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Topological order in Mott insulators

Here in this commemorative issue for Phil Anderson, I reproduce parts of a joint unpublished paper that first got me thinking about topological order in Mott insulators. With Phil, we explored aspects of the momentum distribution function and the non-classical rotational inertia in the Bose Hubbard model close to the quantum phase transition. My interest on this question continued, and later in the article I take up the question of topological order in the Kitaev Mott insulator on the honeycomb lattice with bond-dependent interactions in a finite magnetic field. Kitaev obtained the exact solution for zero field that demonstrated an exotic Z 2 quantum spin liquid phase with topological order. In a finite magnetic field, we discovered a new intermediate U(1) gapless quantum spin liquid phase, sandwiched between the known gapped Kitaev spin liquid and a polarized phase, that harbors fractionalized neutral fermionic excitations, dubbed spinons, that remarkably form a Fermi surface in a Mott insulator.

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Hidden Killing fields, geometric symmetries and black hole mergers

Highlights: • Construction of geometric models with a variable degree of symmetry. • Formulation of Energy and Momentum Balance Laws. • Description of backreactions on spacetime geometries caused by dissipative effects. • Analytic description of accretion and/or merger processes in GR. • Exact model for the merger of two extremal Reissner–Nordström black holes. In the present work, using the recently introduced framework of local geometric deformations, special types of vector fields – so-called hidden Killing vector fields – are constructed, which solve the Killing equation not globally, but only locally, i.e. in local subregions of spacetime. Taking advantage of the fact that the vector fields coincide locally with Killing fields and therefore allow the consideration of integral laws that convert into exact physical conservation laws on local scales, balance laws in dynamical systems without global Killing symmetries are derived that mimic as closely as possible the conservation laws for energy and angular momentum of highly symmetric models. The utility of said balance laws is demonstrated by a concrete geometric example, namely a toy model for the binary merger of two extremal Reissner–Nordström black holes.

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Low-energy effective quantum field theoretic description of excitations about soliton configurations

Solitons are the classical field configurations connecting two trivial vacua. These are also the solutions of classical field equations of motion with particle-like properties. Moreover, they are localized in space, having finite energy, and are stable against decay into radiation. The coherent state description of kink-solitons is discussed in the present article. Further, the relation between topological solitons and occupation numbers corresponding to low momentum excitations are also discussed coherently. The description of the low energy excitations about solitons in quantum field theory is the main theme of this article. Further, a few physical observables, namely some low order correlation functions, are computed up to certain integral forms. Furthermore, we have shown that it is possible to detect the presence of soliton-like classical configurations in many-particle systems from the nature of the one-point function and non-conservation of momentum feature of one-point, two-point and three-point functions in this low-energy effective field theory of these excitations.

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Ground state properties of a spin-3/2 Fermi gas

Highlights: • A generalized spin-3/2 Fermi liquid is studied via diagram technique and Green’s function • The spin-mixing term strengthens ground state energy and effective mass Diagram technique is employed to study ground state properties of a generalized spin-3/2 Fermi gas which consists of more spin components and interacting channels than the spin-1/2 system. The interaction parameters are supposed to be spin-dependent, including a spin-mixing parameter which is absent in the spin-1/2 Fermi gas. The chemical potential, ground state energy and effective mass are calculated after elaborately dealing with the effective interaction and the self-energy. Contributions of each interaction term are derived within the second-order perturbation. It is found that the spin-mixing term always strengthens the ground state energy and effective mass.

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Restricting loop expansions in gauge theories coupled to matter

Highlights: • Lagrange multiplier fields are used to restrict radiative effects to one-loop order. • This approach is exemplified in the Yang-Mills theory coupled to a scalar matter field. • We showed that it can be used with the Einstein–Hilbert action coupled to matter. • The resulting quantum gravity theory is both renormalizable and unitary. Quantizing any model in which a Lagrange multiplier (LM) field is used to restrict field configurations to those that satisfy the classical equations of motion, leads to at most one-loop radiative corrections. This approach can be used with both the Yang–Mills (YM) and Einstein–Hilbert (EH) action; the resulting theory is both renormalizable and unitary, has a positive energy spectrum and has no negative norm states contributing to physical processes. Although this approach cannot be consistently used with scalar fields alone, scalar fields can be coupled to gauge fields so that loop effects in the gauge sector are restricted to one-loop order in a way that satisfies the usual criterion for a consistent quantum field theory. The tree-level diagrams are those of the classical theory in which the metric couples to the energy–momentum tensor.

