Shaping topological properties of the band structures in a shaken optical lattice

To realize band structures with non-trivial topological properties in an optical lattice is an exciting topic in current studies on ultra cold atoms. Here we point out that this lofty goal can be achieved by using a simple scheme of shaking an optical lattice, which is directly applicable in current experiments. The photon-assistant band hybridization leads to the production of an effective spin-orbit coupling, in which the band index represents the pseudospin. When this spin-orbit coupling has finite strengths along multiple directions, non-trivial topological structures emerge in the Brillouin zone, such as topological defects with a winding number 1 or 2 in a shaken square lattice. The shaken lattice also allows one to study the transition between two band structures with distinct topological properties.Comment: Discussions on differences between inseparable and separable lattices were added; A technical error in separable lattices was corrected; Conclusions and main results remain unchange

A two-leg Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with glide reflection symmetry

The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model lays the foundation of many important concepts in quantum topological matters. Since it tells one that topological states may be distinguished by abelian geometric phases, a question naturally arises as to what happens if one assembles two topologically distinct states. Here, we show that a spin-dependent double-well optical lattice allows one to couple two topologically distinct SSH chains in the bulk and realise a glided-two-leg SSH model that respects the glide reflection symmetry. Such model gives rise to intriguing quantum phenomena beyond the paradigm of a traditional SSH model. It is characterised by Wilson line that requires non-abelian Berry connections, and the interplay between the glide symmetry and interaction automatically leads to charge fractionalisation without jointing two lattice potentials at an interface. Our work demonstrates the power of ultracold atoms to create new theoretical models for studying topological matters.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figure

One-way quantum deficit for 2⊗d2\otimes d systems

We investigate one-way quantum deficit for $2\otimes d$ systems. Analytical expressions of one-way quantum deficit under both von Neumann measurement and weak measurement are presented. As an illustration, qubit-qutrit systems are studied in detail. It is shown that there exists non-zero one-way quantum deficit even quantum entanglement vanishes. Moreover, one-way quantum deficit via weak measurement turns out to be weaker than that via von Neumann measurement. The dynamics of entanglement and one-way quantum deficit under dephasing channels is also investigated.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure

Moment estimates and applications for SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motion with irregular drifts

In this paper, high-order moment, even exponential moment, estimates are established for the H\"older norm of solutions to stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion whose drifts are measurable and have linear growth. As applications, we first study the weak uniqueness of solutions to fractional stochastic differential equations. Moreover, combining our estimates and the Fourier transform, we establish the existence of density of solutions to equations with irregular drifts.Comment: 25 page

Trailing Waves

We report a special phenomenon: trailing waves. They are generated by the propagation of elastic waves in plates at large frequency-thickness (fd) product. Unlike lamb waves and bulk waves, trailing waves are a list of non-dispersive pulses with constant time delay between each other. Based on Raleigh-Lamb equation, we give the analytical solution of trailing waves under a simple assumption. The analytical solution explains the formation of not only trailing waves but also bulk waves. It helps us better understand elastic waves in plates. We finally discuss the great potential of trailing waves for nondestructive testing.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

A note on one-way quantum deficit and quantum discord

One-way quantum deficit and quantum discord are two important measures of quantum correlations. We revisit the relationship between them in two-qubit systems. We investigate the conditions that both one-way quantum deficit and quantum discord have the same optimal measurement ensembles, and demonstrate that one-way quantum deficit can be derived from the quantum discord for a class of X states. Moreover, we give an explicit relation between one-way quantum deficit and entanglement of formation. We show that under phase damping channel both one-way quantum deficit and quantum discord evolve exactly in the same way for four parameters X states. Some examples are presented in details.Comment: 12 page

On the equivalence between SOR-type methods for linear systems and discrete gradient methods for gradient systems

The iterative nature of many discretisation methods for continuous dynamical systems has led to the study of the connections between iterative numerical methods in numerical linear algebra and continuous dynamical systems. Certain researchers have used the explicit Euler method to understand this connection, but this method has its limitation. In this study, we present a new connection between successive over-relaxation (SOR)-type methods and gradient systems; this connection is based on discrete gradient methods. The focus of the discussion is the equivalence between SOR-type methods and discrete gradient methods applied to gradient systems. The discussion leads to new interpretations for SOR-type methods. For example, we found a new way to derive these methods; these methods monotonically decrease a certain quadratic function and obtain a new interpretation of the relaxation parameter. We also obtained a new discrete gradient while studying the new connection

Contact matrix in dilute quantum systems

Contact has been well established as an important quantity to govern dilute quantum systems, in which the pairwise correlation at short distance traces a broad range of thermodynamic properties. So far, studies have been focusing on contact in individual angular momentum channels. Here, we point out that, to have a complete description of the pairwise correlation in a general dilute quantum systems, contact should be defined as a matrix. Whereas the diagonal terms of such matrix include contact of all partial wave scatterings, the off-diagonal terms, which elude previous studies in the literature, characterise the coherence of the asymptotic pairwise wavefunction in the angular momentum space and determine important thermodynamic quantities including the momentum distribution. Contact matrix allows physicists to access unexplored connections between short-range correlations and macroscopic quantum phenomena. As an example, we show the direct connection between contact matrix and order parameters of a superfluid with mixed partial waves.Comment: typos corrected, relevant references adde

Adaptive SOR methods based on the Wolfe conditions

Because the expense of estimating the optimal value of the relaxation parameter in the successive over-relaxation (SOR) method is usually prohibitive, the parameter is often adaptively controlled. In this paper, new adaptive SOR methods are presented that are applicable to a variety of symmetric positive definite linear systems and do not require additional matrix-vector products when updating the parameter. To this end, we regard the SOR method as an algorithm for minimising a certain objective function, which yields an interpretation of the relaxation parameter as the step size following a certain change of variables. This interpretation enables us to adaptively control the step size based on some line search techniques, such as the Wolfe conditions. Numerical examples demonstrate the favourable behaviour of the proposed methods

Chiral d-wave superfluid in periodically driven lattices

Chiral d-wave superfluid is a preliminary example of topological matters that intrinsically encodes interaction effects. It exhibits fascinating properties including a finite Chern number in the bulk and topologically protected edge states, which have been invoking physicists for decades. However, unlike s-wave superfluids prevalent in nature, its existence requires a strong interaction in the d-wave channel, a criterion that is difficult to access in ordinary systems. So far, such an unconventional superfluid has not been discovered in experiments. Here, we present a new principle for creating a two-dimensional chiral d-wave superfluid using periodically driven lattices. Due to an imprinted two-dimensional pseudospin-orbit coupling, where the sublattice index serves as the pseudospin, s-wave interaction between two hyperfine spin states naturally creates a chiral d-wave superfluid. This scheme also allows physicists to study the phase transition between the topologically distinct s- and d-wave superfluids by controlling the driving field or the particle density.Comment: 10pages, 7figure