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Ultrafast dynamics of the surface photovoltage in potassium-doped black phosphorus

Kremer, Geoffroy ; Rumo, Maxime ; Yue, Changming ; Pulkkinen, Aki ; Nicholson, Christopher W. ; Jaouen, Thomas ; Von Rohr, Fabian ; Werner, Philipp ; Monney, Claude

In: Physical Review B, 2021, vol. 104, no. 3, p. 035125

Black phosphorus is a quasi-two-dimensional layered semiconductor with a narrow direct band gap of 0.3 eV. A giant surface Stark effect can be produced by the potassium doping of black phosphorus, leading to a semiconductor to semimetal phase transition originating from the creation of a strong surface dipole and associated band bending. By using time- and angle-resolved photoemission ...

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Entropy and electronic orders of the three-orbital Hubbard model with antiferromagnetic Hund coupling

Yue, Changming ; Hoshino, Shintaro ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 102, no. 19, p. 195103

An antiferromagnetic Hund coupling in multiorbital Hubbard systems induces orbital freezing and an associated superconducting instability, as well as unique composite orders in the case of an odd number of orbitals. While the rich phase diagram of the half-filled three-orbital model has recently been explored in detail, the properties of the doped system remain to be clarified. Here, we...

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Alleviating the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulations of spin-orbit-coupled multiorbital Hubbard models

Kim, Aaram J. ; Werner, Philipp ; Valentí, Roser

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 101, no. 4, p. 045108

We present a strategy to alleviate the sign problem in continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CTQMC) simulations of the dynamical-mean-field-theory (DMFT) equations for the spin-orbit-coupled multiorbital Hubbard model. We first identify the combinations of rotationally invariant Hund coupling terms present in the relativistic basis which lead to a severe sign problem. Exploiting the fact that...

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Pressure-driven insulator-metal transition in cubic phase UO 2

Huang, Li ; Wang, Yilin ; Werner, Philipp

In: EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2017, vol. 119, no. 5, p. 57007

Understanding the electronic properties of actinide oxides under pressure poses a great challenge for experimental and theoretical studies. Here, we investigate the electronic structure of cubic phase uranium dioxide at different volumes using a combination of density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory. The ab initio calculations predict an orbital-selective insulator-metal...

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Tracing the nonequilibrium topological state of Chern insulators

Schüler, Michael ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 96, no. 15, p. 155122

Chern insulators exhibit fascinating properties, which originate from the topologically nontrivial state characterized by the Chern number. How these properties change if the system is quenched between topologically distinct phases is, however, not fully understood. In this paper, we investigate the quench dynamics of the prototypical massive Dirac model for topological insulators in two...

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Continuous-time hybridization expansion quantum impurity solver for multi-orbital systems with complex hybridizations

Shinaoka, Hiroshi ; Gull, Emanuel ; Werner, Philipp

In: Computer Physics Communications, 2017, vol. 215, p. 128–136

We describe an open-source implementation of the continuous-time hybridization- expansion quantum Monte Carlo method for impurity models with general instantaneous two-body interactions and complex hybridization functions. The code is built on an updated version of the core libraries of ALPS (Applications and Libraries for Physics Simulations) [ALPSCore libraries].

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Detecting phase transitions and crossovers in Hubbard models using the fidelity susceptibility

Huang, Li ; Wang, Yilin ; Wang, Lei ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2016, vol. 94, no. 23, p. 235110

A generalized version of the fidelity susceptibility of single-band and multiorbital Hubbard models is systematically studied using single-site dynamical mean-field theory in combination with a hybridization expansion continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solver. We find that the fidelity susceptibility is extremely sensitive to changes in the state of the system. It can be used as a...

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Phase diagram of pyrochlore iridates: all-in\char21{}All-out magnetic ordering and non-Fermi-liquid properties

Shinaoka, Hiroshi ; Hoshino, Shintaro ; Troyer, Matthias ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review Letters, 2015, vol. 115, no. 15, p. 156401

We study the prototype 5d pyrochlore iridate Y2Ir2O7 from first principles using the local density approximation and dynamical mean-field theory (LDA+DMFT). We map out the phase diagram in the space of temperature, on-site Coulomb repulsion U, and filling. Consistent with experiments, we find that an all-in–all-out ordered insulating phase is stable for realistic values of U. The trigonal...

  • We thank Lewin Boehnke, Xi Dai, Li Huang, Hugo Strand, Jakub Imriska, Yukitoshi Motome, Hongbin Zhang, Youhei Yamaji, Lei Wang, and Hiroshi Watanabe for the stimulating discussions and useful comments....
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iQIST : An open source continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo impurity solver toolkit

Huang, Li ; Wang, Yilin ; Meng, Zi Yang ; Du, Liang ; Werner, Philipp ; Dai, Xi

In: Computer Physics Communications, 2015, vol. 195, p. 140–160

Quantum impurity solvers have a broad range of applications in theoretical studies of strongly correlated electron systems. Especially, they play a key role in dynamical mean-field theory calculations of correlated lattice models and realistic materials. Therefore, the development and implementation of efficient quantum impurity solvers is an important task. In this paper, we present an open...

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Long-Range coulomb interactions in surface systems: a first-Principles description within self-Consistently combined GW and dynamical mean-Field theory

Hansmann, P. ; Ayral, T. ; Vaugier, L. ; Werner, Philipp ; Biermann, S.

In: Physical Review Letters, 2013, vol. 110, no. 16, p. 166401

Systems of adatoms on semiconductor surfaces display competing ground states and exotic spectral properties typical of two-dimensional correlated electron materials which are dominated by a complex interplay of spin and charge degrees of freedom. We report a fully ab initio derivation of low-energy Hamiltonians for the adatom systems Si(111):X, with X=Sn, Si, C, Pb, that we solve within...

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