Quantum gas microscopy for single atom and spin detection

C Gross, WS Bakr - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
A particular strength of ultracold quantum gases is the range of versatile detection methods
that are available. As they are based on atom–light interactions, the whole quantum optics …

Repulsive Fermi and Bose polarons in quantum gases

F Scazza, M Zaccanti, P Massignan, MM Parish… - Atoms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polaron quasiparticles are formed when a mobile impurity is coupled to the elementary
excitations of a many-particle background. In the field of ultracold atoms, the study of the …

Magnetically mediated hole pairing in fermionic ladders of ultracold atoms

S Hirthe, T Chalopin, D Bourgund, P Bojović, A Bohrdt… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Conventional superconductivity emerges from pairing of charge carriers—electrons or holes—
mediated by phonons. In many unconventional superconductors, the pairing mechanism is …

Exploration of doped quantum magnets with ultracold atoms

A Bohrdt, L Homeier, C Reinmoser, E Demler, F Grusdt - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last decade, quantum simulators, and in particular cold atoms in optical lattices, have
emerged as a valuable tool to study strongly correlated quantum matter. These experiments …

Microscopic evolution of doped Mott insulators from polaronic metal to Fermi liquid

J Koepsell, D Bourgund, P Sompet, S Hirthe, A Bohrdt… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The competition between antiferromagnetism and hole motion in two-dimensional Mott
insulators lies at the heart of a doping-dependent transition from an anomalous metal to a …

Directly imaging spin polarons in a kinetically frustrated Hubbard system

ML Prichard, BM Spar, I Morera, E Demler, ZZ Yan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of quasiparticles in quantum many-body systems underlies the rich
phenomenology in many strongly interacting materials. In the context of doped Mott …

Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator

M Lebrat, M Xu, LH Kendrick, A Kale, Y Gang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum interference can deeply alter the nature of many-body phases of matter. In the
case of the Hubbard model, Nagaoka proved that introducing a single itinerant charge can …

Realization of a Fermi-Hubbard optical tweezer array

BM Spar, E Guardado-Sanchez, S Chi, ZZ Yan… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We use lithium-6 atoms in an optical tweezer array to realize an eight-site Fermi-Hubbard
chain near half filling. We achieve single site detection by combining the tweezer array with …

Defect-mediated ferromagnetism in correlated two-dimensional transition metal phosphorus trisulfides

F Wang, N Mathur, AN Janes, H Sheng, P He… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Controlling the magnetic spin states of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials
with strong electronic or magnetic correlation is important for spintronic applications but …

Two-dimensional programmable tweezer arrays of fermions

ZZ Yan, BM Spar, ML Prichard, S Chi, HT Wei… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We prepare high-filling two-component arrays of tens of fermionic Li 6 atoms in optical
tweezers, with the atoms in the ground motional state of each tweezer. Using a stroboscopic …