Devil's staircases without particle-hole symmetry

Lan, Zhihao, Lesanovsky, Igor and Li, Weibin (2018) Devil's staircases without particle-hole symmetry. Physical Review B, 97 . 075117. ISSN 2469-9969

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Abstract

We present and analyze spin models with long-range interactions whose ground state features a so-called devil’s staircase and where plateaus of the staircase are accessed by varying two-body interactions. This is in contrast to the canonical devil’s staircase, for example occurring in the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions, where typically a single-body chemical potential is varied to scan through the plateaus. These systems, moreover, typically feature a particle-hole symmetry which trivially connects the hole part of the staircase (filling fraction f ≥ 1/2) to its particle part (f ≤ 1/2). Such symmetry is absent in our models and hence the particle sector and the hole sector can be separately controlled, resulting in exotic hybrid staircases.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/911095
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.075117
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 01 Feb 2018 10:49
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:31
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/49479

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