Nature of active forces in tissues: how contractile cells can form extensile monolayers
New horizons for inhomogeneous quenches and Floquet CFT
arXiv:2404.07884
Abstract:
A fruitful avenue in investigating out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems is to abruptly change their Hamiltonian and study the subsequent evolution of their quantum state. If this is done once, the setup is called a quench, while if it is done periodically, it is called Floquet driving. We consider the solvable setup of a two-dimensional CFT driven by Hamiltonians built out of conformal symmetry generators: in this case, the quantum dynamics can be understood using two-dimensional geometry. We investigate how the dynamics is reflected in the holographic dual three-dimensional spacetime and find new horizons. We argue that bulk operators behind the new horizons are reconstructable by virtue of modular flow.
Non-Poissonian bursts in the arrival of phenotypic variation can strongly affect the dynamics of adaptation
Odd Fracton Theories, Proximate Orders, and Parton Constructions
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society
Abstract:
The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem implies that gapped phases of matter must satisfy non-trivial conditions on their low-energy properties when a combination of lattice translation and $U(1)$ symmetry are imposed. We describe a framework to characterize the action of symmetry on fractons and other sub-dimensional fractional excitations, and use this together with the LSM theorem to establish that X-cube fracton order can occur only at integer or half-odd-integer filling. Using explicit parton constructions, we demonstrate that "odd" versions of X-cube fracton order can occur in systems at half-odd-integer filling, generalizing the notion of odd $Z_2$ gauge theory to the fracton setting. At half-odd-integer filling, exiting the X-cube phase by condensing fractional quasiparticles leads to symmetry-breaking, thereby allowing us to identify a class of conventional ordered phases proximate to phases with fracton order. We leverage a dual description of one of these ordered phases to show that its topological defects naturally have restricted mobility. Condensing pairs of these defects then leads to a fracton phase, whose excitations inherit these mobility restrictions.On thermal fluctuations in quantum magnets
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society