Two-dimensional kagome lattices made of hetero triangulenes are Dirac semimetals or single-band semiconductors

Y **g, T Heine - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
Here we discuss, based on first-principles calculations, two-dimensional (2D) kagome
lattices composed of polymerized heterotriangulene units, planar molecules with D3h point …

Counterflow superfluidity in a two-component Mott insulator

YG Zheng, A Luo, YC Shen, MG He, ZH Zhu, Y Liu… - Nature Physics, 2025 - nature.com
Counterflow superfluidity is an anomalous quantum phase that was predicted two decades
ago in the context of a two-component Bose–Hubbard model. In this phase, although both …

Preparation of the spin-Mott state: a spinful Mott insulator of repulsively bound pairs

J de Hond, J **ang, WC Chung, E Cruz-Colón… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We observe and study a special ground state of bosons with two spin states in an optical
lattice: the spin-Mott insulator, a state that consists of repulsively bound pairs that is …

Tunable single-ion anisotropy in spin-1 models realized with ultracold atoms

WC Chung, J de Hond, J **ang, E Cruz-Colón… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Mott insulator plateaus in optical lattices are a versatile platform to study spin physics. Using
sites occupied by two bosons with an internal degree of freedom, we realize a uniaxial …

Enhanced superexchange in a tilted Mott insulator

I Dimitrova, N Jepsen, A Buyskikh… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
In an optical lattice, entropy and mass transport by first-order tunneling are much faster than
spin transport via superexchange. Here we show that adding a constant force (tilt) …

Spin-dependent optical superlattice

B Yang, HN Dai, H Sun, A Reingruber, ZS Yuan… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We propose and implement a lattice scheme for coherently manipulating atomic spins.
Using a vector light shift and a superlattice structure, we demonstrate experimentally its …

Microscopic study on superexchange dynamics of composite spin-1 Bosons

A Luo, YG Zheng, WY Zhang, MG He, YC Shen… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report on an experimental simulation of the spin-1 Heisenberg model with composite
bosons in a one-dimensional chain based on the two-component Bose-Hubbard model …

Many-body spin rotation by adiabatic passage in spin-1/2 XXZ chains of ultracold atoms

I Dimitrova, S Flannigan, YK Lee, H Lin… - Quantum Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum many-body phases offer unique properties and emergent phenomena, making
them an active area of research. A promising approach for their experimental realization in …

Thermodynamics and magnetism in the two-dimensional to three-dimensional crossover of the Hubbard model

E Ibarra-García-Padilla, R Mukherjee, RG Hulet… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The realization of antiferromagnetic (AF) correlations in ultracold fermionic atoms on an
optical lattice is a significant achievement. Experiments have been carried out in one, two …

Borromean supercounterfluids at finite temperatures

A Golic, I Timoshuk, E Babaev, B Svistunov - Physical Review Research, 2025 - APS
While the properties of standard (single-component) superfluids are well understood,
principal differences arise in a special type of multicomponent systems—the so-called …