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A higher-order topological twist on cold-atom SO($5$) Dirac fields
by Alejandro Bermudez, Daniel González-Cuadra, Simon Hands
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Alejandro Bermudez |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202310_00005v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2024-05-22 |
| Date submitted: | 2024-05-10 14:27 |
| Submitted by: | Bermudez, Alejandro |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
ed as a flexible quantum simulator of Dirac quantum field theories (QFTs) that combine Gross-Neveu and Thirring interactions with a higher-order topological twist. We show that the lattice model corresponds to a regularization of this QFT with an anisotropic twisted Wilson mass. This allows us to access higher-order topological states protected by a {discrete SO($5$) group}, a remnant of the {continuous} rotational symmetry of the 4-Fermi interactions that is not explicitly broken by the lattice discretization. Using large-$N$ methods, we show that the 4-Fermi interactions lead to a rich phase diagram with various competing fermion condensates. Our work opens a route for the implementation of correlated higher-order topological states with tunable interactions that has interesting connections to non-trivial relativistic QFTs of Dirac fermions in $D=2+1$ dimensions.
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Dear Editors of SciPost,
We would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to address the comments raised by the second Referee in the second round of referral. We have addressed them, performing the suggested changes. Given also that the the first Referee already recommended our first revised work to be published, we believe that our amended manuscript is now ready to be published in SciPost.
Please find below a list of changes, together with our detailed answer to the Referees.
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- We have corrected several typos spotted by the 1st Referee (red in the marked pdf).
- Following the suggestion of the Referee, we have corrected typos and avoided inconsistencies in the notation regarding tunneling strengths an real time (red in the marked pdf)
- Following the suggestion of the Referee, we have extended the ‘experimental detection subsection IV.C ’.
Published as SciPost Phys. 17, 003 (2024)