Experimental realization of a long-range antiferromagnet in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms

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العنوان: Experimental realization of a long-range antiferromagnet in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms
المؤلفون: Mazurenko, Anton, Chiu, Christie S., Ji, Geoffrey, Parsons, Maxwell F., Kan��sz-Nagy, M��rton, Schmidt, Richard, Grusdt, Fabian, Demler, Eugene, Greif, Daniel, Greiner, Markus
سنة النشر: 2016
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas), FOS: Physical sciences, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
الوصف: Many exotic phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems emerge from the interplay between spin and motional degrees of freedom. For example, doping an antiferromagnet gives rise to interesting phases including pseudogap states and high-temperature superconductors. A promising route towards achieving a complete understanding of these materials begins with analytic and computational analysis of simplified models. Quantum simulation has recently emerged as a complementary approach towards understanding these models. Ultracold fermions in optical lattices offer the potential to answer open questions on the low-temperature regime of the doped Hubbard model, which is thought to capture essential aspects of the cuprate superconductor phase diagram but is numerically intractable in that parameter regime. A new perspective is afforded by quantum gas microscopy of fermions, which allows readout of magnetic correlations at the site-resolved level. Here we report the realization of an antiferromagnet in a repulsively interacting Fermi gas on a 2D square lattice of approximately 80 sites. Using site-resolved imaging, we detect (finite-size) antiferromagnetic long-range order (LRO) through the development of a peak in the spin structure factor and the divergence of the correlation length that reaches the size of the system. At our lowest temperature of T/t = 0.25(2) we find strong order across the entire sample. Our experimental platform enables doping away from half filling, where pseudogap states and stripe ordering are expected, but theoretical methods become numerically intractable. In this regime we find that the antiferromagnetic LRO persists to hole dopings of about 15%, providing a guideline for computational methods. Our results demonstrate that quantum gas microscopy of ultracold fermions in optical lattices can now address open questions on the low-temperature Hubbard model.
15 pages, 9 figures
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d31d948e70c3edb3ff813eb655f601a0
http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08436
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....d31d948e70c3edb3ff813eb655f601a0
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE