Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | SEM-LPTMC |
Subjects | cond-mat.mes-hall |
Date | Wednesday 19 December 2018 |
Time | 11:00 |
Institute | LPTMC |
Seminar Room | Jussieu, tower 13-12, room 5-23 |
Speaker's Last Name | Repellin |
Speaker's First Name | Cécile |
Speaker's Email Address | repellin [at] mit [dot] edu |
Speaker's Institution | MIT, Cambridge, USA |
Title | Detecting fractional Chern insulators using circular dichroism |
Abstract | Great efforts are currently devoted to the engineering of topological Bloch bands in ultracold atomic gases. Recent achievements in this direction, together with the possibility of tuning inter-particle interactions, suggest that strongly-correlated states reminiscent of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) liquids could soon be generated in these systems. In this experimental framework, where transport measurements are limited, identifying unambiguous signatures of FQH-like states constitutes a challenge on its own. Here, we demonstrate that the fractional nature of the quantized Hall conductance, a fundamental characteristic of FQH states, could be detected in ultracold gases through a circular-dichroic measurement, namely, by monitoring the energy absorbed by the atomic cloud upon a circular drive. We validate this approach by comparing the circular-dichroic signal to the many-body Chern number, and discuss how such measurements could be performed to distinguish FQH-type states from competing states. Our scheme offers a practical tool for the detection of topologically-ordered states in quantum-engineered systems, with potential applications in solid state. |
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