--- _id: '14851' abstract: - lang: ger text: Die Quantenrotation ist ein spannendes Phänomen, das in vielen verschiedenen Systemen auftritt, von Molekülen und Atomen bis hin zu subatomaren Teilchen wie Neutronen und Protonen. Durch den Einsatz von starken Laserpulsen ist es möglich, die mathematisch anspruchsvolle Topologie der Rotation von Molekülen aufzudecken und topologisch geschützte Zustände zu erzeugen, die unerwartetes Verhalten zeigen. Diese Entdeckungen könnten Auswirkungen auf die Molekülphysik und physikalische Chemie haben und die Entwicklung neuer Technologien ermöglichen. Die Verbindung von Quantenrotation und Topologie stellt ein aufregendes, interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld dar und bietet neue Wege zur Kontrolle und Nutzung von quantenmechanischen Phänomenen. article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: original author: - first_name: Volker full_name: Karle, Volker id: D7C012AE-D7ED-11E9-95E8-1EC5E5697425 last_name: Karle orcid: 0000-0002-6963-0129 - first_name: Mikhail full_name: Lemeshko, Mikhail id: 37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lemeshko orcid: 0000-0002-6990-7802 citation: ama: Karle V, Lemeshko M. Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten. Physik in unserer Zeit. 2024;55(1):28-33. doi:10.1002/piuz.202301690 apa: Karle, V., & Lemeshko, M. (2024). Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten. Physik in unserer Zeit. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/piuz.202301690 chicago: Karle, Volker, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten.” Physik in unserer Zeit. Wiley, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/piuz.202301690. ieee: V. Karle and M. Lemeshko, “Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten,” Physik in unserer Zeit, vol. 55, no. 1. Wiley, pp. 28–33, 2024. ista: Karle V, Lemeshko M. 2024. Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten. Physik in unserer Zeit. 55(1), 28–33. mla: Karle, Volker, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten.” Physik in unserer Zeit, vol. 55, no. 1, Wiley, 2024, pp. 28–33, doi:10.1002/piuz.202301690. short: V. Karle, M. Lemeshko, Physik in unserer Zeit 55 (2024) 28–33. date_created: 2024-01-22T08:19:36Z date_published: 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-02-15T14:29:04Z day: '01' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1002/piuz.202301690 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 3051dadcf9bc57da97e36b647c596ab1 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2024-01-23T12:18:07Z date_updated: 2024-01-23T12:18:07Z file_id: '14878' file_name: 2024_PhysikZeit_Karle.pdf file_size: 1155244 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-01-23T12:18:07Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 55' issue: '1' keyword: - General Earth and Planetary Sciences - General Environmental Science language: - iso: ger month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 28-33 publication: Physik in unserer Zeit publication_identifier: eissn: - 1521-3943 issn: - 0031-9252 publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Die faszinierende Topologie rotierender Quanten tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 55 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '15004' abstract: - lang: eng text: The impulsive limit (the “sudden approximation”) has been widely employed to describe the interaction between molecules and short, far-off-resonant laser pulses. This approximation assumes that the timescale of the laser-molecule interaction is significantly shorter than the internal rotational period of the molecule, resulting in the rotational motion being instantaneously “frozen” during the interaction. This simplified description of the laser-molecule interaction is incorporated in various theoretical models predicting rotational dynamics of molecules driven by short laser pulses. In this theoretical work, we develop an effective theory for ultrashort laser pulses by examining the full time-evolution operator and solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation at the operator level. Our findings reveal a critical angular momentum, lcrit, at which the impulsive limit breaks down. In other words, the validity of the sudden approximation depends not only on the pulse duration but also on its intensity, since the latter determines how many angular momentum states are populated. We explore both ultrashort multicycle (Gaussian) pulses and the somewhat less studied half-cycle pulses, which produce distinct effective potentials. We discuss the limitations of the impulsive limit and propose a method that rescales the effective matrix elements, enabling an improved and more accurate description of laser-molecule interactions. acknowledgement: We thank Bretislav Friedrich, Marjan Mirahmadi, Artem Volosniev, and Burkhard Schmidt for insightful discussions. M.L. acknowledges support by the European Research Council (ERC) under Starting Grant No. 801770 (ANGULON). article_number: '023101' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Volker full_name: Karle, Volker id: D7C012AE-D7ED-11E9-95E8-1EC5E5697425 last_name: Karle orcid: 0000-0002-6963-0129 - first_name: Mikhail full_name: Lemeshko, Mikhail id: 37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lemeshko orcid: 0000-0002-6990-7802 citation: ama: 'Karle V, Lemeshko M. Modeling laser pulses as δ kicks: Reevaluating the impulsive limit in molecular rotational dynamics. Physical Review A. 2024;109(2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.109.023101' apa: 'Karle, V., & Lemeshko, M. (2024). Modeling laser pulses as δ kicks: Reevaluating the impulsive limit in molecular rotational dynamics. Physical Review A. