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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 17: Quantum Gases: Bosons I
Q 17.4: Vortrag
Dienstag, 1. März 2016, 12:00–12:15, e001
Lattice Physics with Ultracold Magnetic Erbium — •Simon Baier1, Manfred J. Mark1,2, Daniel Petter1, Kiyotaka Aikawa1, Lauriane Chomaz1,2, Zi Cai2, Mikhail Baranov2, Peter Zoller2,3, and Francesca Ferlaino1,2 — 1Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria — 2Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria — 3Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 21A, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Strongly magnetic atoms are an ideal systems to study many-body quantum phenomena with anisotropic and long-range interactions. Here, we report on the first observation of the manifestation of magnetic dipolar interaction in extended Bose-Hubbard (eBH) dynamics by studying an ultracold gas of Er atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice. We drive the superfluid-to-Mott-insulator (SF-to-MI) quantum phase transition and demonstrate that the dipolar interaction can favor the SF or the MI phase depending on the orientation of the atomic dipoles. The system is well described by the individual terms of the eBH Hamiltonian. This includes the onsite interaction, which, additional to the isotropic contact interaction, can be tuned with the dipole-dipole interaction by changing the dipole orientation and the shape of the onsite Wannier functions. We find for the first time the presence of the nearest-neighbor interaction between two adjacent particles. Future work will investigate dipolar effects with erbium molecules and fermions as well as spin physics in our lattice system.