Shapiro steps in strongly-interacting Fermi gases

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Del Pace, Giulia, Hernández-Rajkov, Diego, Singh, Vijay Pal, Grani, Nicola, Fernández, Marcia Frómeta, Nesti, Giulio, Seman, Jorge Amin, Inguscio, Massimo, Amico, Luigi, Roati, Giacomo
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2024
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866918274387673088
author Del Pace, Giulia
Hernández-Rajkov, Diego
Singh, Vijay Pal
Grani, Nicola
Fernández, Marcia Frómeta
Nesti, Giulio
Seman, Jorge Amin
Inguscio, Massimo
Amico, Luigi
Roati, Giacomo
author_facet Del Pace, Giulia
Hernández-Rajkov, Diego
Singh, Vijay Pal
Grani, Nicola
Fernández, Marcia Frómeta
Nesti, Giulio
Seman, Jorge Amin
Inguscio, Massimo
Amico, Luigi
Roati, Giacomo
contents We report the observation of Shapiro steps in a periodically driven Josephson junction between strongly-interacting Fermi superfluids of ultracold atoms. We observe quantized plateaus in the current-potential characteristics, the height and width of which mirror the external drive frequency and the junction nonlinear response. Direct measurements of the current-phase relationship showcase how Shapiro steps arise from the synchronization between the relative phase of the two reservoirs and the external drive. Such mechanism is further supported by the detection of periodic phase-slippage processes, in the form of vortex-antivortex pairs. Our results are corroborated by a circuital model and numerical simulations, overall providing a clear understanding of Shapiro dynamics in atomic Fermi superfluids. Our work demonstrates phase-coherent and synchronization effects in driven strongly-interacting superfluids, opening prospects for studying emergent non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum many-body systems under external drives.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2409_03448
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Shapiro steps in strongly-interacting Fermi gases
Del Pace, Giulia
Hernández-Rajkov, Diego
Singh, Vijay Pal
Grani, Nicola
Fernández, Marcia Frómeta
Nesti, Giulio
Seman, Jorge Amin
Inguscio, Massimo
Amico, Luigi
Roati, Giacomo
Quantum Gases
Superconductivity
Atomic Physics
We report the observation of Shapiro steps in a periodically driven Josephson junction between strongly-interacting Fermi superfluids of ultracold atoms. We observe quantized plateaus in the current-potential characteristics, the height and width of which mirror the external drive frequency and the junction nonlinear response. Direct measurements of the current-phase relationship showcase how Shapiro steps arise from the synchronization between the relative phase of the two reservoirs and the external drive. Such mechanism is further supported by the detection of periodic phase-slippage processes, in the form of vortex-antivortex pairs. Our results are corroborated by a circuital model and numerical simulations, overall providing a clear understanding of Shapiro dynamics in atomic Fermi superfluids. Our work demonstrates phase-coherent and synchronization effects in driven strongly-interacting superfluids, opening prospects for studying emergent non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum many-body systems under external drives.
title Shapiro steps in strongly-interacting Fermi gases
topic Quantum Gases
Superconductivity
Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03448