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Variational study of the Holstein polaron
The paper deals with the ground and the first excited state of the polaron in
the one dimensional Holstein model. Various variational methods are used to
investigate both the weak coupling and strong coupling case, as well as the
crossover regime between them. Two of the methods, which are presented here for
the first time, introduce interesting elements to the understanding of the
nature of the polaron. Reliable numerical evidence is found that, in the strong
coupling regime, the ground and the first excited state of the self-trapped
polaron are well described within the adiabatic limit. The lattice vibration
modes associated with the self-trapped polarons are analyzed in detail, and the
frequency softening of the vibration mode at the central site of the small
polaron is estimated. It is shown that the first excited state of the system in
the strong coupling regime corresponds to the excitation of the soft phonon
mode within the polaron. In the crossover regime, the ground and the first
excited state of the system can be approximated by the anticrossing of the
self-trapped and the delocalized polaron state. In this way, the connection
between the behavior of the ground and the first excited state is qualitatively
explained.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, PRB 65, 14430
Ground state of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit coupling in a Zeeman field
We systematically investigate the weakly trapped spin-1 Bose-Einstein
condensates with spin-orbit coupling in an external Zeeman field. We find that
the mean-field ground state favors either a magnetized standing wave phase or
plane wave phase when the strength of Zeeman field is below a critical value
related to the strength of spin-orbit coupling. Zeeman field can induce the
phase transition between standing wave and plane wave phases, and we determine
the phase boundary analytically and numerically. The magnetization of these two
phases responds to the external magnetic field in a very unique manner, the
linear Zeeman effect magnetizes the standing wave phase along the direction of
the magnetic field, but the quadratic one demagnetizes the plane wave phase.
When the strength of Zeeman field surpasses the critical value, the system is
completely polarized to a ferromagnetic state or polar state with zero
momentum
Transfer-matrix renormalization group study of the spin ladders with cyclic four-spin interactions
The temperature dependence of the specific heat and spin susceptibility of
the spin ladders with cyclic four-spin interactions in the rung-singlet phase
is explored by making use of the transfer-matrix renormalization group method.
The values of spin gap are extracted from the specific heat and susceptibility,
respectively. It is found that for different relative strength between
interchain and intrachain interactions, the spin gap is approximately linear
with the cyclic four-spin interaction in the region far away from the critical
point. Furthermore, we show that the dispersion for the one-triplet magnon
branch can be obtained by numerically fitting on the partition function.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
Conductance plateau in quantum spin transport through an interacting quantum dot
Quantum spin transport is studied in an interacting quantum dot. It is found
that a conductance "plateau" emerges in the non-linear charge conductance by a
spin bias in the Kondo regime. The conductance plateau, as a complementary to
the Kondo peak, originates from the strong electron correlation and exchange
processes in the quantum dot, and can be regarded as one of the characteristics
in quantum spin transport.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Optical selection rules and phase-dependent adiabatic state control in a superconducting quantum circuit
We analyze the optical selection rules of the microwave-assisted transitions
in a flux qubit superconducting quantum circuit (SQC). We show that the
parities of the states relevant to the superconducting phase in the SQC are
well-defined when the external magnetic flux , then the
selection rules are same as the ones for the electric-dipole transitions in
usual atoms. When , the symmetry of the potential of
the artificial "atom'' is broken, a so-called -type "cyclic"
three-level atom is formed, where one- and two-photon processes can coexist. We
study how the population of these three states can be selectively transferred
by adiabatically controlling the electromagnetic field pulses. Different from
-type atoms, the adiabatic population transfer in our three-level
-atom can be controlled not only by the amplitudes but also by the
phases of the pulses
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