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arXiv:2605.14909

Revealing Hidden Correlations in a Fermi-Hubbard system via Interaction Ramps

Botond Oreg, Carter Turnbaugh, Jens Hertkorn, Ningyuan Jia, Martin W. Zwierlein

Published May 14, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We observe an enhanced visibility of charge-density-wave correlations in a cold-atom realization of the attractive Hubbard model following a rapid boost of the interaction strength. The interaction boost associates nonlocal pairs into doublons which mark the center of mass of the original pairs. The enhancement is largest in the strongly correlated regime where pairing is nonlocal. We distinguish the unpaired Fermi liquid from the pseudogap phase of preformed pairs by analyzing atom-resolved spin-charge correlations after the ramp. The technique we establish here may facilitate the observation of exotic forms of pair order in spin-imbalanced systems, and of stripe order in the dual case of the doped repulsive Hubbard model.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2605.14909

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