俄克拉荷马大学）；Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院精密测量科学与技术创新研究院）；Research School of Physics, Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学物理研究学院）
We study the attractive Bose-Hubbard model with a tunable, on-site three-body constraint. It is shown that the critical behavior of the system undergoing a phase transition from pair-superfluid to superfluid at unit filling depends on the value of the three-body repulsion. In particular, we calculate critical exponents and the central charge governing the quantum phase transition.
We demonstrate that identical impurities immersed in a two-dimensional many-particle bath can be viewed as flux-tube-charged-particle composites described by fractional statistics. In particular, we find that the bath manifests itself as an external magnetic flux tube with respect to the impurities, and hence the time-reversal symmetry is broken for the effective Hamiltonian describing the impurities. The emerging flux tube acts as a statistical gauge field after a certain critical coupling. This critical coupling corresponds to the intersection point between the quasiparticle state and the ph…
Recently precise results for the boundary between the Mott insulator phase and the superfluid phase of the homogeneous Bose-Hubbard model have become available for arbitrary integer filling factor g and any lattice dimension d > 1. We use these data for demonstrating that the critical hopping parameters obey a scaling relationship which allows one to map results for different g onto each other. Unexpectedly, the mean-field result captures the dependence of the exact critical parameters on the filling factor almost fully. We also present an approximation formula which describes the critical par…
We develop a strategy for calculating critical exponents for the Mott insulator-to-superfluid transition shown by the Bose-Hubbard model. Our approach is based on the field-theoretic concept of the effective potential, which provides a natural extension of the Landau theory of phase transitions to quantum critical phenomena. The coefficients of the Landau expansion of that effective potential are obtained by high-order perturbation theory. We counteract the divergency of the weak-coupling perturbation series by including the seldom considered Landau coefficient $a_6$ into our analysis. Our pre…
We show that the critical point of the two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model can be easily found through studies of either on-site atom number fluctuations or the nearest-neighbor two-point correlation function (the expectation value of the tunnelling operator). Our strategy to locate the critical point is based on the observation that the derivatives of these observables with respect to the parameter that drives the superfluid-Mott insulator transition are singular at the critical point in the thermodynamic limit. Performing the quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard…
The combination of topology and quantum criticality can give rise to an exotic mix of counterintuitive effects. Here, we show that unexpected topological properties take place in a paradigmatic strongly-correlated Hamiltonian: the 1D extended Bose-Hubbard model. In particular, we reveal the presence of two distinct topological quantum critical points with localized edge states and gapless bulk excitations. Our results show that the topological critical points separate two phases, one topologically protected and the other topologically trivial, both characterized by a long-range ordered string …
Spin-charge separation in the triangular-lattice Hofstadter-Hubbard model
School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University（北京大学智能科学学院）；Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学物理与天文系）；Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院物理研究所）
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University（石溪大学西蒙几何与物理中心）；Center for Theoretical Physics – a Leinweber Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院莱因韦伯理论物理中心）；INFN, Sezione di Torino（都灵意大利国家核物理研究所）；Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern（伯尔尼大学理论物理研究所爱因斯坦基础物理中心）；School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学物理与天文学学院）
Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) uses critical scaling to predict density of topological defects and other excitations created in second order phase transitions. We point out that simply inserting asymptotic critical exponents deduced from the immediate vicinity of the critical point to obtain KZM predictions can lead to results that are inconsistent with a more careful KZM-like analysis based on causality -- on the comparison of the relaxation time of the order parameter with the time "distance" from the critical point. As a result, scaling of quench-generated excitations with quench rates can ex…
The extended Bose-Hubbard model captures the essential properties of a wide variety of physical systems including ultracold atoms and molecules in optical lattices, Josephson junction arrays, and certain narrow band superconductors. It exhibits a rich phase diagram including a supersolid phase where a lattice solid coexists with a superfluid. We use quantum Monte Carlo to study the supersolid part of the phase diagram of the extended Bose-Hubbard model on the simple cubic lattice. We add disorder to the extended Bose-Hubbard model and find that the maximum critical temperature for the supersol…
Even though the Hubbard model is one of the most fundamental models of highly correlated electrons, analytical and numerical data describing its thermodynamics at nonzero magnetization are relatively scarce. We present a detailed investigation of the thermodynamic properties for the one dimensional repulsive Hubbard model in the presence of an arbitrary magnetic field for all values of the filling fraction and temperatures as low as $T \sim 0.005\, t.$ Our analysis is based on the system of integral equations derived in the quantum transfer matrix framework. We determine the critical exponents…
We discuss how positions of critical points of the three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model can be accurately obtained from variance of the on-site atom number operator, which can be experimentally measured. The idea that we explore is that the derivative of the variance, with respect to the parameter driving the transition, has a pronounced maximum close to critical points. We show that Quantum Monte Carlo studies of this maximum lead to precise determination of critical points for the superfluid-Mott insulator transition in systems with mean number of atoms per lattice site equal to one, two, an…
The Properties of the Mott insulator to superfluid phase transition are obtained through the fermionic approximation in the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model on linear, square, SC, FCC, and BCC Bravais lattices. For varying excitation number and atom-cavity frequency detuning. We find that the Mott lobes and the critical hopping are not scalable only for the FCC lattice. At the large excitation number regime, the critical hopping is scalable for all the lattices and it does not depend on the detuning.
