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Spin-asymmetrinen Josephsonin ilmiö optisissa superhiloissa

Kreula, Juha

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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This work considers the theory of ultracold Fermi gases. We study the spin-asymmetric Josephson effect where the spin components of a Cooper pair feel spin-dependent potentials during the tunneling process and as a result oscillate at the same Josephson frequency but with different amplitudes. This contrasts the conventional interpretation of the Josephson effect in which the Cooper-paired spins 'tunnel together'. Here, we propose a new experimental arrangement to detect the yet-unobserved spin-asymmetric Josephson effect. We investigate two-component fermions in a one-dimensional spin-dependent optical superlattice described by a Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian and simulate the dynamics of the set-up with the essentially exact time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) numerical method. We demonstrate that the characteristics of the spin-asymmetric Josephson effect, frequency-synchronized particle number oscillations with spin-asymmetric critical currents, are present in the system. We show that the Josephson frequency depends only on the sum of the spin-dependent potential offsets between two adjacent sites in the super-lattice. We further exhibit that significant asymmetries of over 10% in the critical currents of the spin components are feasible. We also evince that the properties of the particle currents in the super-lattice system agree with the analytical results given by a Hubbard dimer model consisting of only one unit cell of the super-lattice in the strongly interacting limit.

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