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Within the framework of Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, subject integration is one possible solution for the introduction of meaningful digitalization and digitization in schools. This process incorporates that any school subject can be taught with digital support, informatics (computer) classes can be contextualized, and the gap between 'serious informatics' and 'digital literacy' can be minimized. The present paper details how three traditional Grade 3 tasks can be solved in spreadsheets, what skills, competencies, and computer science knowledge of both teachers and students can be developed. The solutions also reveal that analysing, understanding, planning, and discussing tasks is as important as the activity in the spreadsheets, which process plays a crucial role in the preparation of students for their future jobs., Comment: 16 pages, 17 colour figures. Proceedings of the EuSpRIG 2024 Conference 'Spreadsheet Productivity & Risks' ISBN : 978-1-905404-59-9

An exact Jordan-Wigner type of transformation is presented in 1D connecting spin-1/2 operators to spinful canonical Fermi operators. The transformation contains two free parameters allowing a broad interconnection possibility in between spin models and fermionic models containing spinful Fermi operators., Comment: 9 pages

Based on a positive semidefinite operator technique, exact ground states are deduced for the non-integrable conducting polymers possessing pentagon type of unit cell. The study is done in the presence of many-body spin-orbit interaction (SOI), local and nearest neighbor Coulomb repulsion (NNCR) and presence of external $E$ electric and $B$ magnetic fields, such that the effects of $B$ on both orbital and spin degrees of freedom is considered. The SOI, NNCR, and presented external field configurations presence in exact conducting polymer ground states is a novelty, so the development of the technique for the treatment possibility of such strongly correlated cases is presented in details. The deduced ground states show a broad spectrum of physical characteristics ranging from charge density waves, metal-insulator transitions, to interesting external field driven effects as e.g. modification possibility of a static charge distribution by a static external magnetic field., Comment: 47 pages, 2 figures

We describe temporally correlated noise processes that influence the idle evolution of a superconducting transmon qubit. To model the composite qubit-environment system we use quantum circuit theory, and we show how a circuit Hamiltonian can be derived for transverse noise affecting the qubit. Based on the time-convolutionless projection operator method, we construct a time-local master equation which, when transformed to its canonical Lindblad form, exhbitis a decay rate that is negative at all times, corresponding to eternally non-Markovian dynamics. By expressing the solution of the master equation in the Kraus representation, we identify two crucial non-Markovian phenomena: periodic revivals of coherence, and the appearance of additional frequencies far from the qubit frequency in the precession of the qubit state. When a single qubit gate acts on the qubit state, these extra frequency terms rotate undesirably and they effectively act as the memory of the state prior to the rotation around the Bloch sphere., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures

Flat bands are of extreme interest in a broad spectrum of fields since given by their high degeneracy, a small perturbation introduced in the system is able to push the ground state in the direction of an ordered phase of interest. Hence the flat band engineering in real materials attracts huge attention. However, manufacturing a flat band represents a difficult task because its appearance in a real system is connected to rigid mathematical conditions relating a part of Hamiltonian parameters. Consequently, whenever a flat band is desired to be manufactured, these Hamiltonian parameters must be tuned exactly to the values fixed by these rigid mathematical conditions. Here we demonstrate that taking the many-body spin-orbit interaction (SOI) into account -- which can be continuously tuned e.g. by external electric fields --, these rigid mathematical conditions can be substantially relaxed. On this line we show that a $\sim 20-30 \%$ variation in the Hamiltonian parameters rigidly fixed by the flat band conditions can also lead to flat bands in the same or in a bit displaced position on the energy axis. This percentage can even increase to $\sim 80 \%$ in the presence of an external magnetic field. The study is made in the case of conducting polymers. These systems are relevant not only because they have broad application possibilities, but also because they can be used to present the mathematical background of the flat band conditions in full generality, in a concise, clear and understandable manner applicable everywhere in itinerant systems.

The ferromagnetism of Au nanograins is analysed based on a two-dimensional itinerant lattice model with on-site Coulomb repulsion, many-body spin-orbit interactions, and holding two hybridized bands, one correlated and one uncorrelated. Using periodic boundary conditions in both directions, an exact ferromagnetic ground state is deduced for this non-integrable system by applying special techniques based on positive semidefinite operators.

Recently defect production was investigated during non-unitary dynamics due to non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. By ramping up the non-Hermitian coupling linearly in time through an exceptional point, defects are produced in much the same way as approaching a Hermitian critical point. A generalized Kibble--Zurek scaling accounted for the ensuing scaling of the defect density in terms of the speed of the drive and the corresponding critical exponents. Here we extend this setting by adding the recycling term and considering the full Lindbladian time evolution of the problem with quantum jumps. We find that by linearly ramping up the environmental coupling in time, and going beyond the steady-state solution of the Liouvillian, the defect density scales linearly with the speed of the drive for all cases. This scaling is unaffected by the presence of exceptional points of the Liouvillian, which can show up in the transient states. By using a variant of the adiabatic perturbation theory, the scaling of the defect density is determined exactly from a set of algebraic equations. Our study indicates the distinct sensitivity of the Lindbladian time evolution to exceptional points corresponding to steady states and transient states., Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures

