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Search Publications by: Ian Spielman (Fed)

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Exceeding the Sauter-Schwinger limit of pair production with a quantum gas

September 21, 2019
Author(s)
Alina M. Pineiro Escalera, Mingwu Lu, Dina Genkina, Ian Spielman
We quantum-simulated particle-antiparticle pair production with a bosonic quantum gas in an optical lattice by emulating the requisite 1d Dirac equation and uniform electric field. We emulated field strengths far in excess of Sauter-Schwinger's limit for

Spin-orbit coupled bosons in one dimension: Emergent gauge field and Lifshitz transition

May 16, 2019
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, William Cole, Junhyun Lee, Khan Mahmud, Yahya Alavirad, Jay Sau
We propose the two component spin-orbit coupled Bose liquid as a platform for studying quantum criticality in itinerant magnets. Apart from being pervasive in the solid state, quantum critical fluctuations in such itinerant systems often involve the

Imaging topology of Hofstadter ribbons

May 8, 2019
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Dina Genkina, Alina M. Pineiro Escalera, Hsin-I Lu, Lauren Aycock
Physical systems with non-trivial topological order find direct applications in metrology[1] and promise future applications in quantum computing[2,3]. The quantum Hall effect derives from transverse conductance, quantized to unprecedented precision in

Topological Bands for Ultracold Atoms

March 25, 2019
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Nigel Cooper, Jean Dalibard
There have been significant recent advances in realizing bandstructures with geometrical and topological features in experiments on cold atomic gases. We provide an overview of these developments, beginning with a summary of the key concepts of geometry

Artificial gauge fields with ultracold neutral atoms

January 1, 2019
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Victor Galitski, Gediminas Juzeliunas
Gauge fields are ubiquitous in nature. In the context of quantum electrodynamics, you may be familiar with the photon, that represents the dynamical gauge field mediating electromagnetic forces. In fact all elementary interactions are mediated by gauge

Perpetual emulation threshold of PT-symmetric Hamiltonians

June 29, 2018
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Clive Emary, Dimitris Trypogeorgos, Ana Vald?s-Curiel
We describe a technique to emulate a two-level PT-symmetric spin Hamiltonian, replete with gain and loss, using only the unitary dynamics of a larger quantum system. This we achieve by embedding the two-level system in question in a subspace of a four

Second Chern number of a quantum-simulated non-Abelian Yang monopole

June 29, 2018
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Francisco Salces Carcoba, Yuchen Yue, Abigail Perry, Seiji Sugawa
Topological order is often quantified in terms of Chern numbers, each of which classifies a topological singularity. Here, inspired by concepts from high-energy physics, we use quantum simulation based on the spin degrees of freedom of atomic Bose-Einstein

A supersonically expanding Bose-Einstein condensate: an expanding universe in the lab

April 19, 2018
Author(s)
Stephen P. Eckel, Avinash Kumar, Theodore Jacobson, Ian B. Spielman, Gretchen K. Campbell
We study the dynamics of a supersonically expanding Bose-Einstein ring condensate both experimentally and theoretically using simulations. Such expansion shows a redshift of long-wavelength excitations, similar to those seen in the standard cosmological

Topological lattice using multi-frequency radiation

March 19, 2018
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Gediminas Juzeli?nas, Tomas Andrijauskas
We describe a novel technique for creating an artificial magnetic field for ultra-cold atoms using a periodically pulsed pair of counter propagating Raman lasers that drive transitions between a pair of internal atomic spin states: a multi-frequency

Synthetic clock transitions via continuous dynamical decoupling

January 16, 2018
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Nathan Lundblad, Ana Valdes-Curiel, Dimitrius Trypogeorgos
Decoherence of quantum systems due to uncontrolled fluctuations of the environment presents fundamental obstacles in quantum science. `Clock' transitions which are insensitive to such fluctuations are used to improve coherence, however, they are not

Quantum Phases of Two-Component Bosons with Spin-Orbit Coupling in Optical Lattices

December 26, 2017
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Carlos S? de Melo, Daisuke Yamamoto
Ultracold bosons in optical lattices are one of the few systems where bosonic matter is known to exhibit strong correlations. Here, to push the frontier of our understanding of interacting bosons in optical lattices, we add synthetic spin-orbit coupling