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.023101' chicago: 'Karle, Volker, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Modeling Laser Pulses as δ Kicks: Reevaluating the Impulsive Limit in Molecular Rotational Dynamics.” Physical Review A. American Physical Society, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.023101.' ieee: 'V. Karle and M. Lemeshko, “Modeling laser pulses as δ kicks: Reevaluating the impulsive limit in molecular rotational dynamics,” Physical Review A, vol. 109, no. 2. American Physical Society, 2024.' ista: 'Karle V, Lemeshko M. 2024. Modeling laser pulses as δ kicks: Reevaluating the impulsive limit in molecular rotational dynamics. Physical Review A. 109(2), 023101.' mla: 'Karle, Volker, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Modeling Laser Pulses as δ Kicks: Reevaluating the Impulsive Limit in Molecular Rotational Dynamics.” Physical Review A, vol. 109, no. 2, 023101, American Physical Society, 2024, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.109.023101.' short: V. Karle, M. Lemeshko, Physical Review A 109 (2024). date_created: 2024-02-18T23:01:01Z date_published: 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-02-26T09:45:20Z day: '01' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.023101 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2307.07256' intvolume: ' 109' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.07256 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 2688CF98-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '801770' name: 'Angulon: physics and applications of a new quasiparticle' publication: Physical Review A publication_identifier: eissn: - 2469-9934 issn: - 2469-9926 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Modeling laser pulses as δ kicks: Reevaluating the impulsive limit in molecular rotational dynamics' type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 109 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '12788' abstract: - lang: eng text: We show that the simplest of existing molecules—closed-shell diatomics not interacting with one another—host topological charges when driven by periodic far-off-resonant laser pulses. A periodically kicked molecular rotor can be mapped onto a “crystalline” lattice in angular momentum space. This allows us to define quasimomenta and the band structure in the Floquet representation, by analogy with the Bloch waves of solid-state physics. Applying laser pulses spaced by 1/3 of the molecular rotational period creates a lattice with three atoms per unit cell with staggered hopping. Within the synthetic dimension of the laser strength, we discover Dirac cones with topological charges. These Dirac cones, topologically protected by reflection and time-reversal symmetry, are reminiscent of (although not equivalent to) that seen in graphene. They—and the corresponding edge states—are broadly tunable by adjusting the laser strength and can be observed in present-day experiments by measuring molecular alignment and populations of rotational levels. This paves the way to study controllable topological physics in gas-phase experiments with small molecules as well as to classify dynamical molecular states by their topological invariants. acknowledgement: M. L. acknowledges support by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant No. 801770 (ANGULON). article_number: '103202' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Volker full_name: Karle, Volker id: D7C012AE-D7ED-11E9-95E8-1EC5E5697425 last_name: Karle - first_name: Areg full_name: Ghazaryan, Areg id: 4AF46FD6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ghazaryan orcid: 0000-0001-9666-3543 - first_name: Mikhail full_name: Lemeshko, Mikhail id: 37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lemeshko orcid: 0000-0002-6990-7802 citation: ama: Karle V, Ghazaryan A, Lemeshko M. Topological charges of periodically kicked molecules. Physical Review Letters. 2023;130(10). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.103202 apa: Karle, V., Ghazaryan, A., & Lemeshko, M. (2023). Topological charges of periodically kicked molecules. Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.103202 chicago: Karle, Volker, Areg Ghazaryan, and Mikhail Lemeshko. “Topological Charges of Periodically Kicked Molecules.” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.103202. ieee: V. Karle, A. Ghazaryan, and M. Lemeshko, “Topological charges of periodically kicked molecules,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 130, no. 10. American Physical Society, 2023. ista: Karle V, Ghazaryan A, Lemeshko M. 2023. Topological charges of periodically kicked molecules. Physical Review Letters. 130(10), 103202. mla: Karle, Volker, et al. “Topological Charges of Periodically Kicked Molecules.