Anomalous thermal relaxation and pump-probe spectroscopy of two-dimensional topologically ordered systems
Physical Review B 109:7 (2024)
Abstract:
We study the behavior of linear and nonlinear spectroscopic quantities in two-dimensional topologically ordered systems, which host anyonic excitations exhibiting fractional statistics. We highlight the role that braiding phases between anyons have on the dynamics of such quasiparticles, which as we show dictates the behavior of both linear response coefficients at finite temperatures, as well as nonlinear pump-probe response coefficients. These quantities, which act as probes of temporal correlations in the system, are shown to obey distinctive universal forms at sufficiently long timescales. As well as providing an experimentally measurable fingerprint of anyonic statistics, the universal behavior that we find also demonstrates anomalously fast thermal relaxation: correlation functions decay as a "squished exponential"C(t)∼exp(-[t/τ]3/2) at long times. We attribute this unusual asymptotic form to the nonlocal nature of interactions between anyons, which allows relaxation to occur much faster than in systems with quasiparticles interacting via local, nonstatistical interactions. While our results apply to any Abelian or non-Abelian topological phase in two-dimensions, we discuss in particular the implications for candidate quantum spin liquid materials, wherein the relevant quantities can be measured using pre-existing time-resolved terahertz-domain spectroscopic techniques.Anomalous thermal relaxation and pump-probe spectroscopy of 2D topologically ordered systems
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