Why are insulators insulating and metals conducting?

R Resta - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
At variance with what happens in metals, the electronic charge in insulators cannot flow
freely under an applied dc field, and undergoes instead static polarization. These two …

Quantum critical points and the sign problem

R Mondaini, S Tarat, RT Scalettar - Science, 2022 - science.org
The “sign problem”(SP) is a fundamental limitation to simulations of strongly correlated
matter. It is often argued that the SP is not intrinsic to the physics of particular Hamiltonians …

Tricritical behavior in the extended Hubbard chains

M Nakamura - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
Phase diagrams of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model (including nearest-
neighbor interaction V) at half-and quarter-filling are studied by observing level crossings of …

One-dimensional flat bands in twisted bilayer germanium selenide

DM Kennes, L ** in an interacting two-component fermionic Rice-Mele Hubbard model
E Bertok, F Heidrich-Meisner, AA Aligia - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
A Thouless pump transports an integer amount of charge when pum** adiabatically
around a singularity. We study the splitting of such a critical point into two separate critical …

Topological phase transitions in the repulsively interacting Haldane-Hubbard model

TI Vanhala, T Siro, L Liang, M Troyer, A Harju… - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Using dynamical mean-field theory and exact diagonalization we study the phase diagram
of the repulsive Haldane-Hubbard model, varying the interaction strength and the sublattice …

Two-site entropy and quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional models

Ö Legeza, J Sólyom - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We propose a new approach to study quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional lattice
models. It is based on studying the von Neumann entropy of two neighboring central sites in …

Can correlations drive a band insulator metallic?

A Garg, HR Krishnamurthy, M Randeria - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We analyze the effects of the on-site Coulomb repulsion U on a band insulator using
dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). We find the surprising result that the gap is suppressed …

Quantum critical behavior of the one-dimensional ionic Hubbard model

SR Manmana, V Meden, RM Noack… - Physical Review B …, 2004 - APS
We study the zero-temperature phase diagram of the half-filled one-dimensional ionic
Hubbard model. This model is governed by the interplay of the on-site Coulomb repulsion …

Cold-atom quantum simulator for string and hadron dynamics in non-Abelian lattice gauge theory

R Dasgupta, I Raychowdhury - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We propose an analog quantum simulator for simulating real-time dynamics of (1+ 1)-
dimensional non-Abelian gauge theory well within the existing capacity of ultracold-atom …