Squeezing Quantum States in Three-Dimensional Twisted Crystals
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| author | Phong, Vo Tien Kunkelmann, Kason De Beule, Christophe Ezzi, Mohammed M. Al Slager, Robert-Jan Adam, Shaffique Mele, E. J. |
| author_facet | Phong, Vo Tien Kunkelmann, Kason De Beule, Christophe Ezzi, Mohammed M. Al Slager, Robert-Jan Adam, Shaffique Mele, E. J. |
| contents | A fundamental idea in wave mechanics is that propagation in a periodic medium can be described by Bloch waves whose conserved crystal momenta define their transformations when displaced by the set of discrete lattice translations. In ordered materials where incommensurate spatial periods compete, this general principle is rendered ineffective, often with dramatic consequences. Examples are crystals with broken symmetries from charge or spin density waves, quasiperiodic lattices that produce diffraction patterns with crystallographically forbidden point symmetries, and stacks of two-dimensional lattices with a relative rotation (twist) between layers. In special cases when there is a small difference between the competing periods, a useful work-around is a continuum description where a periodic long-wavelength field produces Bragg scattering that coherently mixes short-wavelength carrier waves. In this work, we advocate an alternative approach to study three-dimensional twisted crystals that replaces their spectrally congested momentum-space Bloch band structures with a representation using squeezed coherent states in a Fock space of free-particle vortex states. This reorganization of the Hilbert space highlights the crucial role of the Coriolis force in the equations of motion that leads to unconventional phase space dynamics and edge state structure generic to a family of complex crystals. |
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| spellingShingle | Squeezing Quantum States in Three-Dimensional Twisted Crystals Phong, Vo Tien Kunkelmann, Kason De Beule, Christophe Ezzi, Mohammed M. Al Slager, Robert-Jan Adam, Shaffique Mele, E. J. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Quantum Physics A fundamental idea in wave mechanics is that propagation in a periodic medium can be described by Bloch waves whose conserved crystal momenta define their transformations when displaced by the set of discrete lattice translations. In ordered materials where incommensurate spatial periods compete, this general principle is rendered ineffective, often with dramatic consequences. Examples are crystals with broken symmetries from charge or spin density waves, quasiperiodic lattices that produce diffraction patterns with crystallographically forbidden point symmetries, and stacks of two-dimensional lattices with a relative rotation (twist) between layers. In special cases when there is a small difference between the competing periods, a useful work-around is a continuum description where a periodic long-wavelength field produces Bragg scattering that coherently mixes short-wavelength carrier waves. In this work, we advocate an alternative approach to study three-dimensional twisted crystals that replaces their spectrally congested momentum-space Bloch band structures with a representation using squeezed coherent states in a Fock space of free-particle vortex states. This reorganization of the Hilbert space highlights the crucial role of the Coriolis force in the equations of motion that leads to unconventional phase space dynamics and edge state structure generic to a family of complex crystals. |
| title | Squeezing Quantum States in Three-Dimensional Twisted Crystals |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16602 |