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The repulsive Casimir-type forces in binary mixture of weakly interacting Bose–Einstein condensates gases

Highlights: • The equations of the state of a binary mixture weakly interacting Bose gases are established based on the Lagrangian of the system. • The formulae of the Casimir-type energy and the resulting Casimir-type force are produced from the quantum part of the grand canonical energy. • The results for the Casimir-type effect in the one-field case can be re-obtained by using the results of the two-field case. Within the framework of the quantum field theory (QFT) in the one-loop approximation, we investigate the Casimir-type effect in a mixture of two-component weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) gases confined between two parallel plates at zero temperature. The Casimir-type forces in the miscible state of BECs for different boundary conditions (BCs) are discovered and compared to each other. The repulsive nature of the Casimir-type force in BECs is defined for the first time. Our calculations are finished in both grand canonical ensemble (GCE) and canonical ensemble (CE).

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Quasinormal modes and shadow of a Schwarzschild black hole with GUP

Highlights: • The physics of quantum corrected Schwarzschild Black Hole via GUP is investigated. • Quasinormal Modes (QNM) are obtained via WKB and numeric methods. • The relationship between shadow and QNM in the eikonal limit is established. • The quadratic and linear GUP parameters affect the results in a clear way. We consider quantum corrections for the Schwarzschild black hole metric by using the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) to investigate quasinormal modes, shadow and their relationship in the eikonal limit. We calculate the quasinormal frequencies of the quantum-corrected Schwarzschild black hole by using the sixth-order Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) approximation, and also perform a numerical analysis that confirms the results obtained from this approach. We also find that the shadow radius is nonzero even at very small mass limit for finite GUP parameter.

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Non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum system with memory

Highlights: • Non-Markovian master equation for open quantum system with power-law memory is proposed. • Non-Markovian dynamics of two-level quantum system with memory is described. • Solutions of non-Markovian quantum master equations are derived. • Complete positivity and bi-positivity in non-Markovian quantum dynamics with memory are described. • Exact solution of non-Markovian equations of system with memory is proposed. In this paper, non-Markovian generalization of master equation for open quantum system is proposed. Non-Markovian dynamics of two-level quantum system with memory and interaction with environment is described. To describe this system, the Gorini–Kossakowski–Sudarshan equation for open quantum states is generalized by taking into account power-law fading memory. The non-Markovian quantum processes with power-law memory are described by using integration and differentiation of non-integer orders. Complete positivity and bi-positivity in non-Markovian quantum dynamics with memory are described. An example of two-level quantum systems with power-law memory is suggested. Exact solution of the non-Markovian master equations of two-level open quantum systems with memory is derived.

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Causality and dimensionality in geometric scattering

We report the scattering matrix which describes low-energy, non-relativistic scattering of spin-1/2 fermions interacting via finite-range potentials can be obtained from a geometric action principle in which space and time do not appear explicitly. In the case of zero-range forces, causality leads to constraints on scattering trajectories in the geometric picture. The effect of spatial dimensionality is also investigated by considering scattering in two and three dimensions. In the geometric formulation it is found that dimensionality is encoded in the phase of the harmonic potential that appears in the geometric action.

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Fluctuating relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics as a gauge theory

Here we argue that different formulations of hydrodynamics are related to uncertainties in the definitions of local thermodynamic and hydrodynamic variables. We show that this ambiguity can be resolved by viewing different formulations of hydrodynamics as particular “gauge choices” which lead to the same physical behavior of the system. Using the example of bulk viscosity, we show that Bemfica–Disconzi–Noronha–Kovtun (BDNK) and Israel–Stewart hydrodynamics are particular “gauge choices” of this type, related by a well-defined transformation of thermodynamic and hydrodynamic variables. We argue that this gauge ambiguity is necessary to ascertain the causality of stochastic hydrodynamic evolution and conjecture that it could explain the applicability of hydrodynamics outside its expected regime of validity since far from equilibrium and close to equilibrium may be related through transformations of this type.