We investigate quantum quenches and the Loschmidt echo in the two dimensional, three band $\alpha-T_3$ model, a close descendant of the dice lattice. By adding a chemical potential to the central site, the integral of the Berry curvature of the bands in different valleys is continously tunable by the ratio of the hopping integrals between the sublattices. By investigating one and two filled bands, we find that dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT), i.e. nonanalytical temporal behaviour in the rate function of the return amplitude, occurs for a certain range of parameters, independent of the band filling. By focusing on the effective low energy description of the model, we find that DQPTs happen not only in the time derivative of the rate function, which is a common feature in two dimensional models, but in the rate function itself. This feature is not related to the change of topological properties of the system during the quench, but rather follows from population inversion for all momenta. This is accompanied by the appearance of dynamical vortices in the time-momentum space of the Pancharatnam geometric phase. The positions of the vortices form an infinite vortex ladder, i.e. a macroscopic phase structure, which allows us to identify the dynamical phases that are separated by the DQPT., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures

A 2D square, two-bands, strongly correlated and non-integrable system is analysed exactly in the presence of many-body spin-orbit interactions via the method of Positive Semidefinite Operators. The deduced exact ground states in the high concentration limit are strongly entangled, and given by the spin-orbit coupling are ferromagnetic and present an enhanced carrier mobility, which substantially differs for different spin projections. The described state emerges in a restricted parameter space region, which however is clearly accessible experimentally. The exact solutions are provided via the solution of a matching system of equations containing 74 coupled, non-linear and complex algebraic equations. In our knowledge, other exact results for 2D interacting systems with spin-orbit interactions are not present in the literature.

We analyze, in exact terms, multiband 2D itinerant correlated fermionic systems with many-body spin-orbit interactions, and in-plane external magnetic fields. Even if such systems with broad applicability in leading technologies are non-integrable, we set up an exact solution procedure for them, which is described in detail. Casting the Hamiltonian in positive semidefinite form, the technique leads to the ground state and also characterizes the low lying excitation spectrum.

We investigate the light-matter interaction between the edge state of a 2D topological insulator and quantum electromagnetic field. The interaction originates from the Zeeman term between the spin of the edge electrons and the magnetic field, and also through the Peierls substition. The continuous U(1) symmetry of the system in the absence of the vector potential reduces into discrete time reversal symmetry in the presence of the vector potential. Due to light-matter interaction, a superradiant ground state emerges with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry, accompanied by a net photocurrent along the edge, generated by the vector potential of the quantum light. The spectral function of the photon field reveals polariton continuum excitations above a threshold energy, corresponding to a Higgs mode and another low energy collective mode due to the phase fluctuations of the ground state. This collective mode is a zero energy Goldstone mode that arises from the broken continuous U(1) symmetry in the absence of the vector potential, and acquires finite a gap in the presence of the vector potential. The optical conductivity of the edge electrons is calculated using the random phase approximation by taking the fluctuation of the order parameter into account. It contains the collective modes as a Drude peak with renormalized effective mass, which moves to finite frequencies as the symmetry of the system is lowered by the inclusion of the vector potential., Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures

It is known that a system which exhibits a half filled lowest flat band and the localized one-particle Wannier states on the flat band satisfy the connectivity conditions, is always ferromagnetic. Without the connectivity conditions on the flat band, the system is non-magnetic. We show that this is not always true. The reason is connected to a peculiar behavior of the band situated just above the flat band., Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures

We model conducting pentagon chains with a multi orbital Hubbard model and prove that well below half filling exact ferromagnetic ground states appear. The rigorous method we use is based on the transformation of original hamiltonian into positive semidefinite form. This technique is independent of the spatial dimesion and does not require integrability of the model. The obtained ferromagnetism is connected to dispersionless bands but in a much broader sense than flat band ferromagnetism requires, where on every site a Hubbard term is present. In our case only a small percentage of, even randomly distributed, sites are only interacting., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures

We consider a pentagon chain described by a Hubbard type of model considered under periodic boundary conditions. The system i) is placed in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the cells, and ii) is in a site selective manner under the action of an external electric potential. In these conditions we show in a non-approximated manner that the physical properties of the system can be qualitatively changed. The changes cause first strong modifications of the band structure of the system created by the one-particle part of the Hamiltonian, and second, considerably redraw the emergence domains of ordered phases. We exemplify this by deducing ferromagnetic ground states in the presence of external fields in two different domains of the parameter space., Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures

Time-periodic perturbations due to classical electromagnetic fields are useful to engineer the topological properties of matter using the Floquet theory. Here we investigate the effect of quantized electromagnetic fields by focusing on the quantized light-matter interaction on the edge state of a quantum spin-Hall insulator. A Dicke-type superradiant phase transition occurs at arbitrary weak coupling, the electronic spectrum acquires a finite gap and the resulting ground state manifold is topological with Chern number $\pm 1$. When the total number of excitations is conserved, a photocurrent is generated along the edge, being pseudo-quantized as $\omega\ln(1/\omega)$ in the low frequency limit, and decaying as $1/\omega$ for high frequencies with $\omega$ the photon frequency. The photon spectral function exhibits a clean Goldstone mode, a Higgs like collective mode at the optical gap and the polariton continuum., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, revised version

The compound SmB$_6$ is a Kondo Insulator, where the lowest-energy bulk electronic excitations are spin excitons. It also has surface states that are subjected to strong spin-orbit coupling. It has been suggested that SmB$_6$ is also a topological insulator. Here we show that, despite the absence of time-reversal symmetry breaking and the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling, the chiral spin texture of the Weyl cone is not completely protected. In particular, we show that the spin-exciton mediated scattering produces features in the surface electronic spectrum at energies separated from the surface Fermi energy by the spin-exciton energy. Despite the features being far removed from the surface Fermi energy, they are extremely temperature dependent. The temperature variation occurs over a characteristic scale determined by the dispersion of the spin exciton. The structures may be observed by electron spectroscopy at low temperatures., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures

Working in a subspace with dimensionality much smaller than the dimension of the full Hilbert space, we deduce exact 4-particle ground states in 2D samples containing hexagonal repeat units and described by Hubbard type of models. The procedure identifies first a small subspace ${\cal{S}}$ in which the ground state $|\Psi_g\rangle$ is placed, than deduces $|\Psi_g\rangle$ by exact diagonalization in ${\cal{S}}$. The small subspace is obtained by the repeated application of the Hamiltonian $\hat H$ on a carefully chosen starting wave vector describing the most interacting particle configuration, and the wave vectors resulting from the application of $\hat H$, till the obtained system of equations closes in itself. The procedure which can be applied in principle at fixed but arbitrary system size and number of particles, is interesting by its own since provides exact information for the numerical approximation techniques which use a similar strategy, but apply non-complete basis for ${\cal{S}}$. The diagonalization inside ${\cal{S}}$ provides an incomplete image about the low lying part of the excitation spectrum, but provides the exact $|\Psi_g\rangle$. Once the exact ground state is obtained, its properties can be easily analyzed. The $|\Psi_g\rangle$ is found always as a singlet state whose energy, interestingly, saturates in the $U \to \infty$ limit. The unapproximated results show that the emergence probabilities of different particle configurations in the ground state present "Zittern" (trembling) characteristics which are absent in 2D square Hubbard systems. Consequently, the manifestation of the local Coulomb repulsion in 2D square and honeycomb types of systems presents differences, which can be a real source in the differences in the many-body behavior., Comment: 35 pages, 21 figures

For a general class of conducting polymers with arbitrary large unit cell and different on-site Coulomb repulsion values on different type of sites, I demonstrate in exact terms the emergence possibility of an upper, interaction created "effective" flat band. This last appears as a consequence of a kinetic energy quench accompanied by a strong interaction energy decrease, and leads to a non-saturated ferromagnetic state. This ordered state clearly differs from the known flat-band ferromagnetism. This is because it emerges in a system without bare flat bands, requires inhomogeneous on-site Coulomb repulsions values, and possesses non-zero lower interaction limits at the emergence of the ordered phase., Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures

Exact static nondegenerate stripe and checkerboard ground states are obtained in a two-dimensional generalized periodic Anderson model, for a broad concentration range below quarter filling. The random droplet states, also present in the degenerate ground state, are eliminated by extending the Hamiltonian with terms of different physical origin such as dimerization, periodic charge displacements, density waves, or distorsion lines., Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures

We construct a class of exact ground states for correlated electrons on pentagon chains in the high density region and discuss their physical properties. In this procedure the Hamiltonian is first cast in a positive semidefinite form using composite operators as a linear combination of creation operators acting on the sites of finite blocks. In the same step, the interaction is also transformed to obtain terms which require for their minimum eigenvalue zero at least one electron on each site. The transformed Hamiltonian matches the original Hamiltonian through a nonlinear system of equations whose solutions place the deduced ground states in restricted regions of the parameter space. In the second step, nonlocal product wave functions in position space are constructed. They are proven to be unique ground states which describe non-saturated ferromagnetic and correlated half metallic states. These solutions emerge when the strength of the Hubbard interaction $U_i$ is site dependent inside the unit cell. In the deduced phases, the interactions tune the bare dispersive band structure such to develop an effective upper flat band. We show that this band flattening effect emerges for a broader class of chains and is not restricted to pentagon chains. For the characterization of the deduced solutions, uniqueness proofs, exact ground state expectation values for long-range hopping amplitudes and correlation functions are also calculated. The study of physical reasons which lead to the appearance of ferromagnetism has revealed a new mechanism for the emergence of an ordered phase, described here in details (because of lack of space see the continuation in the paper)., Comment: 75 pages, 9 figures