Tunable Single-Ion Anisotropy in Spin-1 Models Realized with Ultracold Atoms
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Author(s)
Chung, Woo Chang
de Hond, Julius
Xiang, Jinggang
Cruz-Colón, Enid
Ketterle, Wolfgang
Date Issued
April 2021
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
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Chung, Woo Chang, de Hond, Julius, Xiang, Jinggang, Cruz-Colón, Enid and Ketterle, Wolfgang. 2021. "Tunable Single-Ion Anisotropy in Spin-1 Models Realized with Ultracold Atoms." Physical Review Letters, 126 (16).
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Abstract
Mott insulator plateaus in optical lattices are a versatile platform to study spin physics. Using sites occupied by two bosons with an internal degree of freedom, we realize a uniaxial single-ion anisotropy term proportional to (S^{z})^{2} that plays an important role in stabilizing magnetism for low-dimensional magnetic materials. Here we explore nonequilibrium spin dynamics and observe a resonant effect in the spin alignment as a function of lattice depth when exchange coupling and on-site anisotropy are similar. Our results are supported by many-body numerical simulations and are captured by the analytical solution of a two-site model.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.163203
