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Predrag NikolićPredrag Nikolić

George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University

Institute for Quantum Matter @ Johns Hopkins UniversityInstitute for Quantum Matter @ Johns Hopkins University

The College of William & MaryThe College of William & MarySeptember 5, 2014September 5, 2014

Acknowledgments

Collin BroholmIQM @ Johns Hopkins

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Wesley T. FuhrmanJohns Hopkins

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US Departmentof Energy

National ScienceFoundation

Zlatko TešanovićIQM @ Johns Hopkins

Michael LevinUniversity of Maryland

• Introduction to strongly correlated TIs – What we already (hopefuly) know – Kondo TIs

• Correlations on Kondo TI boundaries – Predictions of new physics – Hybridized regime: SDW, SC, spin liquids... – Local moment regime: AF metal, QED3...

• Exotic quantum states in TI quantum wells – Novel vortex states – Fractional incompressible quantum liquids

Overview

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Color codes:RelaxCool

Really?Watch out!

Fundamental Questions

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How to understand nature?What is it made of? How is it organized? (particle physics) (condensed matter physics)

Collective behavior of many particlesEmergent phenomena Critical phenomena (phases of matter) (lose the sight of microscopics)

Correlations

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By interactions between particlesLong-range order (spontaneous symmetry breaking)

By quantum entanglement∣Schrödinger's cat⟩=∣alive⟩+∣dead⟩

Topological vs. Conventional

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• Conventional states of matter – Local properties (order parameter) + symmetry determine all global properties

• Topological states of matter – Have global properties invisible to local probes (e.g. long-range entanglement)

• Examples of topological quantum states – Quantum Hall states & “topological insulators” – Spin liquids, string-net condensates...

Quantum Hall Effect

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• Integer QHE – 2D topological band-insulator of electrons in magnetic field – Bulk spectrum: Landau levels (continuum) or Hofstadter (lattice) – Boundary spectrum: chiral gapless edge modes – Non-local property: Chern #, quantized transverse (Hall) conductivity

Quantum Hall Liquids

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• Fractional QHE – Strongly correlated topological insulator of electrons in magn. field – Quasiparticles with fractional charge and exchange statistics – Ground-state degeneracy on a torus (no symmetry breaking) – Non-local property: many-body quantum entanglement (fract. stat.)

The Appeal of Topological

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• Macroscopic quantum entanglement – What makes quantum mechanics fascinating... – Still uncharted class of quantum states

• Non-local properties are resilient – Standard for measurements of resistivity – Topological quantum computation

• The math of topology is fancy

TR-invariant topological Insulators

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• Quantum (but not quantized) spin-Hall effect – Graphene – HgTe, Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, etc. quantum wells

M. K�nig, et.al, Science 318, 766 (2007)

3D Topological Insulators

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• Materials – Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, etc.

– SmB6 and other Kondo insulators (?)

M.Z.Hasan, C.L.Kane, Rev.Mod.Phys. 82, 3045 (2010)

• TR symmetry – Protected “helical” Dirac metal on the crystal surface – Odd number of Dirac points

Topology + Symmetry

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• Symmetry-protected boundary states – Charge conservation ⇒ edge states in QHE

– TR symmetry ⇒ edge states in QSHE, Dirac metal in TIs

– Crystal symmetry ⇒ additional Dirac points on TI boundaries

• Quantum anomalies – Local field theory on the boundary cannot be regularized

⇒ global entanglement on the boundary at cut-off scales (through the bulk)

Cancun, Mexico in June 2014

(proves that boundaries are most interesting) Is our universe a topological boundary?Is our universe a topological boundary?

Kondo Insulators

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• Electron spectrum – Hybridized broad d and narrow f orbitals of the rare earth atom (e.g. Sm) – Heavy fermion insulators: E

f is inside the hybridization bandgap

– Coulomb interactions ≫ f-bandwidth

• Correlations – T-dependent gap – Collective modes

• Materials: – SmB6, YbB12, Ce3Bi4Pt3, Ce3Pt3Sb3, CeNiSn, CeRhSb...

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Kondo TIs (SmB6)

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• Is SmB6 a topological insulator? – Theoretical proposal by band-inversions: Dzero, Galtski, Coleman – Residual T→0 resistivity & surface conduction – Quantum Hall effect – Latest neutron scattering – etc.

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D.J.Kim, J.Xia, Z.FiskarXiv:1307.0448

A.Kebede, et al.Physica B 223, 256 (1996)

G.Li, et al.arXiv:1306.5221

Collective modes in SmB6

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• Sharp peak in inelastic neutron scattering – Nearly flat dispersion at 14 meV – Protected from decay (inside the 19 meV bandgap) – Theory: perturbative slave boson model

Neutron scattering experiment: Broholm group at IQM/JHU

Theory: Fuhrman, PN

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Collective Mode Theory

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• Perturbative slave boson theory – Applied to the Anderson model adapted by Dzero, et al. – Input: renormalized band-structure + 3 phenomenological param.

– Output: mode dispersion & spectral weight in the 1st B.Z.

