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Experimental observation of N00N state Bloch oscillations

Maxime Lebugle, Markus Gräfe, René Heilmann, Armando Pérez-Leija, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit

Published Sep 22, 2015• 60 citations

Abstract

Bloch oscillations of quantum particles manifest themselves as periodic spreading and relocalization of the associated wave functions when traversing lattice potentials subject to external gradient forces. Albeit this phenomenon is deeply rooted into the very foundations of quantum mechanics, all experimental observations so far have only contemplated dynamics of one and two particles initially prepared in separable local states. Evidently, a more general description of genuinely quantum Bloch oscillations will be achieved on excitation of a Bloch oscillator by nonlocal states. Here we report the observation of Bloch oscillations of two-particle N00N states, and discuss the nonlocality on the ground of Bell-like inequalities. The time evolution of two-photon N00N states in Bloch oscillators, whether symmetric, antisymmetric or partially symmetric, reveals transitions from particle antibunching to bunching. Consequently, the initial states can be tailored to produce spatial correlations akin to those of bosons, fermions and anyons, presenting potential applications in photonic quantum simulation.

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9273

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The onset of Bloch oscillations (BOs) for two correlated anyons hopping on a one-dimensional lattice is theoretically investigated in the framework of the anyon-Hubbard model. It is shown that, even in the absence of on-site particle interaction, BOs are degraded for a nonvanishing statistical phase exchange owing to the nonlocal quasiparticle nature of anyons. A remarkable exception is found for pseudofermions, i.e., particles that, although they are bosons on site, behave as fermions off site. In this case, if the ratio of forcing to the hopping rate is smaller than $\ensuremath{\sim}$

0.5

, in the absence of on-site interaction long-lived BOs are observed at a frequency which is half the BO frequency of single particles. This is notably distinct from results for previously investigated BOs of two strongly correlated bosons or fermions, in which particle correlation leads to a doubling of the BO frequency.

We identify a type of periodic evolution that appears in driven quantum systems. Provided that the instantaneous (adiabatic) energies are equidistant we show how such systems can be mapped to (time-dependent) tilted single-band lattice models. Having established this mapping, the dynamics can be understood in terms of Bloch oscillations in the instantaneous energy basis. In our lattice model the site-localized states are the adiabatic ones, and the Bloch oscillations manifest as a periodic repopulation among these states, or equivalently a periodic change in the system's instantaneous energy. Our predictions are confirmed by considering two different models: a driven harmonic oscillator and a Landau-Zener grid model. To strengthen the link between our energy Bloch oscillations and the original spatial Bloch oscillations we add a random disorder that breaks the translational invariance of the spectrum. This verifies that the oscillating evolution breaks down and instead turns into a diffusive spreading. Finally, we consider a trapped ion setup and demonstrate how the mechanism can be utilized to prepare motional cat state of the ion.