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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 6: Quantum Gases: Bosons I
Q 6.8: Talk
Monday, March 6, 2017, 16:15–16:30, P 204
Observation of Four-body Ring-exchange Interaction and Anyonic Fractional Statistics — •Han-Ning Dai1,2,3, Bing Yang1,2,3, Andreas Reingruber2,5, Hui Sun1,3, Xiao-Fan Xu2, Yu-Ao Chen1,3,4, Zhen-Sheng Yuan1,2,3,4, and Jian-Wei Pan1,2,3,4 — 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscal and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China — 2Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany — 3CAS Center for Excellence and Synergetic Innovation Center in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China — 4CAS-Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory, Shanghai 201315, China — 5Department of Physics and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse, Building 46, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
We report the observation of four-body ring-exchange interactions and the topological properties of anyonic excitations within an ultracold atom system. A minimum toric code Hamiltonian in which the ring exchange is the dominant term, was implemented by engineering a Hubbard Hamiltonian that describes atomic spins in disconnected plaquette arrays formed by two orthogonal superlattices.