TY - JOUR AB - We compare recent experimental results [Science 375, 528 (2022)] of the superfluid unitary Fermi gas near the critical temperature with a thermodynamic model based on the elementary excitations of the system. We find good agreement between experimental data and our theory for several quantities such as first sound, second sound, and superfluid fraction. We also show that mode mixing between first and second sound occurs. Finally, we characterize the response amplitude to a density perturbation: Close to the critical temperature both first and second sound can be excited through a density perturbation, whereas at lower temperatures only the first sound mode exhibits a significant response. AU - Bighin, Giacomo AU - Cappellaro, Alberto AU - Salasnich, L. ID - 11592 IS - 6 JF - Physical Review A SN - 2469-9926 TI - Unitary Fermi superfluid near the critical temperature: Thermodynamics and sound modes from elementary excitations VL - 105 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Recently it became possible to study highly excited rotational states of molecules in superfluid helium through nonadiabatic alignment experiments (Cherepanov et al 2021 Phys. Rev. A 104 L061303). This calls for theoretical approaches that go beyond explaining renormalized values of molecular spectroscopic constants, which suffices when only the lowest few rotational states are involved. As the first step in this direction, here we present a basic quantum mechanical model describing highly excited rotational states of molecules in superfluid helium nanodroplets. We show that a linear molecule immersed in a superfluid can be seen as an effective symmetric top, similar to the rotational structure of radicals, such as OH or NO, but with the angular momentum of the superfluid playing the role of the electronic angular momentum in free molecules. The simple theory sheds light onto what happens when the rotational angular momentum of the molecule increases beyond the lowest excited states accessible by infrared spectroscopy. In addition, the model allows to estimate the effective rotational and centrifugal distortion constants for a broad range of species and to explain the crossover between light and heavy molecules in superfluid 4He in terms of the many-body wavefunction structure. Some of the above mentioned insights can be acquired by analyzing a simple 2 × 2 matrix. AU - Cherepanov, Igor AU - Bighin, Giacomo AU - Schouder, Constant A. AU - Chatterley, Adam S. AU - Stapelfeldt, Henrik AU - Lemeshko, Mikhail ID - 11998 IS - 7 JF - New Journal of Physics SN - 1367-2630 TI - A simple model for high rotational excitations of molecules in a superfluid VL - 24 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We study the fate of an impurity in an ultracold heteronuclear Bose mixture, focusing on the experimentally relevant case of a ⁴¹K - ⁸⁷Rb mixture, with the impurity in a ⁴¹K hyperfine state. Our paper provides a comprehensive description of an impurity in a BEC mixture with contact interactions across its phase diagram. We present results for the miscible and immiscible regimes, as well as for the impurity in a self-bound quantum droplet. Here, varying the interactions, we find exotic states where the impurity localizes either at the center or at the surface of the droplet. AU - Bighin, Giacomo AU - Burchianti, A. AU - Minardi, F. AU - Macrì, T. ID - 11997 IS - 2 JF - Physical Review A SN - 2469-9926 TI - Impurity in a heteronuclear two-component Bose mixture VL - 106 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We demonstrate the formation of robust zero-energy modes close to magnetic impurities in the iron-based superconductor FeSe1-z Tez. We find that the Zeeman field generated by the impurity favors a spin-triplet interorbital pairing as opposed to the spin-singlet intraorbital pairing prevalent in the bulk. The preferred spin-triplet pairing preserves time-reversal symmetry and is topological, as robust, topologically protected zero modes emerge at the boundary between regions with different pairing states. Moreover, the zero modes form Kramers doublets that are insensitive to the direction of the spin polarization or to the separation between impurities. We argue that our theoretical results are consistent with recent experimental measurements on FeSe1-z Tez. AU - Ghazaryan, Areg AU - Kirmani, Ammar AU - Fernandes, Rafael M. AU - Ghaemi, Pouyan ID - 12139 IS - 20 JF - Physical Review B SN - 2469-9950 TI - Anomalous Shiba states in topological iron-based superconductors VL - 106 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Methods inspired from machine learning have recently attracted great interest in the computational study of quantum many-particle systems. So far, however, it has proven challenging to deal with microscopic models in which the total number of particles is not conserved. To address this issue, we propose a variant of neural network states, which we term neural coherent states. Taking the Fröhlich impurity model as a case study, we show that neural coherent states can learn the ground state of nonadditive systems very well. In particular, we recover exact diagonalization in all regimes tested and observe substantial improvement over the standard coherent state estimates in the most challenging intermediate-coupling regime. Our approach is generic and does not assume specific details of the system, suggesting wide applications. AU - Rzadkowski, Wojciech AU - Lemeshko, Mikhail AU - Mentink, Johan H. ID - 12150 IS - 15 JF - Physical Review B SN - 2469-9950 TI - Artificial neural network states for nonadditive systems VL - 106 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Motivated by properties-controlling potential of the strain, we investigate strain dependence of structure, electronic, and magnetic properties of Sr2IrO4 using