Suppressing Dissipation in a Floquet-Hubbard System
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2021-01
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The concept of “Floquet engineering” relies on an external periodic drive to realize novel, effectively static Hamiltonians. This technique is being explored in experimental platforms across physics, including ultracold atoms, laser-driven electron systems, nuclear magnetic resonance, and trapped ions. The key challenge in Floquet engineering is to avoid the uncontrolled absorption of photons from the drive, especially in interacting systems in which the excitation spectrum becomes effectively dense. The resulting dissipative coupling to higher-lying modes, such as the excited bands of an optical lattice, has been explored in recent experimental and theoretical works, but the demonstration of a broadly applicable method to mitigate this effect is lacking. Here, we show how two-path quantum interference applied to strongly correlated fermions in a driven optical lattice suppresses dissipative coupling to higher bands and increases the lifetime of double occupancies and spin correlations by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude. Interference is achieved by introducing a weak second modulation at twice the fundamental driving frequency with a definite relative phase. This technique is shown to suppress dissipation in both weakly and strongly interacting regimes of an offresonantly driven Hubbard system, opening an avenue to realizing low-temperature phases of matter in interacting Floquet systems.
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11 (1)
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11057
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American Physical Society
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Atomic and Molecular Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Strongly Correlated Material
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03599 - Esslinger, Tilman / Esslinger, Tilman
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