Zhihao Lan
Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions
Lan, Zhihao; Min�?, Ji?�; Levi, Emanuele; Li, Weibin; Lesanovsky, Igor
Authors
Ji?� Min�?
Emanuele Levi
Dr WEIBIN LI WEIBIN.LI@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Professor IGOR LESANOVSKY IGOR.LESANOVSKY@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS
Abstract
The devil's staircase is a fractal structure that characterizes the ground state of one-dimensional classical lattice gases with long-range repulsive convex interactions. Its plateaus mark regions of stability for specific filling fractions which are controlled by a chemical potential. Typically such staircase has an explicit particle-hole symmetry, i.e., the staircase at more than half-filling can be trivially extracted from the one at less than half filling by exchanging the roles of holes and particles. Here we introduce a quantum spin chain with competing short-range attractive and long-range repulsive interactions, i.e. a non-convex potential. In the classical limit the ground state features generalized Wigner crystals that --- depending on the filling fraction --- are either composed of dimer particles or dimer holes which results in an emergent complete devil's staircase without explicit particle-hole symmetry of the underlying microscopic model. In our system the particle-hole symmetry is lifted due to the fact that the staircase is controlled through a two-body interaction rather than a one-body chemical potential. The introduction of quantum fluctuations through a transverse field melts the staircase and ultimately makes the system enter a paramagnetic phase. For intermediate transverse field strengths, however, we identify a region, where the density-density correlations suggest the emergence of quasi long-range order. We discuss how this physics can be explored with Rydberg-dressed atoms held in a lattice.
Citation
Lan, Z., Minář, J., Levi, E., Li, W., & Lesanovsky, I. (2015). Emergent devil's staircase without particle-hole symmetry in Rydberg quantum gases with competing attractive and repulsive interactions. Physical Review Letters, 115, Article 203001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.203001
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Nov 11, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Dec 3, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 3, 2015 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Print ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Electronic ISSN | 1079-7114 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 115 |
Article Number | 203001 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.203001 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/767133 |
Publisher URL | http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.203001 |
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