TY - JOUR
AU - Andreas Kruckenhauser
AU - Lukas Sieberer
AU - William Tobias
AU - Kyle Matsuda
AU - Luigi De Marco
AU - Jun-Ru Li
AU - Giacomo Valtolina
AU - Ana Maria Rey
AU - Jun Ye
AU - Mikhail Baranov
AU - Peter Zoller
AB - We design dipolar quantum many-body Hamiltonians that will facilitate the realization of exotic quantum phases under current experimental conditions achieved for polar molecules. The main idea is to modulate both single-body potential barriers and two-body dipolar interactions on a spatial scale of tens of nanometers to strongly enhance energy scales and, therefore, relax temperature requirements for observing new quantum phases of engineered many-body systems. We consider and compare two approaches. In the first, nanoscale barriers are generated with standing wave optical light fields exploiting optical nonlinearities. In the second, static electric field gradients in combination with microwave dressing are used to write nanostructured spatial patterns on the induced electric dipole moments, and thus dipolar interactions. We study the formation of inter-layer and interface bound states of molecules in these configurations, and provide detailed estimates for binding energies and expected losses for present experimental setups.
BT - Physical Review A
DA - 2020-08
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.023320
N2 - We design dipolar quantum many-body Hamiltonians that will facilitate the realization of exotic quantum phases under current experimental conditions achieved for polar molecules. The main idea is to modulate both single-body potential barriers and two-body dipolar interactions on a spatial scale of tens of nanometers to strongly enhance energy scales and, therefore, relax temperature requirements for observing new quantum phases of engineered many-body systems. We consider and compare two approaches. In the first, nanoscale barriers are generated with standing wave optical light fields exploiting optical nonlinearities. In the second, static electric field gradients in combination with microwave dressing are used to write nanostructured spatial patterns on the induced electric dipole moments, and thus dipolar interactions. We study the formation of inter-layer and interface bound states of molecules in these configurations, and provide detailed estimates for binding energies and expected losses for present experimental setups.
PY - 2020
SE - 023320
EP - 023320
T2 - Physical Review A
TI - Quantum Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Polar Molecules: Nanostructured Potential Barriers and Interactions
UR - https://journals.aps.org/pra/accepted/2f075N51Aba1ad1728ec91912e8cab77aa01bb6db
VL - 102
ER -