"Observation of Correlated Particle-Hole Pairs and String Order in Low-Dimensional Mott Insulators."

  • Datum: 10.01.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 13:15 - 13:15
  • Vortragende(r): Manuel Endres, MPI für Quanten Optik, Garching, Abt. Quanten-Vielteilchensysteme
  • Raum: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
  • Gastgeber: MPQ
Quantum phases of matter are characterized by the underlying correlations of the many-body system. Although this is typically captured by a local order parameter, it has been shown that a broad class of many-body systems possesses a hidden nonlocal order. In the case of bosonic Mott insulators, the ground state properties are governed by quantum fluctuations in the form of correlated particle-hole pairs that lead to the emergence of a nonlocal string order in one dimension. By using high-resolution imaging of low-dimensional quantum gases in an optical lattice, we directly detect these pairs with single-site and single-particle sensitivity and observe string order in the one-dimensional case.
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