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arXiv:1908.11603 · Universe

Driving Interactions Efficiently in a Composite Few-Body System

Alan Kahan, Thomás Fogarty, Jing Li, Thomas Busch

Published Oct 7, 2019• 9 citations
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Abstract

We study how to efficiently control an interacting few-body system consisting of three harmonically trapped bosons. Specifically, we investigate the process of modulating the inter-particle interactions to drive an initially non-interacting state to a strongly interacting one, which is an eigenstate of a chosen Hamiltonian. We also show that for unbalanced subsystems, where one can individually control the different inter- and intra-species interactions, complex dynamics originate when the symmetry of the ground state is broken by phase separation. However, as driving the dynamics too quickly can result in unwanted excitations of the final state, we optimize the driven processes using shortcuts to adiabaticity, which are designed to reduce these excitations at the end of the interaction ramp, ensuring that the target eigenstate is reached.

DOI
10.3390/universe5100207

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The nonadiabatic dynamics of a many-body system driven through a quantum critical point can be controlled using counterdiabatic driving, where the formation of excitations is suppressed by assisting the dynamics with auxiliary multiple-body nonlocal interactions. We propose an alternative scheme which circumvents practical challenges to realize shortcuts to adiabaticity in mesoscopic systems by tailoring the functional form of the auxiliary counterdiabatic interactions. A driving scheme resorting in short-range few-body interactions is shown to generate an effectively adiabatic dynamics.
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Collective bosonic excitations are a fascinating aspect of broken-symmetry correlated phases. A wealth of such phases emerged in tailored moiré heterostructures, where, in addition, new direct knobs of control exist. Our work explores how the associated collective bosonic modes can be directly manipulated and amplified via parametric driving. As we show, parametric driving is closely related to many-body quantum geometry, as it reveals information about the fidelity susceptibility of the underlying ground state with respect to changes in the control knobs of the interacting system. The parametric response hinges on the tunability of the hierarchy of competing ground states, which we show manifests as squeezing of the bosonic mode vacuum. Furthermore, parametrically-driven modes can produce a high-amplitude modulation in the system that could be easily observed, and could also be used to produce a new non-equilibrium prethermal states with different symmetries. We derive a general framework for parametric amplification of collective bosonic modes in broken-symmetry phases, and provide case-studies of current relevance. Elucidating the connection between the dynamics of these excitations and microscopic electronic observables is key to harnessing their immense potential.