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P带玻色子动力学滑动相超流体的观测

Observation of a dynamical sliding phase superfluid with P-band bosons

Linxiao Niu, Shengjie Jin, Xuzong Chen, Xiaopeng Li, Xiaoji Zhou

摘要:

在耦合XY模型的背景下,滑动相已经被长期寻求,因为它们与各种多体系统如层状超导体、独立式液晶膜和阳离子脂质-DNA复合物有关。在这里,我们报告的动态滑动相超流体出现在一个非平衡设置从量子动力学的三维超冷原子气体加载到一个一维光晶格的P-带的观察。采用一种快捷的加载方法,在很短的时间内使原子以零准动量进入P带。该系统可以被看作是一系列的“煎饼”形状的原子样品。对于这个远离平衡的系统,我们发现了一个寿命约为几十毫秒的中间时间窗口,其中原子系综在煎饼方向上表现出强大的超流相相干性,但在晶格方向上没有相干性,这意味着动态滑动相超流。在我们提出的唯象理论中,滑动相的出现归因于跨维能量转移机制,这与实验测量结果一致。该实验为通过在光晶格中产生高频激发来寻找奇异的动力学相开辟了一个新的途径。

英文摘要:

Sliding phases have been long sought after in the context of coupled XY-models, as they are of relevance to various many-body systems such as layered superconductors, freestanding liquid-crystal films, and cationic lipid-DNA complexes. Here we report an observation of a dynamical sliding phase superfluid that emerges in a nonequilibrium setting from the quantum dynamics of a three-dimensional ultracold atomic gas loaded into the P-band of a one-dimensional optical lattice. A shortcut loading method is used to transfer atoms into the P-band at zero quasimomentum within a very short time duration. The system can be viewed as a series of "pancake"-shaped atomic samples. For this far-out-of-equilibrium system, we find an intermediate time window with a lifetime around tens of milliseconds, where the atomic ensemble exhibits robust superfluid phase coherence in the pancake directions, but no coherence in the lattice direction, which implies a dynamical sliding phase superfluid. The emergence of the sliding phase is attributed to a mechanism of cross-dimensional energy transfer in our proposed phenomenological theory, which is consistent with experimental measurements. This experiment potentially opens up a novel venue to search for exotic dynamical phases by creating high-band excitations in optical lattices.

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