Far-from-Equilibrium Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Polar Molecules
Open Access
- 11 February 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 110 (7), 075301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.075301
Abstract
Recent theory has indicated how to emulate tunable models of quantum magnetism with ultracold polar molecules. Here we show that present molecule optical lattice experiments can accomplish three crucial goals for quantum emulation, despite currently being well below unit filling and not quantum degenerate. The first is to verify and benchmark the models proposed to describe these systems. The second is to prepare correlated and possibly useful states in well-understood regimes. The third is to explore many-body physics inaccessible to existing theoretical techniques. Our proposal relies on a nonequilibrium protocol that can be viewed either as Ramsey spectroscopy or an interaction quench. The proposal uses only routine experimental tools available in any ultracold molecule experiment. To obtain a global understanding of the behavior, we treat short times pertubatively, develop analytic techniques to treat the Ising interaction limit, and apply a time-dependent density matrix renormalization group to disordered systems with long range interactions. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.075301 © 2013 American Physical SocietyFunding Information
- National Science Foundation
- Army Research Office
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