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Phys Rev Lett ; 124(25): 257201, 2020 Jun 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32639763

ABSTRACT

We have used neutron spectroscopy to investigate the spin dynamics of the quantum (S=1/2) antiferromagnetic Ising chains in RbCoCl_{3}. The structure and magnetic interactions in this material conspire to produce two magnetic phase transitions at low temperatures, presenting an ideal opportunity for thermal control of the chain environment. The high-resolution spectra we measure of two-domain-wall excitations therefore characterize precisely both the continuum response of isolated chains and the "Zeeman-ladder" bound states of chains in three different effective staggered fields in one and the same material. We apply an extended Matsubara formalism to obtain a quantitative description of the entire dataset, Monte Carlo simulations to interpret the magnetic order, and finite-temperature density-matrix renormalization-group calculations to fit the spectral features of all three phases.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 122(25): 250601, 2019 Jun 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31347875

ABSTRACT

We consider sudden quenches across quantum phase transitions in the S=1 XXZ model starting from the Haldane phase. We demonstrate that dynamical phase transitions may occur during these quenches that are identified by nonanalyticities in the rate function for the return probability. In addition, we show that the temporal behavior of the string order parameter is intimately related to the subsequent dynamical phase transitions. We furthermore find that the dynamical quantum phase transitions can be accompanied by enhanced two-site entanglement.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 115(19): 190402, 2015 Nov 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26588363

ABSTRACT

The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking in many-body systems, the wavelike nature of quantum particles and lattice effects produces an extraordinary behavior of the chiral current of bosonic particles in the presence of a uniform magnetic flux defined on a two-leg ladder. While noninteracting as well as strongly interacting particles, stirred by the magnetic field, circulate along the system's boundary in the counterclockwise direction in the ground state, interactions stabilize vortex lattices. These states break translational symmetry, which can lead to a reversal of the circulation direction. Our predictions could readily be accessed in quantum gas experiments with existing setups or in arrays of Josephson junctions.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 115(16): 165301, 2015 Oct 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26550881

ABSTRACT

We propose a scheme to measure the frequency-resolved local particle and hole spectra of any optical lattice-confined system of correlated ultracold atoms that offers single-site addressing and imaging, which is now an experimental reality. Combining perturbation theory and time-dependent density matrix renormalization group simulations, we quantitatively test and validate this approach of lattice-assisted spectroscopy on several one-dimensional example systems, such as the superfluid and Mott insulator, with and without a parabolic trap, and finally on edge states of the bosonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. We highlight extensions of our basic scheme to obtain an even wider variety of interesting and important frequency resolved spectra.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 113(7): 070601, 2014 Aug 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25170695

ABSTRACT

We show that a distinguishable mobile impurity inside a one-dimensional many-body state at zero temperature generally does not behave like a quasiparticle. Instead, both the impurity dynamics as well as the ground state of the bath are fundamentally transformed by a diverging number of zero-energy excitations being generated, leading to what we call infrared-dominated (ID) dynamics. Combining analytics and density matrix renormalization group numerics, we provide a general formula for the power law governing ID dynamics at zero momentum, discuss a threshold beyond which quasiparticle dynamics may occur again, and study the competition between the ID and quasiparticle universality classes at larger impurity momenta.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 111(13): 137205, 2013 Sep 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24116814

ABSTRACT

The space-and time-dependent response of many-body quantum systems is the most informative aspect of their emergent behavior. The dynamical structure factor, experimentally measurable using neutron scattering, can map this response in wave vector and energy with great detail, allowing theories to be quantitatively tested to high accuracy. Here, we present a comparison between neutron scattering measurements on the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet KCuF3, and recent state-of-the-art theoretical methods based on integrability and density matrix renormalization group simulations. The unprecedented quantitative agreement shows that precise descriptions of strongly correlated states at all distance, time, and temperature scales are now possible, and highlights the need to apply these novel techniques to other problems in low-dimensional magnetism.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 106(15): 155302, 2011 Apr 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21568570

ABSTRACT

We simulate numerically the dynamics of strongly correlated bosons in a two-leg ladder subject to a time-dependent energy bias between the two chains. When all atoms are initially in the leg with higher energy, we find a drastic reduction of the interchain particle transfer for slow linear sweeps, in quantitative agreement with recent experiments. This effect is preceded by a rapid broadening of the quasimomentum distribution of atoms, signaling the presence of a bath of low-energy excitations in the chains. We further investigate the scenario of quantum quenches to fixed values of the energy bias. We find that for a large enough density the momentum distribution relaxes to that of an equilibrium thermal state with the same energy.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 101(6): 063001, 2008 Aug 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18764451

