Magnetic super-exchange with ultra cold atoms in spin dependent optical lattices
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Author(s)
Hucul, David (David Alexander)
Advisor(s)
Wolfgang Ketterle and David Pritchard.
Date Issued
2009
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The methods of atomic physics offer a unique opportunity to study strongly correlated many body systems. It is possible to confine BECs in periodic optical lattices to form an analog of a solid state system. The study of these cold atoms in optical lattice systems may prove a very useful testing ground for novel states of matter, testing fundamental condensed matter theory, and may help illuminate a possible connection between the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity and quantum magnetism. This thesis will focus on trapping cold bosonic atoms in spin dependent optical lattices to engineer a system that behaves according to the Hubbard model. By loading the atoms into a state dependent lattice, it may be possible to explore the full phase space of the Heisenberg model and see magnetic super exchange-driven magnetic ordering in a variety of lattice geometries. The aim of this thesis is primarily to explore some of the tools that may be needed accomplish this task.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2009.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68).
Subjects
Physics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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