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 130, no. 10, 103202, American Physical Society, 2023, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.103202. short: V. Karle, A. Ghazaryan, M. Lemeshko, Physical Review Letters 130 (2023). date_created: 2023-04-02T22:01:10Z date_published: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-01T14:02:06Z day: '10' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.103202 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2206.07067' isi: - '000957635500003' intvolume: ' 130' isi: 1 issue: '10' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.07067 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 2688CF98-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '801770' name: 'Angulon: physics and applications of a new quasiparticle' publication: Physical Review Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1079-7114 issn: - 0031-9007 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on the ISTA website relation: press_release url: https://ista.ac.at/en/news/topology-of-rotating-molecules/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Topological charges of periodically kicked molecules type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 130 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '9903' abstract: - lang: eng text: Eigenstate thermalization in quantum many-body systems implies that eigenstates at high energy are similar to random vectors. Identifying systems where at least some eigenstates are nonthermal is an outstanding question. In this Letter we show that interacting quantum models that have a nullspace—a degenerate subspace of eigenstates at zero energy (zero modes), which corresponds to infinite temperature, provide a route to nonthermal eigenstates. We analytically show the existence of a zero mode which can be represented as a matrix product state for a certain class of local Hamiltonians. In the more general case we use a subspace disentangling algorithm to generate an orthogonal basis of zero modes characterized by increasing entanglement entropy. We show evidence for an area-law entanglement scaling of the least-entangled zero mode in the broad parameter regime, leading to a conjecture that all local Hamiltonians with the nullspace feature zero modes with area-law entanglement scaling and, as such, break the strong thermalization hypothesis. Finally, we find zero modes in constrained models and propose a setup for observing their experimental signatures. acknowledgement: "We acknowledge useful discussions with V. Gritsev and A. Garkun and suggestions on implementation of the\r\nPPXPP model by D. Bluvstein. A. M. and M. S. were supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under\r\nthe European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 850899)" article_number: '060602' article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) article_type: letter_note author: - first_name: Volker full_name: Karle, Volker id: D7C012AE-D7ED-11E9-95E8-1EC5E5697425 last_name: Karle orcid: 0000-0002-6963-0129 - first_name: Maksym full_name: Serbyn, Maksym id: 47809E7E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Serbyn orcid: 0000-0002-2399-5827 - first_name: Alexios full_name: Michailidis, Alexios id: 36EBAD38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Michailidis orcid: 0000-0002-8443-1064 citation: ama: Karle V, Serbyn M, Michailidis A. Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians. Physical Review Letters. 2021;127(6). doi:10.1103/physrevlett.127.060602 apa: Karle, V., Serbyn, M., & Michailidis, A. (2021). Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians. Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.060602 chicago: Karle, Volker, Maksym Serbyn, and Alexios Michailidis. “Area-Law Entangled Eigenstates from Nullspaces of Local Hamiltonians.” Physical Review Letters. American Physical Society, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.060602. ieee: V. Karle, M. Serbyn, and A. Michailidis, “Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, no. 6. American Physical Society, 2021. ista: Karle V, Serbyn M, Michailidis A. 2021. Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians. Physical Review Letters. 127(6), 060602. mla: Karle, Volker, et al. “Area-Law Entangled Eigenstates from Nullspaces of Local Hamiltonians.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, no. 6, 060602, American Physical Society, 2021, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.127.060602. short: V. Karle, M. Serbyn, A. Michailidis, Physical Review Letters 127 (2021). date_created: 2021-08-13T09:27:39Z date_published: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-11T10:43:27Z day: '06' ddc: - '539' department: - _id: MaSe - _id: GradSch - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.060602 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2102.13633' isi: - '000684276000002' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 51218f302dcef99d90d1209809fcc874 content_type: application/pdf creator: mserbyn date_created: 2021-08-13T09:28:08Z date_updated: 2021-08-13T09:28:08Z file_id: '9904' file_name: PhysRevLett.127.060602_SOM.pdf file_size: 5064231 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-08-13T09:28:08Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 127' isi: 1 issue: '6' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 23841C26-32DE-11EA-91FC-C7463DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '850899' name: 'Non-Ergodic Quantum Matter: Universality, Dynamics and Control' publication: Physical Review Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1079-7114 issn: - 0031-9007 publication_status: published publisher: American Physical Society quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 127 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '8741' abstract: - lang: eng text: "In ecology, climate