ABSTRACT

We establish a setting-atoms in optical superlattices with period 2-in which one can experimentally probe signatures of the process of local relaxation and apparent thermalization in nonequilibrium dynamics without the need of addressing single sites. This opens up a way to explore the convergence of subsystems to maximum entropy states in quenched quantum many-body systems with present technology. Remarkably, the emergence of thermal states does not follow from a coupling to an environment but is a result of the complex nonequilibrium dynamics in closed systems. We explore ways of measuring the relevant signatures of thermalization in this analogue quantum simulation of a relaxation process, exploiting the possibilities offered by optical superlattices.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 100(10): 100601, 2008 Mar 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18352169

ABSTRACT

We discuss relaxation in bosonic and fermionic many-particle systems. For integrable systems, time evolution can cause a dephasing effect, leading for finite subsystems to steady states. We explicitly derive those steady subsystem states and devise sufficient prerequisites for the dephasing to occur. We also find simple scenarios, in which dephasing is ineffective and discuss the dependence on dimensionality and criticality. It follows further that, after a quench of system parameters, entanglement entropy will become extensive. This provides a way of creating strong entanglement in a controlled fashion.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 97(5): 050402, 2006 Aug 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17026081

ABSTRACT

We present a nonperturbative analysis of a new experimental technique for probing ultracold bosons in an optical lattice by periodic lattice depth modulations. This is done using the time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group method. We find that sharp energy absorption peaks are not unique to the Mott insulating phase at commensurate filling but also exist for superfluids at incommensurate filling. For strong interactions, the peak structure provides an experimental measure of the interaction strength. Moreover, the peak height of the peaks at Planck's omega > or approximately 2U can be employed as a measure of the incommensurability of the system.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 95(17): 176401, 2005 Oct 21.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16383841

ABSTRACT

Using the adaptive time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group method for the 1D Hubbard model, the splitting of local perturbations into separate wave packets carrying charge and spin is observed in real time. We show the robustness of this separation beyond the low-energy Luttinger liquid theory by studying the time evolution of single particle excitations and density wave packets. A striking signature of spin-charge separation is found in 1D cold Fermi gases in a harmonic trap at the boundary between liquid and Mott-insulating phases. We give quantitative estimates for an experimental observation of spin-charge separation in an array of atomic wires.

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Opt Express ; 12(1): 42-54, 2004 Jan 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19471510

ABSTRACT

We develop a variational wave function for the ground state of a one-dimensional bosonic lattice gas. The variational theory is initially developed for the quantum rotor model and later on extended to the Bose- Hubbard model. This theory is compared with quasi-exact numerical results obtained by Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) studies and with results from other analytical approximations. Our approach accurately gives local properties for strong and weak interactions, and it also describes the crossover from the superfluid phase to the Mott-insulator phase.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 90(18): 186401, 2003 May 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12786029

ABSTRACT

We provide, for the first time, in a doped strongly correlated system (two-leg ladder), a controlled theoretical demonstration of the existence of a state in which long-range ordered orbital currents are arranged in a staggered pattern, coexisting with a charge density wave. The method used is the highly accurate density-matrix renormalization group technique. This brings us closer to recent proposals that this order is realized in the enigmatic pseudogap phase of the cuprate high temperature superconductors.

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Phys Rev Lett ; 86(20): 4612-5, 2001 May 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11384296

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We solve the attractive Hubbard model for arbitrary interaction strengths within dynamical mean-field theory. We compute the transition temperature for superconductivity and analyze electron pairing in the normal phase. The normal state is a Fermi liquid at weak coupling and a non-Fermi-liquid state with a spin gap at strong coupling. Away from half filling, the quasiparticle weight vanishes discontinuously at the transition between the two normal states.

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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys ; 63(3 Pt 2): 036101, 2001 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11308703

ABSTRACT

The steady-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion model 2A-->3A, 2A-->0 is studied through the non-Hermitian density matrix renormalization group. In the absence of single-particle diffusion the model reduces to the pair-contact process, which has a phase transition in the universality class of directed percolation (DP) and an infinite number of absorbing steady states. When single-particle diffusion is added, the number of absorbing steady states is reduced to 2 and the model no longer shows DP critical behavior. The exponents theta=nu(parallel)/nu(perpendicular) and beta/nu(perpendicular) are calculated numerically. The value of beta/nu(perpendicular) is close to the value of the parity conserving universality class, in spite of the absence of local conservation laws.

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Phys Rev B Condens Matter ; 54(6): 4038-4051, 1996 Aug 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9986304
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