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The Use of Arrest Records In Pre-Employment Screening In Franklin County, Ohio
Researchers reviewed the legality of employers using arrest records without convictions in pre-employment screenings; conducted surveys and focus groups to learn about pre-employment screening practices in Franklin County, OH; and studied arrest record data to determine whether black males in the region were more likely than others to be arrested and not subsequently convicted
Mott insulators and correlated superfluids in ultracold Bose-Fermi mixtures
We study the effects of interaction between bosons and fermions in a
Bose-Fermi mixtures loaded in an optical lattice. We concentrate on the
destruction of a bosonic Mott phase driven by repulsive interaction between
bosons and fermions. Once the Mott phase is destroyed, the system enters a
superfluid phase where the movements of bosons and fermions are correlated. We
show that this phase has simultaneously correlations reminiscent of a
conventional superfluid and of a pseudo-spin density wave order
Competition between Phase Separation and Spin Density Wave or Charge Density Wave Order: Role of Long-Range Interactions
Recent studies of pairing and charge order in materials such as FeSe,
SrTiO, and 2H-NbSe have suggested that momentum dependence of the
electron-phonon coupling plays an important role in their properties. Initial
attempts to study Hamiltonians which either do not include or else truncate the
range of Coulomb repulsion have noted that the resulting spatial non-locality
of the electron-phonon interaction leads to a dominant tendency to phase
separation. Here we present Quantum Monte Carlo results for such models in
which we incorporate both on-site and intersite electron-electron interactions.
We show that these can stabilize phases in which the density is homogeneous and
determine the associated phase boundaries. As a consequence, the physics of
momentum dependent electron-phonon coupling can be determined outside of the
trivial phase separated regime.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Supersolid phases in the one dimensional extended soft core Bosonic Hubbard model
We present results of Quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the soft core
extended bosonic Hubbard model in one dimension exhibiting the presence of
supersolid phases similar to those recently found in two dimensions. We find
that in one and two dimensions, the insulator-supersolid transition has dynamic
critical exponent z=2 whereas the first order insulator-superfluid transition
in two dimensions is replaced by a continuous transition with z=1 in one
dimension. We present evidence that this transition is in the
Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class and discuss the mechanism behind this
difference. The simultaneous presence of two types of quasi long range order
results in two soliton-like dips in the excitation spectrum.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Interacting spin-1 bosons in a two-dimensional optical lattice
We study, using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, the ground state
properties of spin-1 bosons trapped in a square optical lattice. The phase
diagram is characterized by the mobility of the particles (Mott insulating or
superfluid phase) and by their magnetic properties. For ferromagnetic on-site
interactions, the whole phase diagram is ferromagnetic and the Mott
insulators-superfluid phase transitions are second order. For antiferromagnetic
on-site interactions, spin nematic order is found in the odd Mott lobes and in
the superfluid phase. Furthermore, the superfluid-insulator phase transition is
first or second order depending on whether the density in the Mott is even or
odd. Inside the even Mott lobes, we observe a singlet-to-nematic transition for
certain values of the interactions. This transition appears to be first order
Superconducting Transitions in Flat Band Systems
The physics of strongly correlated quantum particles within a flat band was
originally explored as a route to itinerant ferromagnetism and, indeed, a
celebrated theorem by Lieb rigorously establishes that the ground state of the
repulsive Hubbard model on a bipartite lattice with unequal number of sites in
each sublattice must have nonzero spin S at half-filling. Recently, there has
been interest in Lieb geometries due to the possibility of novel topological
insulator, nematic, and Bose-Einstein condensed (BEC) phases. In this paper, we
extend the understanding of the attractive Hubbard model on the Lieb lattice by
using Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo to study real space charge and pair
correlation functions not addressed by the Lieb theorems
Two-photon Rabi-Hubbard and Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard models: photon pair superradiance, Mott insulator and normal phases
We study the ground state phase diagrams of two-photon Dicke, the
one-dimensional Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard (JCH), and Rabi-Hubbard (RH) models
using mean field, perturbation, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), and density matrix
renormalization group (DMRG) methods. We first compare mean field predictions
for the phase diagram of the Dicke model with exact QMC results and find
excellent agreement. The phase diagram of the JCH model is then shown to
exhibit a single Mott insulator lobe with two excitons per site, a superfluid
(SF, superradiant) phase and a large region of instability where the
Hamiltonian becomes unbounded. Unlike the one-photon model, there are no higher
Mott lobes. Also unlike the one-photon case, the SF phases above and below the
Mott are surprisingly different: Below the Mott, the SF is that of photon {\it
pairs} as opposed to above the Mott where it is SF of simple photons. The mean
field phase diagram of the RH model predicts a transition from a normal to a
superradiant phase but none is found with QMC.Comment: 14 pages, 14 figure
Thermal phase diagrams of columnar liquid crystals
In order to understand the possible sequence of transitions from the
disordered columnar phase to the helical phase in hexa(hexylthio)triphenylene
(HHTT), we study a three-dimensional planar model with octupolar interactions
inscribed on a triangular lattice of columns. We obtain thermal phase diagrams
using a mean-field approximation and Monte Carlo simulations. These two
approaches give similar results, namely, in the quasi one-dimensional regime,
as the temperature is lowered, the columns order with a linear polarization,
whereas helical phases develop at lower temperatures. The helicity patterns of
the helical phases are determined by the exact nature of the frustration in the
system, itself related to the octupolar nature of the molecules.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, ReVTe
Metallic phase in the two-dimensional ionic Hubbard model
We investigate the phases of the ionic Hubbard model in a two-dimensional
square lattice using determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC). At half-filling,
when the interaction strength or the staggered potential dominate we find Mott
and band insulators, respectively. When these two energies are of the same
order we find a metallic region. Charge and magnetic structure factors
demonstrate the presence of antiferromagnetism only in the Mott region,
although the externally imposed density modulation is present everywhere in the
phase diagram. Away from half-filling, other insulating phases are found.
Kinetic energy correlations do not give clear signals for the existence of a
bond-ordered phase
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