complementary theoretical tools: ab-initio calculations, analytical approaches (rigid octahedra picture, Slater-Koster integrals), and extended t−J model. We find that strain affects both Ir-Ir distance and Ir-O-Ir angle, and the rigid octahedra picture is not relevant. Second, we find fundamentally different behavior for compressive and tensile strain. One remarkable feature is the formation of two subsets of bond- and orbital-dependent carriers, a compass-like model, under compression. This originates from the strain-induced renormalization of the Ir-O-Ir superexchange and O on-site energy. We also show that under compressive (tensile) strain, Fermi surface becomes highly dispersive (relatively flat). Already at a tensile strain of 1.5%, we observe spectral weight redistribution, with the low-energy band acquiring almost purely singlet character. These results can be directly compared with future experiments. AU - Paerschke, Ekaterina AU - Chen, Wei-Chih AU - Ray, Rajyavardhan AU - Chen, Cheng-Chien ID - 12213 JF - npj Quantum Materials KW - Condensed Matter Physics KW - Electronic KW - Optical and Magnetic Materials TI - Evolution of electronic and magnetic properties of Sr₂IrO₄ under strain VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We review our theoretical results of the sound propagation in two-dimensional (2D) systems of ultracold fermionic and bosonic atoms. In the superfluid phase, characterized by the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the U(1) symmetry, there is the coexistence of first and second sound. In the case of weakly-interacting repulsive bosons, we model the recent measurements of the sound velocities of 39K atoms in 2D obtained in the weakly-interacting regime and around the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless (BKT) superfluid-to-normal transition temperature. In particular, we perform a quite accurate computation of the superfluid density and show that it is reasonably consistent with the experimental results. For superfluid attractive fermions, we calculate the first and second sound velocities across the whole BCS-BEC crossover. In the low-temperature regime, we reproduce the recent measurements of first-sound speed with 6Li atoms. We also predict that there is mixing between sound modes only in the finite-temperature BEC regime. AU - Salasnich, Luca AU - Cappellaro, Alberto AU - Furutani, Koichiro AU - Tononi, Andrea AU - Bighin, Giacomo ID - 12154 IS - 10 JF - Symmetry KW - Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) KW - General Mathematics KW - Chemistry (miscellaneous) KW - Computer Science (miscellaneous) SN - 2073-8994 TI - First and second sound in two-dimensional bosonic and fermionic superfluids VL - 14 ER - TY - THES AB - In this Thesis, I study composite quantum impurities with variational techniques, both inspired by machine learning as well as fully analytic. I supplement this with exploration of other applications of machine learning, in particular artificial neural networks, in many-body physics. In Chapters 3 and 4, I study quasiparticle systems with variational approach. I derive a Hamiltonian describing the angulon quasiparticle in the presence of a magnetic field. I apply analytic variational treatment to this Hamiltonian. Then, I introduce a variational approach for non-additive systems, based on artificial neural networks. I exemplify this approach on the example of the polaron quasiparticle (Fröhlich Hamiltonian). In Chapter 5, I continue using artificial neural networks, albeit in a different setting. I apply artificial neural networks to detect phases from snapshots of two types physical systems. Namely, I study Monte Carlo snapshots of multilayer classical spin models as well as molecular dynamics maps of colloidal systems. The main type of networks that I use here are convolutional neural networks, known for their applicability to image data. AU - Rzadkowski, Wojciech ID - 10759 SN - 2663-337X TI - Analytic and machine learning approaches to composite quantum impurities ER - TY - JOUR AB - Recently it was shown that anyons on the two-sphere naturally arise from a system of molecular impurities exchanging angular momentum with a many-particle bath (Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015301 (2021)). Here we further advance this approach and rigorously demonstrate that in the experimentally realized regime the lowest spectrum of two linear molecules immersed in superfluid helium corresponds to the spectrum of two anyons on the sphere. We develop the formalism within the framework of the recently experimentally observed angulon quasiparticle AU - Brooks, Morris AU - Lemeshko, Mikhail AU - Lundholm, Douglas AU - Yakaboylu, Enderalp ID - 10585 IS - 4 JF - Atoms KW - anyons KW - quasiparticles KW - Quantum Hall Effect KW - topological states of matter TI - Emergence of anyons on the two-sphere in molecular impurities VL - 9 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Area-dependent quantum field theory is a modification of two-dimensional topological quantum field theory, where one equips each connected component of a bordism with a positive real number—interpreted as area—which behaves additively under glueing. As opposed to topological theories, in area-dependent theories the state spaces can be infinite-dimensional. We introduce the notion of regularised Frobenius algebras in Hilbert spaces and show that area-dependent theories are in one-to-one correspondence to commutative regularised Frobenius algebras. We also provide a state sum construction for area-dependent theories. Our main example is two-dimensional Yang–Mills theory with compact gauge group, which we treat in detail. AU - Runkel, Ingo AU - Szegedy, Lorant ID - 8816 IS - 1 JF - Communications in Mathematical Physics SN - 00103616 TI - Area-dependent quantum field theory VL - 381 ER -