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Adiabatic Preparation of Many-Body States in Optical Lattices

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Author(s)

James V. Porto, Anders Sorensen, Ehud Altman, Michael Gullans, Mikhail Lukin, Eugene Demler

Abstract

We analyze a technique for the preparation of low entropy many-body states of atoms in optical lattices based on adiabatic passage. In particular, we show that this method allows preparation of strongly correlated states as stable highest energy states of Hamiltonians that have trivial ground states. As an example, we analyze the generation of antiferromagnetically ordered states by adiabatic change of a staggered field acting on the spins of bosonic atoms with ferromagnetic interactions.
Citation
Physical Review A

Keywords

Bose-hubbard model, non-equilibrium dynamics, optical lattices, quantum magnetism, ultra-cold atoms

Citation

Porto, J. , Sorensen, A. , Altman, E. , Gullans, M. , Lukin, M. and Demler, E. (2010), Adiabatic Preparation of Many-Body States in Optical Lattices, Physical Review A, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.061603 (Accessed April 18, 2024)
Created June 22, 2010, Updated November 10, 2018