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Adiabatic quantum Zeno dynamics of bosonic atom pairs with large inelastic losses

Manel Bosch Aguilera, Rémy Vatré, Raphaël Bouganne, J. Beugnon, Fabrice Gerbier, Alexis Ghermaoui

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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We report on experiments exploring the non-Hermitian dynamics of pairs of two-level atoms tightly confined in an optical lattice and driven by a near-resonant laser. Although spontaneous emission is negligible for the long-lived excited state, two-body dissipation arises from strong inelastic collisions between two atoms in the excited state. We demonstrate quasi-adiabatic control of the internal state of the pairs in the quantum Zeno regime where inelastic losses dominate. Preparing each atom pair in the longest-lived eigenstate of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian describing the dissipative dynamics, we measure a lifetime enhanced by more than two orders of magnitude in comparison to the bare two-body lifetime. The measured enhancement factor is in quantitative agreement with the expected lifetime of the prepared “non-Hermitian dressed state.”

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10.1103/physreva.106.053304

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