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https://pirsa.org/16120024

Theory and Experimental Platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases

Bi, Z. (2016). Theory and Experimental Platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/16120024

Bi, Zhen. Theory and Experimental Platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dec. 20, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16120024 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:16120024,
            doi = {10.48660/16120024},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16120024},
            author = {Bi, Zhen},
            keywords = {Quantum Matter},
            language = {en},
            title = {Theory and Experimental Platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2016},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:16120024 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/16120024}}
          }

Zhen Bi University of California, Santa Barbara

DOI 10.48660/16120024
Source Repository PIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Bosonic symmetric protected topological (BSPT) phases are bosonic anagolue of electron topological insulators and superconductors. Despite the theoretical progresses of classifying these states, little attention has been paid to experimental realization of BSPT states in dimensions higher than 1. We propose bilayer graphene system in a out-of-plane magnetic field with Coulomb interaction is a natural platform for BSPT states with $U(1)\times U(1)$ symmetry. We also propose that the quantum phase transition between the BSPT state and the trivial state, which may be tuned by an out-of-plane electric field, could be a novel transition with only gapless bosonic degrees of freedom. In the second part of the talk we will discuss the out-of-time-order correlation (OTOC) and its application in many-body localized and marginal MBL systems. We demonstrate, in marginal MBL systems, the scrambling time follows a stretched exponential scaling with the distance between the operators, which demonstrates Sinai diffusion of quantum information and the enhanced scrambling by the quantum criticality in non-chaotic systems.