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RVB gauge theory and the Topological degeneracy in the Honeycomb Kitaev model
We relate the Z gauge theory formalism of the Kitaev model to the SU(2)
gauge theory of the resonating valence bond (RVB) physics. Further, we
reformulate a known Jordan-Wigner transformation of Kitaev model on a torus in
a general way that shows that it can be thought of as a Z gauge fixing
procedure. The conserved quantities simplify in terms of the gauge invariant
Jordan-Wigner fermions, enabling us to construct exact eigen states and
calculate physical quantities. We calculate the fermionic spectrum for flux
free sector for different gauge field configurations and show that the ground
state is four-fold degenerate on a torus in thermodynamic limit. Further on a
torus we construct four mutually anti-commuting operators which enable us to
prove that all eigenstates of this model are four fold degenerate in
thermodynamic limit.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Added affiliation and a new section,
'Acknowledgements'.Typos correcte
Photoinduced Floquet topological magnons in Kitaev magnets
We study periodically driven pure Kitaev model and ferromagnetic phase of the
Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice by off-resonant linearly and
circularly-polarized lights at zero magnetic field. Using a combination of
linear spin wave and Floquet theories, we show that the effective
time-independent Hamiltonians in the off-resonant regime map onto the
corresponding anisotropic static spin model, plus a tunable photoinduced
magnetic field along the direction, which precipitates Floquet
topological magnons and chiral magnon edge modes. They are tunable by the light
amplitude and polarization. Similarly, we show that the thermal Hall effect
induced by the Berry curvature of the Floquet topological magnons can also be
tuned by the laser field. Our results pave the way for ultrafast manipulation
of topological magnons in irradiated Kitaev magnets, and could play a pivotal
role in the investigation of ultrafast magnon spin current generation in Kitaev
materials.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures + Supplemental Materia
Structure and Dynamics of a Phase-Separating Active Colloidal Fluid
We examine a minimal model for an active colloidal fluid in the form of
self-propelled Brownian hard spheres that interact purely through excluded
volume. Despite the absence of an aligning interaction, this system shows the
signature behaviors of an active fluid, including anomalous number fluctuations
and phase separation behavior. Using simulations and analytic modeling, we
quantify the phase diagram and separation kinetics. The dense phase is a unique
material that we call an active hexatic, which exhibits the structural
signatures of a crystalline solid near the crystal-hexatic transition point,
but the rheological and transport properties associated with a viscoelastic
fluid.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Propagation of waves in elliptic ducts. A theoretical study
The cut-off frequencies for high order circumferential modes were calculated for various eccentricities of an elliptic duct section. The problem was studied with a view to the reduction of jet engine compressor noise by elliptic ducts, instead of circular ducts. The cut-off frequencies for even functions decrease with increasing eccentricity. The third order eigen frequencies are oscillatory as the eccentricity increases for odd functions. The eigen frequencies decrease for higher order odd functions inasmuch as, for higher orders, they assume the same values as those for even functions. Deformation of a circular pipe into an elliptic one of sufficiently large eccentricity produces only a small reduction in the cut-off frequency, provided the area of the pipe section is kept invariable
Hardware-software co-design of AES on FPGA
This paper presents a compact hardware-software co-design of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) on the field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) designed for low-cost embedded systems. The design uses MicroBlaze, a soft-core processor from Xilinx. The computationally intensive operations of the AES are implemented in hardware for better speed. The sub-byte calculation is designed with the help of the processor carrying out the calculations using hardware blocks implemented using FPGA. By incorporating the processor in the AES design, the total number of slices required to implement the AES algorithm on FPGA is proved to be reduced. The entire AES system design is validated using 460 slices in Spartan-3E XC3S500E, which is one of the low-cost FPGA
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