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arXiv:1005.3577 · Physical Review Letters

Time-of-Flight Imaging Method to Observe Signatures of Antiferromagnetically Ordered States of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Kensuke Inaba, Makoto Yamashita

Published Oct 19, 2010• 2 citations
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Abstract

We propose a simple method to detect the antiferromagnetic (AF) state of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice by combining a time-of-flight (TOF) imaging method and a Feshbach resonance. In this scheme, the nontrivial dynamics of fermionic atoms during the imaging process works as a probe with respect to the breaking of the translational symmetry in the AF state. Precise numerical simulations demonstrate that the characteristic oscillatory dynamics induced by the scattering process that transfers an AF ordering vector appears in TOF images, which can be easily observed experimentally.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.105.173002

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