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Chomaz L, Ferrier-Barbut I, Ferlaino F, Laburthe-Tolra B, Lev BL, Pfau T. Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2022; 86:026401. [PMID: 36583342 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aca814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Since the achievement of quantum degeneracy in gases of chromium atoms in 2004, the experimental investigation of ultracold gases made of highly magnetic atoms has blossomed. The field has yielded the observation of many unprecedented phenomena, in particular those in which long-range and anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs) play a crucial role. In this review, we aim to present the aspects of the magnetic quantum-gas platform that make it unique for exploring ultracold and quantum physics as well as to give a thorough overview of experimental achievements. Highly magnetic atoms distinguish themselves by the fact that their electronic ground-state configuration possesses a large electronic total angular momentum. This results in a large magnetic moment and a rich electronic transition spectrum. Such transitions are useful for cooling, trapping, and manipulating these atoms. The complex atomic structure and large dipolar moments of these atoms also lead to a dense spectrum of resonances in their two-body scattering behaviour. These resonances can be used to control the interatomic interactions and, in particular, the relative importance of contact over dipolar interactions. These features provide exquisite control knobs for exploring the few- and many-body physics of dipolar quantum gases. The study of dipolar effects in magnetic quantum gases has covered various few-body phenomena that are based on elastic and inelastic anisotropic scattering. Various many-body effects have also been demonstrated. These affect both the shape, stability, dynamics, and excitations of fully polarised repulsive Bose or Fermi gases. Beyond the mean-field instability, strong dipolar interactions competing with slightly weaker contact interactions between magnetic bosons yield new quantum-stabilised states, among which are self-bound droplets, droplet assemblies, and supersolids. Dipolar interactions also deeply affect the physics of atomic gases with an internal degree of freedom as these interactions intrinsically couple spin and atomic motion. Finally, long-range dipolar interactions can stabilise strongly correlated excited states of 1D gases and also impact the physics of lattice-confined systems, both at the spin-polarised level (Hubbard models with off-site interactions) and at the spinful level (XYZ models). In the present manuscript, we aim to provide an extensive overview of the various related experimental achievements up to the present.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lauriane Chomaz
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
- Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 91127 Palaiseau, France
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
- CNRS, UMR 7538, LPL, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
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- Departments of Physics and Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States of America
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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Mambretti F, Martinelli M, Civillini F, Bertoletti M, Riva S, Manini N, Galli DE, Pini D. Low-temperature ordering of the dimer phase of a two-dimensional model of core-softened particles. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:044602. [PMID: 34781531 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.044602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Purely pairwise interactions of the core-softened type, i.e., featuring a soft repulsion followed by a hard-core interaction at shorter distance, give rise to nontrivial equilibrium structures entirely different from the standard close packing of spheres. In particular, in a suitable low-temperature region of their phase diagram, such interactions are well known to favor a transition from a fluid to a cluster crystal. The residual mutual interaction between individual clusters can lead to the formation of patterns of their reciprocal orientations. In this work, we investigate two examples of such models in two dimensions, at the density most appropriate to the dimer phase, whereby clusters consist of just two particles, studying them with optimization techniques and Monte Carlo simulations. We focus on the dimer crystal, and unveil a second phase transition at extremely low temperature. This transition leads from a triangular dimer lattice with randomly disordered dimer orientations at high temperature to a reduced-symmetry ground state with nematic orientational order and a slightly distorted structure characterized by a centered-rectangular lattice at low temperature.
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- F Mambretti
- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy.,Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padua, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica "Aldo Pontremoli," via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Mambretti F, Molinelli S, Pini D, Bertaina G, Galli DE. Emergence of an Ising critical regime in the clustering of one-dimensional soft matter revealed through string variables. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:042134. [PMID: 33212654 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.042134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Soft matter systems are renowned for being able to display complex emerging phenomena such as clustering phases. Recently, a surprising quantum phase transition has been revealed in a one-dimensional (1D) system composed of bosons interacting via a pairwise soft potential in the continuum. It was shown that the spatial coordinates undergoing two-particle clustering could be mapped into quantum spin variables of a 1D transverse Ising model. In this work we investigate the manifestation of an analogous critical phenomenon in 1D classical fluids of soft particles in the continuum. In particular, we study the low-temperature behavior of three different classical models of 1D soft matter, whose interparticle interactions allow for clustering. The same string variables highlight that, at the commensurate density for the two-particle cluster phase, the peculiar pairing of neighboring soft particles can be nontrivially mapped onto a 1D discrete classical Ising model. We also observe a related phenomenon, namely the presence of an anomalous peak in the low-temperature specific heat, thus indicating the emergence of Schottky phenomenology in a nonmagnetic fluid.
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- F Mambretti
- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy.,Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, I-10135 Torino, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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Natale G, van Bijnen RMW, Patscheider A, Petter D, Mark MJ, Chomaz L, Ferlaino F. Excitation Spectrum of a Trapped Dipolar Supersolid and Its Experimental Evidence. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:050402. [PMID: 31491290 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.050402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We study the spectrum of elementary excitations of a dipolar Bose gas in a three-dimensional anisotropic trap across the superfluid-supersolid phase transition. Theoretically, we show that, when entering the supersolid phase, two distinct excitation branches appear, respectively associated with dominantly crystal and superfluid excitations. These results confirm infinite-system predictions, showing that finite-size effects play only a small qualitative role, and connect the two branches to the simultaneous occurrence of crystal and superfluid orders. Experimentally, we probe compressional excitations in an Er quantum gas across the phase diagram. While in the Bose-Einstein condensate regime the system exhibits an ordinary quadrupole oscillation, in the supersolid regime we observe a striking two-frequency response of the system, related to the two spontaneously broken symmetries.
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- G Natale
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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