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arXiv:2110.07169 · Physical Review Letters

Floquet Engineering Hz-Level Rabi Spectra in Shallow Optical Lattice Clock

Mo-Juan Yin, Xiaotong Lu, Ting Li, Jingjing Xia, Tao Wang, Xue‐Feng Zhang, Hong Chang

Published Feb 17, 2022• 35 citations
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Abstract

Quantum metrology with ultrahigh precision usually requires atoms prepared in an ultrastable environment with well-defined quantum states. Thus, in optical lattice clock systems deep lattice potentials are used to trap ultracold atoms. However, decoherence, induced by Raman scattering and higher order light shifts, can significantly be reduced if atomic clocks are realized in shallow optical lattices. On the other hand, in such lattices, tunneling among different sites can cause additional dephasing and strongly broadening of the Rabi spectrum. Here, in our experiment, we periodically drive a shallow ^{87}Sr optical lattice clock. Counterintuitively, shaking the system can deform the wide broad spectral line into a sharp peak with 5.4 Hz linewidth. With careful comparison between the theory and experiment, we demonstrate that the Rabi frequency and the Bloch bands can be tuned, simultaneously and independently. Our work not only provides a different idea for quantum metrology, such as building shallow optical lattice clock in outer space, but also paves the way for quantum simulation of new phases of matter by engineering exotic spin orbit couplings.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.128.073603

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Quantum metrology with ultrahigh precision usually requires atoms prepared in an ultrastable environment with well-defined quantum states. Thus, in optical lattice clock systems deep lattice potentials are used to trap ultracold atoms. However, decoherence, induced by Raman scattering and higher order light shifts, can significantly be reduced if atomic clocks are realized in shallow optical lattices. On the other hand, in such lattices, tunneling among different sites can cause additional dephasing and strongly broadening of the Rabi spectrum. Here, in our experiment, we periodically drive a shallow ^{87}Sr optical lattice clock. Counterintuitively, shaking the system can deform the wide broad spectral line into a sharp peak with 5.4 Hz linewidth. With careful comparison between the theory and experiment, we demonstrate that the Rabi frequency and the Bloch bands can be tuned, simultaneously and independently. Our work not only provides a different idea for quantum metrology, such as building shallow optical lattice clock in outer space, but also paves the way for quantum simulation of new phases of matter by engineering exotic spin orbit couplings.
The quantum metrology with ultra-high precision usually requires the atoms prepared in an ultra-stable environment with well-defined quantum states. Thus, the optical lattice clock system chooses deep lattice potential to trap the ultra-cold atoms. However, building atomic clock in shallow optical lattice can greatly reduce decoherence rate induced by Raman scattering as well as higher order light shift, but tunneling among the lattice sites will cause additional dephasing and strongly broadening of the Rabi spectrum. Here, we periodically drive the shallow 87^{87}87Sr optical lattice clock in the experiment. Counterintuitively, shaking the system can deform the wide broad spectral line into a sharp peak with 5.4Hz line-width. With careful comparison between the theory and experiment, we demonstrate the Rabi frequency and Bloch bands can be simultaneously and independently tuned by adjusting the driving frequency and amplitude. Our work not only provides a different idea for quantum metrology, such as building shallow optical lattice clock in outer space, but also paves the way for quantum simulation of new phase of matter, such as engineering exotic spin orbit coupling Hamiltonian.
We periodically modulate the lattice trapping potential of a 87 Sr optical clock to Floquet engineer the clock transition. In the context of atomic gases in lattices, Floquet engineering has been used to shape the dispersion and topology of Bloch quasi-energy bands. Differently from these previous works manipulating the external (spatial) quasi-energies, we target the internal atomic degrees of freedom. We shape Floquet spin quasi-energies and measure their resonance profiles with Rabi spectroscopy. We provide the spectroscopic sensitivity of each band by measuring the Fisher information and show that this is not depleted by the Floquet dynamical modulation. The demonstration that the internal degrees of freedom can be selectively engineered by manipulating the external degrees of freedom inaugurates a novel device with potential applications in metrology, sensing and quantum simulations.
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The present thesis is devoted to quantum simulation of strongly interacting systems of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices. It is a theoretical work which focuses on the possibility to employ strong time-periodic forcing for the coherent control of these system. This form of quantum engineering is called Floquet engineering. Experimentally, time-periodic forcing has been successfully applied to realize a variety of physical models and phenomena, especially in the regime of weak interactions. We describe two novel proposals for interesting phenomena in the regime of strong interactions that rely on lattice shaking: melting of a Mott-insulator into an excited-state superfluid via coherent coupling of Bloch bands and the creation of 1D lattice anyons. Furthermore, the role of multiphoton excitations in a driven lattice is analyzed since these processes can lead to unwanted heating and thereby impeding of successful Floquet engineering in the experiment. The introductory Chapter 1 gives an overview over the field of quantum simulations with ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices and describes the experimental progress that has been made in the recent years. In Chapter 2, Floquet theory is reviewed, which provides an excellent framework to deal with time-periodic Hamiltonians and which is the basis of the analysis presented in the following chapters. Chapter 3 deals with the proposal of coherently coupling Bloch bands of an optical lattice via resonant lattice shaking. In particular, the orbital-driven phase transition from a Mott insulating to a superfluid ground state is described in detail. In Chapter 4, a proposal of realizing 1D lattice anyons from strongly interacting bosons in a shaken and tilted lattice is worked out. Furthermore, Friedel oscillations are proposed to provide a measurable real-space signature for the anyonization. Finally, in Chapter 5 multiphoton excitations to higher Bloch bands are analyzed for the cases of a shaken and an amplitude-modulated lattice. The strength and the location of resonances, which are associated with heating, are described theoretically and numerically.
Simulating physics with large SU(N)\mathrm{SU}(N)SU(N) symmetry is one of the unique advantages of alkaline-earth-metal atoms. Introducing periodical driving modes to the system may provide richer SU(N)\mathrm{SU}(N)SU(N) physics that the static one cannot reach. However, a discussion of whether or not the driving modes will break the SU(NNN) symmetry is still lacking. Here we experimentally study a Floquet engineered degenerate 87Sr^{87}\mathrm{Sr}87Sr optical lattice clock (OLC) by periodically modulating the frequency of the lattice laser. With the help of Rabi spectroscopy, we find that the atoms at different Zeeman sublevels are tuned by the same driven function. Meanwhile, our experimental results suggest that the uniform distribution among the sublevels does not change despite the driving. Our experimental demonstrations may pave the way for implementation of Floquet engineering on tailoring the SU(N)\mathrm{SU}(N)SU(N) physics in the OLC system.