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Angular momentum eigenstates of the isotropic 3-D harmonic oscillator: Phase-space distributions and coalescence probabilities

The isotropic 3-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential can serve as an approximate description of many systems in atomic, solid state, nuclear, and particle physics. In particular, the question of 2 particles binding (or coalescing) into angular momentum eigenstates in such a potential has interesting applications. Here we compute the probabilities for coalescence of two distinguishable, non-relativistic particles into such a bound state, where the initial particles are represented by generic wave packets of given average positions and momenta. We use a phase-space formulation and hence need the Wigner distribution functions of angular momentum eigenstates in isotropic 3-dimensional harmonic oscillators. These distribution functions have been discussed in the literature before but we utilize an alternative approach to obtain these functions. Along the way, we derive a general formula that expands angular momentum eigenstates in terms of products of 1-dimensional harmonic oscillator eigenstates.

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Universal location of Yang–Lee edge singularity for a one-component field theory in 1 ≤ d ≤ 4

Herein we determine the universal location of the Yang–Lee edge singularity in the entire relevant domain of spatial dimensions 1 ≤ d ≤ 4 for the Ising universality class. To that end, we present analytical results for d = 1,2,4 and near four dimensions. For d = 3 and a set of fractional dimensions, we perform numerical calculations using a systematic Functional Renormalization Group approach.

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Entanglement between valence and sea quarks in hadrons of 1+1 dimensional QCD

The conceptual interpretation of valence- and sea-quark separation, which is a key aspect of the parton model and of an intuitive picture of hadron structure, becomes obscured by quantum effects in QCD. This suggests that there may be measures of entanglement between quark degrees of freedom that are present in QCD, but absent in the intuitive picture with a clear valence-sea (VS) separation. In this paper, we define the first rigorous measure of VS entanglement in QCD in an attempt to bring conceptual clarity to this issue, and, potentially, to find a measure of the applicability of the parton model to QCD bound states. This VS entanglement vanishes in the large-N c limit, and it remains low when finite-N c states resemble their large-N c counterparts. We perform a numerical study of VS entanglement in 1 + 1 dimensional discrete light-cone quantized QCD, and in the process develop a method for building the color-singlet basis of 1 + 1d QCD that is manifestly complete and orthogonal by construction. We calculate this VS entanglement entropy for the first time and find that it is relatively low for the first few excited states of both mesons and baryons compared to all other states in the spectrum, with the VS entropy of ground state hadrons providing a minimum. We also see that for ground state mesons the entropy is well described in the 1/N c approximation. These results suggest that low energy hadrons may be the only QCD bound states for which the large-N c expansion, and perhaps the parton model, provide an accurate description. This work also provides the first evidence that the VS entanglement entropy of QCD in 3 + 1d, which would likely serve as an order parameter for the transition between quark and hadron degrees of freedom, may be perturbatively accessible through a large-N c expansion.

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Optical conductivity of multi-Weyl node semimetals due to electromagnetic and axial pseudogauge fields

Here, we compute the optical conductivity of a multi-Weyl semimetal in the presence of electromagnetic and axial fields. In the first part of the paper we use a U(1) gauge field to compute the current of a multi-Weyl semimetal. The current is used in the computation of the optical conductivity within the Kubo-Matsubara formalism. We consider a multi-Weyl semimetal with two nodal points in the z-direction. The multi-Weyl semimetal has a width D in the transverse direction which is smaller than the length L in the longitudinal direction. Due to the width D we replace the model by a sum of transverse modes in 1+1 dimensions. We then regularize the model in 1+1 dimensions. The nodal points are responsible for a constant axial field and a static anomalous Hall effect. In the second part we study the effect of dynamic axial fields. An elastic deformation couples to the two electronic chiralities, and represents the axial pseudogauge field $\vec{a}$ 5 . As a consequence, the system is excited by two kinds of field, the electromagnetic one and the axial srain field. For a Weyl system this is represented by the triangle diagram, which is responsible for the anomalous Hall effect. We can obtain the anomalous Hall effect also by a chiral transformation in 1+1 dimensions using regularization. The chiral transformation modifies the path integration measure and is the source of the induced anomalous Hall effect. The latter is controlled by a combination of strain waves and electromagnetic fields.

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