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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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