and other fields, (sub)systems have been identified that can transition into a qualitatively different state when a critical threshold or tipping point in a driving process is crossed. An understanding of those tipping elements is of great interest given the increasing influence of humans on the biophysical Earth system. Complex interactions exist between tipping elements, e.g. physical mechanisms connect subsystems of the climate system. Based on earlier work on such coupled nonlinear systems, we systematically assessed the qualitative long-term behaviour of interacting tipping elements. We developed an understanding of the consequences of interactions\r\non the tipping behaviour allowing for tipping cascades to emerge under certain conditions. The (narrative) application of\r\nthese qualitative results to real-world examples of interacting tipping elements indicates that tipping cascades with profound consequences may occur: the interacting Greenland ice sheet and thermohaline ocean circulation might tip before the tipping points of the isolated subsystems are crossed. The eutrophication of the first lake in a lake chain might propagate through the following lakes without a crossing of their individual critical nutrient input levels. The possibility of emerging cascading tipping dynamics calls for the development of a unified theory of interacting tipping elements and the quantitative analysis of interacting real-world tipping elements." acknowledgement: "V.K. thanks the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for financial\r\nsupport. J.F.D. is grateful for financial support by the Stordalen Foundation via the Planetary Boundary Research\r\nNetwork (PB.net), the Earth League’s EarthDoc program and the European Research Council Advanced Grant\r\nproject ERA (Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene). We are thankful for support by the Leibniz Association\r\n(project DominoES).\r\nAcknowledgements. This work has been performed in the context of the copan collaboration and the FutureLab on Earth\r\nResilience in the Anthropocene at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Furthermore, we acknowledge\r\ndiscussions with and helpful comments by N. Wunderling, J. Heitzig and M. Wiedermann." article_number: '200599' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Ann Kristin full_name: Klose, Ann Kristin last_name: Klose - first_name: Volker full_name: Karle, Volker id: D7C012AE-D7ED-11E9-95E8-1EC5E5697425 last_name: Karle orcid: 0000-0002-6963-0129 - first_name: Ricarda full_name: Winkelmann, Ricarda last_name: Winkelmann - first_name: Jonathan F. full_name: Donges, Jonathan F. last_name: Donges citation: ama: 'Klose AK, Karle V, Winkelmann R, Donges JF. Emergence of cascading dynamics in interacting tipping elements of ecology and climate: Cascading dynamics in tipping elements. Royal Society Open Science. 2020;7(6). doi:10.1098/rsos.200599' apa: 'Klose, A. K., Karle, V., Winkelmann, R., & Donges, J. F. (2020). Emergence of cascading dynamics in interacting tipping elements of ecology and climate: Cascading dynamics in tipping elements. Royal Society Open Science. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200599' chicago: 'Klose, Ann Kristin, Volker Karle, Ricarda Winkelmann, and Jonathan F. Donges. “Emergence of Cascading Dynamics in Interacting Tipping Elements of Ecology and Climate: Cascading Dynamics in Tipping Elements.” Royal Society Open Science. The Royal Society, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200599.' ieee: 'A. K. Klose, V. Karle, R. Winkelmann, and J. F. Donges, “Emergence of cascading dynamics in interacting tipping elements of ecology and climate: Cascading dynamics in tipping elements,” Royal Society Open Science, vol. 7, no. 6. The Royal Society, 2020.' ista: 'Klose AK, Karle V, Winkelmann R, Donges JF. 2020. Emergence of cascading dynamics in interacting tipping elements of ecology and climate: Cascading dynamics in tipping elements. Royal Society Open Science. 7(6), 200599.' mla: 'Klose, Ann Kristin, et al. “Emergence of Cascading Dynamics in Interacting Tipping Elements of Ecology and Climate: Cascading Dynamics in Tipping Elements.” Royal Society Open Science, vol. 7, no. 6, 200599, The Royal Society, 2020, doi:10.1098/rsos.200599.' short: A.K. Klose, V. Karle, R. Winkelmann, J.F. Donges, Royal Society Open Science 7 (2020). date_created: 2020-11-08T23:01:25Z date_published: 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-12T12:31:30Z day: '01' ddc: - '530' - '550' department: - _id: MiLe doi: 10.1098/rsos.200599 external_id: arxiv: - '1910.12042' isi: - '000545625200001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 5505c445de373bfd836eb4d3b48b1f37 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-11-09T09:07:11Z date_updated: 2020-11-09T09:07:11Z file_id: '8748' file_name: 2020_RoyalSocOpenScience_Klose.pdf file_size: 1611485 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-11-09T09:07:11Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 7' isi: 1 issue: '6' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Royal Society Open Science publication_identifier: eissn: - '20545703' publication_status: published publisher: The Royal Society quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Emergence of cascading dynamics in interacting tipping elements of ecology and climate: Cascading dynamics in tipping elements' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 7 year: '2020' ...