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Particle-Hole Symmetry Breaking and the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
We report on the study of the fractional quantum Hall effect at the filling
factor 5/2 using exact diagonalization method with torus geometry. The
particle-hole symmetry breaking effect is considered using an additional
three-body interaction. Both Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian states can be the
ground state depending on the sign of the three-body interaction. The results
of the low-energy spectrum, the wave function overlap, and the particle-hole
parity evolution, have shown the clear evidence of a direct sharp transition
(possibly first-order) from the Pfaffian to the anti-Pfaffian state at the
Coulomb point. A quantum phase diagram is established, where one finds further
transitions from the Pfaffian or anti-Pfaffian state to the nearby compressible
phases induced by a change of the pseudopotential.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Broken-Symmetry States of Dirac Fermions in Graphene with A Partially Filled High Landau Level
We report on numerical study of the Dirac fermions in partially filled N=3
Landau level (LL) in graphene. At half-filling, the equal-time density-density
correlation function displays sharp peaks at nonzero wavevectors . Finite-size scaling shows that the peak value grows with electron
number and diverges in the thermodynamic limit, which suggests an instability
toward a charge density wave. A symmetry broken stripe phase is formed at large
system size limit, which is robust against purturbation from disorder
scattering. Such a quantum phase is experimentally observable through transport
measurements. Associated with the special wavefunctions of the Dirac LL, both
stripe and bubble phases become possible candidates for the ground state of the
Dirac fermions in graphene with lower filling factors in the N=3 LL.Comment: Contains are slightly changed. Journal reference and DOI are adde
Effects of Collisional Decoherence on Multipartite Entanglement - How would entanglement not be relatively common?
We consider the collision model of Ziman {\em et al.} and study the
robustness of -qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ), W, and linear
cluster states. Our results show that -qubit entanglement of GHZ states
would be extremely fragile under collisional decoherence, and that of W states
could be more robust than of linear cluster states. We indicate that the
collision model of Ziman {\em et al.} could provide a physical mechanism to
some known results in this area of investigations. More importantly, we show
that it could give a clue as to how -partite distillable entanglement would
be relatively rare in our macroscopic classical world.Comment: 10 page
Exact renormalization in quantum spin chains
We introduce a real-space exact renormalization group method to find exactly
solvable quantum spin chains and their ground states. This method allows us to
provide a complete list for exact solutions within SU(2) symmetric quantum spin
chains with and nearest-neighbor interactions, as well as examples
with S=5. We obtain two classes of solutions: One of them converges to the
fixed points of renormalization group and the ground states are matrix product
states. Another one does not have renormalization fixed points and the ground
states are partially ferromagnetic states.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, references added, published versio
Tracing potential energy surfaces of electronic excitations via their transition origins: application to Oxirane
We show that the transition origins of electronic excitations identified by
quantified natural transition orbital (QNTO) analysis can be employed to
connect potential energy surfaces (PESs) according to their character across a
widerange of molecular geometries. This is achieved by locating the switching
of transition origins of adiabatic potential surfaces as the geometry changes.
The transition vectors for analysing transition origins are provided by linear
response time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations under
the Tamm-Dancoff approximation. We study the photochemical CO ring opening of
oxirane as an example and show that the results corroborate the traditional
Gomer-Noyes mechanism derived experimentally. The knowledge of specific states
for the reaction also agrees well with that given by previous theoretical work
using TDDFT surface-hopping dynamics that was validated by high-quality quantum
Monte Carlo calculations. We also show that QNTO can be useful for considerably
larger and more complex systems: by projecting the excitations to those of a
reference oxirane molecule, the approach is able to identify and analyse
specific excitations of a trans-2,3-diphenyloxirane molecule.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figure
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