Floquet topological phase transitions in a periodically quenched dimer

Topological Phase Transitions in Periodically Modulated Quantized Metal Films

Topological Phase Transitions and Holonomies in the Dimer Model

We demonstrate that the classical dimer model defined on a toroidal hexagonal lattice acquires holonomy phases in the thermodynamic limit. When all activities are equal the lattice sizes must be considered mod 6 in which case the finite size corrections to the bulk partition function correspond to a massless Dirac Fermion in the presence of a flat connection with nontrivial holonomy. For genera...

Phase transitions in periodically driven macroscopic systems.

We study the large-time behavior of a class of periodically driven macroscopic systems. We find, for a certain range of the parameters of either the system or the driving fields, the time-averaged asymptotic behavior effectively is that of certain other equilibrium systems. We then illustrate with a few examples how the conventional knowledge of the equilibrium systems can be made use of in cho...

Quantum phase transitions in coupled dimer compounds

We study the critical properties in cubic systems of antiferromagnetically coupled spin dimers near magnetic-field-induced quantum phase transitions. The quantum critical points in the zero-temperature phase diagram are determined from quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Furthermore, scaling properties of the uniform magnetization and the staggered transverse magnetization across the quantum phase...

Topological Aspects of Phase Transitions

In the past decade and a half, an alternative analysis of phase transitions, based in the topological behavior of system configuration spaces, has been introduced. This method offers a new understanding of many phase transitions, particularly those in finite systems, using topology and manifold behavior. While the broadest hypotheses offered by researchers have proven overly optimistic, the met...