Probing Coherences and Itinerant Magnetism in a Dipolar Lattice Gas
Abstract
We report on the study of itinerant magnetism of lattice-trapped magnetic atoms, driven by magnetic dipole-dipole interactions, in the low-entropy and close-to-unit filling regime. We have used advanced dynamical decoupling techniques to efficiently suppress the sensitivity to magnetic field fluctuations. We have thus measured the spin coherence of an itinerant spin 3 Bose dipolar gas throughout a quantum phase transition from a superfluid phase to a Mott insulating phase. In the superfluid phase, a metastable ferromagnetic behavior is observed below a dynamical instability which occurs at lattice depths below the phase transition. In the insulating phase, the thermalization towards a paramagnetic state is driven by an interplay between intersite and superexchange interactions.
Related
- Probing quantum spin liquids with multiple quantum coherences
- Microwave probing of magnetic phases in a dipolar-exchange magnet LiGdF4
- Probing near-surface potentials with the self-binding threshold of dipolar quantum droplets
- Supersolid crystals of dipolar excitons in a lattice
- Topological supersolidity of dipolar Fermi gases in a spin-dependent optical lattice
BibTeX
@article{laupretre2026probing,
title = {{Probing Coherences and Itinerant Magnetism in a Dipolar Lattice Gas}},
author = {Thomas Lauprêtre and Jose Daniel Bernal and Youcef Baamara and Ana Maria Rey and Laurent Vernac and Bruno Laburthe-Tolra},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.1103/h3fr-chgk},
eprint = {2501.11402},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05610341v1},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Probing Coherences and Itinerant Magnetism in a Dipolar Lattice Gas
AU - Thomas Lauprêtre
AU - Jose Daniel Bernal
AU - Youcef Baamara
AU - Ana Maria Rey
AU - Laurent Vernac
AU - Bruno Laburthe-Tolra
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/03
JO - Physical Review Letters
DO - 10.1103/h3fr-chgk
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05610341v1
AB - We report on the study of itinerant magnetism of lattice-trapped magnetic atoms, driven by magnetic dipole-dipole interactions, in the low-entropy and close-to-unit filling regime. We have used advanced dynamical decoupling techniques to efficiently suppress the sensitivity to magnetic field fluctuations. We have thus measured the spin coherence of an itinerant spin 3 Bose dipolar gas throughout a quantum phase transition from a superfluid phase to a Mott insulating phase. In the superfluid phase, a metastable ferromagnetic behavior is observed below a dynamical instability which occurs at lattice depths below the phase transition. In the insulating phase, the thermalization towards a paramagnetic state is driven by an interplay between intersite and superexchange interactions.
SN - 0031-9007
SN - 1079-7114
ER -