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• Slave bosons – no double-occupancy of lattice sites by f electrons

SmB6 Theory + Experiment

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• Match the theoretical & experimental mode spectra – Fit the band-structure and phenomenological param. – deduce the renormalized fermion spectrum implied band inversion at X ⇒ a TI

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experiment theory

Implied qualitative FS of d electrons

Kondo TI Boundary

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• A 2D “helical” heavy fermion system

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Bands “bend” near the boundary Hybridized regime Local moment regime

Surface bands

Details are not universalBulk bands

SmB6 metallic surface electron dispersion

The phase diagram of heavy fermion “metals”

Hybridized Surface Regime

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Basic process:

f-d Hybridization assisted by a slave boson

evolves into Kondo singlet upon localization

• 2D perturbative slave boson theory – Slave bosons mediate forces among electrons – attractive in exciton, repulsive in Cooper ch.

slave bosonrenormalization

exciton Cooper

• Instabilities by nesting – Magnetic (SDW) ⇒ Dirac points perish

– Superconductivity (s± or d-wave) ⇒ Dirac points live

(π,π)

(π,0)

Recall: we have acollective mode rightat these wavevectors

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Localization of Hybridized Electrons

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• Mott insulators in doped lattice models – Localization at p/q particles per lattice site – Broken translation symmetry

• Coulomb: may localize charge – Can't localize spin so easily on a TI surface!

– S.O.C. ⇒ No spin back-scattering

• Mott insulators in doped lattice models – Localization at – Broken translation symmetry

A “flat” band!(partially populated)

• Compromise: spin liquid – Algebraic: Dirac points of spinons – Non-Abelian: fully gapped

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Surface Local Moment Regime

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• Kondo v.s. RKKY – RKKY wins ⇒ • AF metal or insulator (gapped Dirac points) • VBS, spin liquid, etc. Dirac metal

– Kondo wins (unrealistic over-screening) ⇒ • featureless conventional Dirac metal

– Kondo singlets frustrate the RKKY orders as doped “holes” ⇒ • spin liquid of f electrons + 2D QED of conduction electrons

• The charge of f electrons is localized – The f orbital is half-filled – Low-energy dynamics: Kondo lattice model

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Correlated TI quantum wells

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• Perturb a QCP by the spin-orbit effect – New phases emerge due to relevant scales

PN, T.Duric, Z.TesanovicPRL 110, 176804 (2013)

PN, Z.TesanovicPRB 87, 104514 (2013)

PN, Z.TesanovicPRB 87, 134511 (2013)

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Vortex lattice wins?(tight S=1 Cooper pairs)

Competing orders

• Competition for 1% of free energy (F)

– PDW map (by ordering wavevectors):

commensurate pair density waves

vortex lattices

incommensurate plane waves

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VL

PDW

Helical spin currents on a lattice

• Main competitors for the ground state: – pair density wave (PDW) states usually win, but found only when looked for! – SU(2) vortex lattices (type-I structures) always found in unconstrained minimization, sometimes win?

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Similar to:

W.S.Cole, S.Zhang, A.Paramekanti, N. Trivedi,

PRL 109, 085302 (2012)

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Vortex lattice melting

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• SU(2) vortex lattice – Array of “chiral” vortices and antivortices – Ideally one vortex per Yang-Mills “flux quantum” – Frustrated by the crystal lattice

• Quantum fluctuations – Positional fluctuations of vortices – Grow when the condensate is weakened by tuning the gate voltage

– Eventually, 1st order phase transition (preempts the 2nd order one)

• Vortex liquid – Particles per flux quantum ~ 1 – Fractional TI?

Cyclotron:

SU(2) flux:

PN, T.Duric, Z.Tesanovic, PRL 110, 176804 (2013)

PN, PRB 79, 144507 (2009)

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Rashba S.O.C. on a TI's Boundary

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• Particles + static SU(2) gauge field

Yang-Mills flux matrix(“magnetic” for μ=0)

SU(2) generators(spin projection matrices)

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– Rashba S.O.C. ⇒ Dirac spectrumD. Hsieh, et.al, PRL 103, 146401 (2009)

Y. Zhang, et.al, Nature Phys. 6, 584 (2010)

Cyclotron:

SU(2) flux:

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Effective theory of fractional TIs

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• Landau-Ginzburg theory (dual Lagrangian of vortices)

• Topological term – equation of motion ⇒ “drift currents” in U(1)xSU(2) E&M field

PN, PRB 87, 245120(2013)

P.N, J.Phys: Cond.Mat.25, 025602 (2013).

dual gauge field matrix

Maxwell term(density fluctuations)

spinor vortex field

Levi-Civita tensor anti-commutators flux matrix

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Duality

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• Particle Lagrangian

• Boson-vortex duality in (2+1)D

Exact if:– particles are bosons– S

z is conserved

Conjecture:– generalize by symmetry– fermionic particles?

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Incompressible Quantum Liquids

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• Quantum (spin) Hall:

Chern-Simons Maxwell

• Rashba:

effective Chern-Simons theory w.constrained non-Abelian gauge field

Conclusions

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• Kondo (and other) TI quantum wells – SU(2) vortex lattice, non-Abelian fractional TIs

• Kondo TI boundaries – Correlated states at the crystal boundary

– Hybridized regime: Dirac metal, SDW, SC, spin liquids...

– Local moment regime: AF metal/insulator, helical 2D QED

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• Neutron studies of SmB6

– Clear evidence of strong correlations – Points to a topological band-structure