Deconfined quantum critical points: a review

T Senthil - 50 Years of the Renormalization Group: Dedicated to …, 2024 - World Scientific
Continuous phase transitions in equilibrium statistical mechanics were successfully
described 50 years ago with the development of the renormalization group framework. This …

SO (5) Deconfined Phase Transition under the Fuzzy-Sphere Microscope: Approximate Conformal Symmetry, Pseudo-Criticality, and Operator Spectrum

Z Zhou, L Hu, W Zhu, YC He - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) is an example of phase transitions beyond
the Landau symmetry-breaking paradigm that attracts wide interest. However, its nature has …

Quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional superconductors: a review on recent experimental progress

Z Wang, Y Liu, C Ji, J Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconductor-insulator/metal transition (SIT/SMT) as a paradigm of quantum phase
transition has been a research highlight over the last three decades. Benefit from recent …

Charged skyrmions and topological origin of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

E Khalaf, S Chatterjee, N Bultinck, MP Zaletel… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Topological solitons, a class of stable nonlinear excitations, appear in diverse domains as in
the Skyrme model of nuclear forces. Here, we argue that similar excitations play an …

Topological field theory of time-reversal invariant insulators

XL Qi, TL Hughes, SC Zhang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
We show that the fundamental time-reversal invariant (TRI) insulator exists in 4+ 1
dimensions, where the effective-field theory is described by the (4+ 1)-dimensional Chern …

Observation of unconventional quantum spin textures in topological insulators

D Hsieh, Y **a, L Wray, D Qian, A Pal, JH Dil… - Science, 2009 - science.org
A topologically ordered material is characterized by a rare quantum organization of
electrons that evades the conventional spontaneously broken symmetry–based …

Superconductivity, correlated insulators, and Wess–Zumino–Witten terms in twisted bilayer graphene

M Christos, S Sachdev… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Recent experiments on twisted bilayer graphene have shown a high-temperature parent
state with massless Dirac fermions and broken electronic flavor symmetry; superconductivity …

Strong coupling theory of magic-angle graphene: A pedagogical introduction

PJ Ledwith, E Khalaf, A Vishwanath - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
We give a self contained review of a recently developed strong coupling theory of magic-
angle graphene. An advantage of this approach is that a single formulation can capture both …

Symmetry breaking and skyrmionic transport in twisted bilayer graphene

S Chatterjee, N Bultinck, MP Zaletel - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Motivated by recent low-temperature magnetoresistance measurements in twisted bilayer
graphene aligned with hexagonal boron nitride substrate, we perform a systematic study of …

Interaction-driven topological insulators on the kagome and the decorated honeycomb lattices

J Wen, A Rüegg, CCJ Wang, GA Fiete - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2010 - APS
We study the spinless and spinful extended Hubbard models with repulsive interactions on
the kagome and the decorated honeycomb (star) lattice. Using Hartree-Fock mean-field …