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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 51: Poster: Quantum Optics and Photonics IV
Q 51.20: Poster
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 16:15–18:15, Redoutensaal
Manipulating spin correlations in a periodically driven many-body system — •Kilian Sandholzer1, Frederik Görg1, Michael Messer1, Joaquìn Minguzzi1, Gregor Jotzu1,2, Rémi Desbuquois1, and Tilman Esslinger1 — 1Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland — 2Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
Periodic driving can be used to coherently control the properties of a many-body state and to realize new phases which are not accessible in static systems. In this context, cold fermions in optical lattices provide a highly tunable platform to investigate driven many-body systems and additionally offer the prospect of quantitative comparisons to theoretical predictions. We implement a driven Fermi-Hubbard model by periodically modulating a 3D hexagonal lattice. In the regime where the drive frequency is much higher than all other relevant energy scales, we verify that the interacting system can be described by a renormalized tunneling. Furthermore, we achieve independent control over the single particle tunneling and the magnetic exchange energy by driving near-resonantly to the interaction. As a consequence, we are able to show that anti-ferromagnetic correlations in a fermionic many-body system can be enhanced or even switched to ferromagnetic correlations. The implementation of more complex modulation schemes opens the possibility to combine the physics of artificial gauge fields and strongly-correlated systems.