Abstract

Ultracold atom experiments allow the study of topological insulators, such as the non-interacting Haldane model. In this work we study a generalization of the Haldane model with spin–spin on-site interactions that can be implemented on such experiments. We focus on measuring the winding number, a topological invariant, of the ground state, which we compute using a mean-field calculation that effectively captures long-range correlations and a matrix product state computation in a lattice with 64 sites. Our main result is that we show how the topological phases present in the non-interacting model survive until the interactions are comparable to the kinetic energy. We also demonstrate the accuracy of our mean-field approach in efficiently capturing long-range correlations. Based on state-of-the-art ultracold atom experiments, we propose an implementation of our model that can give information about the topological phases.

Highlights

  • Ultracold atoms trapped in optical lattices allow the simulation of rich physical models that cannot be recreated in solid state materials [1, 2]

  • In this work we study the topological phases of the Haldane model with spin 1/2 fermions for a broad range of on-site interactions using two methods: (i) a mean-field approach in momentum space that effectively takes into account long-range correlations and (ii) a matrix product state (MPS) ansatz in a 2D lattice [29, 30] with 2 × 32 sites

  • In this work we have studied the topological phase diagram of a topological insulator (TI) with spin–spin on-site interactions

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Summary

A Rubio-García1 and J J García-Ripoll2

Ultracold atom experiments allow the study of topological insulators, such as the non-interacting licence. In this work we study a generalization of the Haldane model with spin–spin on-site. Any further distribution of this work must maintain interactions that can be implemented on such experiments. We focus on measuring the winding attribution to the number, a topological invariant, of the ground state, which we compute using a mean-field calculation author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation that effectively captures long-range correlations and a matrix product state computation in a lattice and DOI. We demonstrate the accuracy of our mean-field approach in efficiently capturing long-range correlations. Based on state-of-the-art ultracold atom experiments, we propose an implementation of our model that can give information about the topological phases

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A Rubio-García and J J García-Ripoll
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