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arXiv:1207.4915 · New Journal of Physics

Spinons and holons with polarized photons in a nonlinear waveguide

Ming-Xia Huo, Dimitris G. Angelakis, L. C. Kwek

Published Jul 30, 2012• 3 citations
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Abstract

We show that the spin-charge separation predicted for correlated fermions in one dimension, could be observed using polarized photons propagating in a nonlinear optical waveguide. Using coherent control techniques and employing a cold atom ensemble interacting with the photons, large nonlinearities in the single photon level can be achieved. We show that the latter can allow for the simulation of a strongly interacting gas, which is made of stationary dark-state polaritons of two species and then shown to form a Luttinger liquid of effective fermions for the right regime of interactions. The system can be tuned optically to the relevant regime where the spin-charge separation is expected to occur. The characteristic features of the separation as demonstrated in the different spin and charge densities and velocities can be efficiently detected via optical measurements of the emitted photons with current optical technologies.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/075027

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Interacting fermions that are confined to 1D can only support collective excitations and are thus governed by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory, in which collective excitations decouple into charge and spin modes instead of particle-like excitations. Over the course of this work we have realized analog quantum simulations of the TLL model using a 6-Li atomic system. By taking advantage of a magnetic Feshbach resonance we readily tune the interactions of the sample so that we can transition from a non-interacting gas to either a strongly repulsive or a strongly attractive system, and probe the dynamics of the system within these regimes. By using low-momentum Bragg spectroscopy we were able to measure and characterize the spin-charge separation of a TLL. Our work also presents the first observation of spin and charge density waves that are separately excited from the ground state through a Bragg perturbation. The observed dynamical response function of the spin and charge excitations remarkably captures both the universal behavior of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid, as well as the non-linear effects related to the band curvature effect in the charge sector and the back-scattering interaction effect in the spin sector. Up to now considering higher-order corrections to the linear dispersion in either the spin or charge degrees of freedom had remained out of reach for both theory and experiment. In addition to this, we also realized a spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid and characterized its temperature crossover between the coherent and incoherent regimes. On the attractive interactions regime we observe an inversion of spin-charge separation, and we also have seen preliminary signatures of confinement-induced 1D bound states.
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