Spin-gap spectroscopy in a bosonic flux ladder
| Autor: | Strinati, Marcello Calvanese, Gerbier, Fabrice, Mazza, Leonardo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | New J. Phys. 20, 015004 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1367-2630/aa9ca2 |
| Popis: | Ultracold bosonic atoms trapped in a two-leg ladder pierced by a magnetic field provide a minimal and quasi-one-dimensional instance to study the interplay between orbital magnetism and interactions. Using time-dependent matrix-product-states simulations, we investigate the properties of the so-called "Meissner" and "vortex" phases which appear in such system, focusing on experimentally accessible observables. We discuss how to experimentally monitor the phase transition, and show that the response to a modulation of the density imbalance between the two legs of the ladder is qualitatively different in the two phases. We argue that this technique can be used as a tool for many-body spectroscopy, allowing to quantitatively measure the spin gap in the Meissner phase. We finally discuss its experimental implementation Comment: 23 pages, 11 figures. Updated version after publication in New J. Phys |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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