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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 20: SYRA 2: Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Molecules 2
A 20.4: Talk
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 15:15–15:30, V47.01
Supersymmetry in Rydberg-dressed lattice fermions — •Hendrik Weimer1, Liza Huijse1, Alexey Gorshkov2, Guido Pupillo3, Peter Zoller4, Mikhail Lukin1, and Eugene Demler1 — 1Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA — 2IQI, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA — 3University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France — 4University of Innsbruck and IQOQI, Innsbruck, Austria
Supersymmetry is a powerful tool that allows the characterization of
strongly correlated many-body systems, in particular in the case of
supersymmetric extensions of the fermionic Hubbard model [1]. At the
same time, these models can exhibit rich and exotic physics on their
own, such as flat bands with a vanishing dispersion relation. We show
that such lattice models can be realized with Rydberg-dressed fermions
in optical lattices. Strong interactions within the ground state
manifold of the atoms can be realized by admixing a weak contribution
of a highly excited Rydberg state [2]. We discuss the unique
possbilities of ultracold atoms for the detection of supersymmetry and
the effects of tuning the system away from the supersymmetric point.
[1] P. Fendley, K. Schoutens, J. de Boer, PRL 90, 120402 (2003).
[2] J. Honer, H. Weimer, T. Pfau, H. P. Büchler, PRL 105, 160404 (2010).