Direct observation of incommensurate magnetism in Hubbard chains
Autor: | Joannis Koepsell, Christian Gross, Lode Pollet, Timon A. Hilker, Jacopo Nespolo, Guillaume Salomon, Jayadev Vijayan, Immanuel Bloch |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases Multidisciplinary Condensed matter physics Magnetism Heisenberg model Quantum simulator FOS: Physical sciences 01 natural sciences antiferromagnetic correlations Luttinger-liquid spin-correlation excitations model pair 010305 fluids & plasmas Delocalized electron Reciprocal lattice Magnetization Luttinger liquid Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) 0103 physical sciences Antiferromagnetism Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases 010306 general physics |
Zdroj: | Nature Nature (Lond.) 565 (2019): 56–60. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0778-7 info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Salomon, Guillaume; Koepsell, Joannis; Vijayan, Jayadev; Hilker, Timon A.; Nespolo, Jacopo; Pollet, Lode; Bloch, Immanuel; Gross, Christian/titolo:Direct observation of incommensurate magnetism in Hubbard chains/doi:10.1038%2Fs41586-018-0778-7/rivista:Nature (Lond.)/anno:2019/pagina_da:56/pagina_a:60/intervallo_pagine:56–60/volume:565 |
ISSN: | 1476-4687 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41586-018-0778-7 |
Popis: | The interplay between magnetism and doping is at the origin of exotic strongly correlated electronic phases and can lead to novel forms of magnetic ordering. One example is the emergence of incommensurate spin-density waves, which have wavevectors that do not belong to the reciprocal lattice. In one dimension this effect is a hallmark of Luttinger liquid theory, which also describes the low-energy physics of the Hubbard model1. Here we use a quantum simulator that uses ultracold fermions in an optical lattice2–8 to directly observe such incommensurate spin correlations in doped and spin-imbalanced Hubbard chains using fully spin- and density-resolved quantum gas microscopy. Doping is found to induce a linear change in the spin-density wavevector, in excellent agreement with predictions from Luttinger theory. For non-zero polarization we observe a reduction in the wavevector with magnetization, as expected from the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model in a magnetic field. We trace the microscopic-scale origin of these incommensurate correlations to holes, doublons (double occupancies) and excess spins, which act as delocalized domain walls for the antiferromagnetic order. In addition, by inducing interchain coupling we observe fundamentally different spin correlations around doublons and suppression of incommensurate magnetism at finite (low) temperature in the two-dimensional regime9. Our results demonstrate how access to the full counting statistics of all local degrees of freedom can be used to study fundamental phenomena in strongly correlated many-body physics. Direct observation of incommensurate spin correlations in doped and spin-imbalanced Hubbard chains confirms two fundamental predictions for Luttinger liquids and shows that such correlations are suppressed by interchain coupling. |
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