Mahmud, K.
and Tiesinga, E.
(2013),
Dynamics of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice: spin mixing, quantum phase revival spectroscopy and effective three-body interactions, Physical Review A, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.023602, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=913833
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Dynamics of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice: spin mixing, quantum phase revival spectroscopy and effective three-body interactions
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We study the dynamics of spin-1 atoms in a periodic optical-lattice potential and an external magnetic field in a quantum quench scenario where we start from a superfluid ground state in a shallow lattice potential and suddenly raise the lattice depth. The time evolution of the non-equilibrium state, thus created, shows collective collapse-and-revival oscillations of matter-wave coherence as well as oscillations in the spin populations. We show that the complex pattern of these two types of oscillations reveals details about the superfluid and magnetic properties of the initial many-body ground state. Furthermore, we show that the strengths of the spin-dependent and spin-independent atom-atom interactions can be deduced from the observations. The Hamiltonian that describes the physics of the final deep lattice not only contains two-body interactions but also effective multi-body interactions, which arise due to virtual excitations to higher bands. We derive these effective spin-dependent three-body interaction parameters for spin-1 atoms and describe how spin-mixing is affected. Spinor atoms are unique in the sense that multi-body interactions are directly evident in the \it in-situ} number densities in addition to the momentum distributions. We treat both antiferromagnetic (e.g. $^23}$Na atoms) and ferromagnetic (e.g. $^87}$Rb and $^41}$K) condensates.Citation
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bose condensates, magnetism, ultra-cold atoms, dynamical evolution, effective interaction
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