Engineering dynamical phase diagrams with driven lattices in spinor gases

J. O. Austin-Harris, Z. N. Hardesty-Shaw, Q. Guan, C. Binegar, D. Blume, R. J. Lewis-Swan, Y. Liu

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that well-designed driven lattices are versatile tools to simultaneously tune multiple key parameters (spin-dependent interactions, spinor phase, and quadratic Zeeman energy) for manipulating phase diagrams of spinor gases with negligible heating and atom losses. This opens avenues for studying engineered Hamiltonians and dynamical phase transitions. Modulation-induced harmonics generate progressively narrower separatrices at driving-frequency-determined higher magnetic-field strengths. This technique enables exploration of multiple, previously inaccessible parameter regimes of spinor dynamics (notably high magnetic-field strengths, tunable spinor phase, and individually tunable spin-preserving and spin-changing collisions) and widens the range of cold-atom applications, e.g., in quantum sensing and studies of nonequilibrium dynamics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number043309
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume109
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2024
Externally publishedYes

Funding

D.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grant No. PHY-2110158. R.J.L-S. acknowledges support from NSF through Grant No. PHY-2110052 and the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. J.O.A-H., Z.N.H-S., C.B., and Y.L. acknowledge support from the Noble Foundation and NSF through Grant No. PHY-2207777.

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