The tunneling dynamics of a dipolar bosonic gas with repulsive interactions in a periodically driven triple-well are investigated. Because of the coupled effect of long-range dipole-dipole interaction and the short-range of on-site interaction, the increase of the repulsive atomic interactions can either suppress tunneling or enhance tunneling and, thus, the system experiences rich coherent tunneling(CT)-coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT) transitions. In particular, as the repulsive atomic interactions increase, the system can undergo CT-CDT-CT-CDT or CDT-CT-CDT-CT-CDT transitions. This cannot occur in non-dipolar gas, where the increase of the repulsive atomic interaction only suppress tunneling and the system can only undergo CT-CDT transition. We further present a good understanding of the results with the help of the quasi-energy spectrum of the system.
Recent experimental progress in producing ultracold polar molecules with a net electric dipole moment opens up possibilities for realizing quantum phases governed by the long-range and anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions. In this work we predict the existence of experimentally observable broken-symmetry states with spontaneous interlayer coherence in cold polar molecule bilayers. These exotic states, which are manifestations of collective bilayer quantum entanglement, appear due to strong repulsive interlayer interactions and exhibit properties of superfluids, ferromagnets, and excitonic condensates.
Using the example of dysprosium atoms in an optical lattice, we show how dipolar interactions between magnetic dipoles can be used to obtain fractional quantum Hall states. In our approach, dysprosium atoms are trapped one atom per site in a deep optical lattice with negligible tunneling. Microwave and spatially dependent optical dressing fields are used to define an effective spin-
21 or spin-1 degree of freedom in each atom. Thinking of spin-
21 particles as hard-core bosons, dipole-dipole interactions give rise to boson hopping, topological flat bands with Chern number 1, and the $\ensuremath{\nu}=\frac{1}{2}$ Laughlin state. Thinking of spin-1 particles as two-component hard-core bosons, dipole-dipole interactions again give rise to boson hopping, topological flat bands with Chern number 2, and the bilayer Halperin (2,2,1) state. By adjusting the optical fields, we find a phase diagram, in which the (2,2,1) state competes with superfluidity. Generalizations to solid-state magnetic dipoles are discussed.