Dynamical preparation of stripe states in spin-orbit-coupled gases

Cabedo, J. and Claramunt, J. and Celi, A. (2021) Dynamical preparation of stripe states in spin-orbit-coupled gases. Physical review a, 104 (3). ISSN 1050-2947

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Abstract

In spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, spin-changing collisions are a remarkable proxy to coherently realize macroscopic many-body quantum states. These processes have been, e.g., exploited to generate entanglement, to study dynamical quantum phase transitions, and proposed for realizing nematic phases in atomic condensates. In the same systems dressed by Raman beams, the coupling between spin and momentum induces a spin dependence in the scattering processes taking place in the gas. Here we show that, at weak couplings, such modulation of the collisions leads to an effective Hamiltonian which is equivalent to the one of an artificial spinor gas with spin-changing collisions that are tunable with the Raman intensity. By exploiting this dressed-basis description, we propose a robust protocol to coherently drive the spin-orbit-coupled condensate into the ferromagnetic stripe phase via crossing a quantum phase transition of the effective low-energy model in an excited state.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review a
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? EXCITED STATESFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALSFERROMAGNETISMPHASE TRANSITIONSQUANTUM ENTANGLEMENTSTATISTICAL MECHANICSATOMIC CONDENSATESBOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATESMANY BODYNEMATIC PHASISQUANTUM STATEQUANTUM-PHASE TRANSITIONSCATTERING PROCESSSPIN DEPENDENCESPIN ORBIT ??
ID Code:
161350
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Deposited On:
29 Oct 2021 10:00
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Yes
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Published
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19 Sep 2023 02:42