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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 14: Focus Session: Quantum Properties at Functional Oxide Interfaces (joint session HL/DS)
HL 14.4: Vortrag
Dienstag, 6. September 2022, 10:45–11:00, H34
Non-Abelian braiding of phonons in monolayer oxides — •Bo Peng1, Adrien Bouhon1, Bartomeu Monserrat1,2, and Robert-Jan Slager1 — 1TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom — 2Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom
Non-Abelian braiding of quasiparticles can encode quantum information immune from environmental noise with the potential to realize topological quantum computation. Here we propose that phonons, a bosonic excitation of lattice vibrations, can carry non-Abelian charges in their band structures that can be braided using external stimuli. Taking some earthly abundant materials such as silicates [1] and aluminium oxide [2] as representative examples, we demonstrate that an external electric field or electrostatic doping can give rise to phonon band inversions that induce the redistribution of non-Abelian charges, leading to non-Abelian braiding of phonons. We show that phonons can be a primary platform to study non-Abelian braiding in the reciprocal space, and we expand the toolset to study such braiding processes.
References: [1] Bo Peng, Adrien Bouhon, Bartomeu Monserrat & Robert-Jan Slager. Nature Communications 13, 423 (2022). [2] Bo Peng, Adrien Bouhon, Robert-Jan Slager & Bartomeu Monserrat. Physical Review B 105, 085115 (2022).