“quantum geometric nesting” and solvable model flat-band systems

Z Han, J Herzog-Arbeitman, BA Bernevig, SA Kivelson - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We introduce the concept of “quantum geometric nesting”(QGN) to characterize the
idealized ordering tendencies of certain flat-band systems implicit in the geometric structure …

Polynomial sign problem and topological Mott insulator in twisted bilayer graphene

X Zhang, G Pan, BB Chen, H Li, K Sun, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We show that for the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) away from the charge
neutrality point, although quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations suffer from the sign …

Dynamical properties of quantum many-body systems with long-range interactions

M Song, J Zhao, C Zhou, ZY Meng - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Employing large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically compute the
energy spectra of the two-dimensional (2D) spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with long-range …

Quantum criticality and entanglement for the two-dimensional long-range Heisenberg bilayer

M Song, J Zhao, Y Qi, J Rong, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The study of quantum criticality and entanglement in systems with long-range (LR)
interactions is still in its early stages, with many open questions remaining to be explored. In …

Superconductivity, charge density wave, and supersolidity in flat bands with a tunable quantum metric

JS Hofmann, E Berg, D Chowdhury - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Predicting the fate of an interacting system in the limit where the electronic bandwidth is
quenched is often highly nontrivial. The complex interplay between interactions and …

Many versus one: The disorder operator and entanglement entropy in fermionic quantum matter

W Jiang, BB Chen, ZH Liu, J Rong, FF Assaad… - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Motivated by recent development of the concept of the disorder operator and its relation with
entanglement entropy in bosonic systems, here we show the disorder operator successfully …

Many-body superconductivity in topological flat bands

J Herzog-Arbeitman, A Chew, KE Huhtinen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In a flat band superconductor, bosonic excitations can disperse while unpaired electrons are
immobile. To study this strongly interacting system, we construct a family of multi-band …

Thermodynamic characteristic for a correlated flat-band system with a quantum anomalous hall ground state

G Pan, X Zhang, H Lu, H Li, BB Chen, K Sun… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
While the ground-state phase diagram of the correlated flat-band systems has been
intensively investigated, the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of such lattice models …

Finite-temperature critical behaviors in 2D long-range quantum Heisenberg model

J Zhao, M Song, Y Qi, J Rong, ZY Meng - npj Quantum Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Mermin-Wagner theorem states that spontaneous continuous symmetry
breaking is prohibited in systems with short-range interactions at spatial dimension D≤ 2 …

Exciton proliferation and fate of the topological mott insulator in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice model

X Lin, BB Chen, W Li, ZY Meng, T Shi - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A topological Mott insulator (TMI) with spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking and
nonzero Chern number has been discovered in a real-space effective model for twisted …