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Non-Abelian Quasiholes In Lattice Moore-Read States And Parent Hamiltonians, Sourav Manna, Julia Wildeboer, Germán Sierra, Anne E. B. Nielsen
Non-Abelian Quasiholes In Lattice Moore-Read States And Parent Hamiltonians, Sourav Manna, Julia Wildeboer, Germán Sierra, Anne E. B. Nielsen
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
This work concerns Ising quasiholes in Moore-Read type lattice wave functions derived from conformal field theory. We commence with constructing Moore-Read type lattice states and then add quasiholes to them. By use of Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations, we analyze the features of the quasiholes, such as their size, shape, charge, and braiding properties. The braiding properties, which turn out to be the same as in the continuum Moore-Read state, demonstrate the topological attributes of the Moore-Read lattice states in a direct way. We also derive parent Hamiltonians for which the states with quasiholes included are ground states. One advantage of …
Electronic And Optical Properties Of La-Doped Sr3Ir2O7 Epitaxial Thin Films, Maryam Souri, Jsaminka Terzic, J. M. Johnson, John G. Connell, John H. Gruenewald, J. Thompson, Joseph W. Brill, J. Hwang, Gang Cao, Sung S. Ambrose Seo
Electronic And Optical Properties Of La-Doped Sr3Ir2O7 Epitaxial Thin Films, Maryam Souri, Jsaminka Terzic, J. M. Johnson, John G. Connell, John H. Gruenewald, J. Thompson, Joseph W. Brill, J. Hwang, Gang Cao, Sung S. Ambrose Seo
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
We have investigated structural, transport, and optical properties of tensile strained (Sr1−xLax)3Ir2O7 (x = 0, 0.025, 0.05) epitaxial thin films. While high-Tc superconductivity is predicted theoretically in the system, we have observed that all of the samples remain insulating with finite optical gap energies and Mott variable-range hopping characteristics in transport. Cross-sectional scanning transmission electron microscopy indicates that structural defects such as stacking faults appear in this system. The insulating behavior of the La-doped Sr3Ir2O7 thin films is presumably due to disorder-induced …