Coherent control over the high-dimensional space of the nuclear spin of alkaline-earth atoms
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| author | Ahmed, Husain Litvinov, Andrea Guesdon, Pauline Maréchal, Etienne Huckans, John H. Pasquiou, Benjamin Laburthe-Tolra, Bruno Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, Martin |
| author_facet | Ahmed, Husain Litvinov, Andrea Guesdon, Pauline Maréchal, Etienne Huckans, John H. Pasquiou, Benjamin Laburthe-Tolra, Bruno Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, Martin |
| contents | We demonstrate coherent manipulation of the nuclear degrees of freedom of ultracold ground-state strontium 87 atoms, thus providing a toolkit for fully exploiting the corresponding large Hilbert space as a quantum resource and for quantum simulation experiments with SU(N)-symmetric matter. By controlling the resonance conditions of Raman transitions with a tensor light shift, we can perform rotations within a restricted Hilbert space of two isolated spin states among the 2F+1 = 10 possible states. These manipulations correspond to engineering unitary operations deriving from generators of the SU(N) algebra beyond what can be done by simple spin precession. We present Ramsey interferometers involving an isolated pair of Zeeman states with no measurable decoherence after 3 seconds. We also demonstrate that one can harvest the large spin degrees of freedom as a qudit resource by implementing two interferometer schemes over four states. The first scheme senses in parallel multiple external fields acting on the atoms, and the second scheme simultaneously measures multiple observables of a collective atomic state - including non-commuting ones. Engineering unitary transformations of the large spin driven by other generators than the usual spin-F representation of the SU(2) group offers new possibilities from the point of view of quantum metrology and quantum many-body physics, notably for the quantum simulation of large-spin SU(N)-symmetric quantum magnetism with fermionic alkaline-earth atoms. |
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| spellingShingle | Coherent control over the high-dimensional space of the nuclear spin of alkaline-earth atoms Ahmed, Husain Litvinov, Andrea Guesdon, Pauline Maréchal, Etienne Huckans, John H. Pasquiou, Benjamin Laburthe-Tolra, Bruno Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, Martin Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Atomic Physics We demonstrate coherent manipulation of the nuclear degrees of freedom of ultracold ground-state strontium 87 atoms, thus providing a toolkit for fully exploiting the corresponding large Hilbert space as a quantum resource and for quantum simulation experiments with SU(N)-symmetric matter. By controlling the resonance conditions of Raman transitions with a tensor light shift, we can perform rotations within a restricted Hilbert space of two isolated spin states among the 2F+1 = 10 possible states. These manipulations correspond to engineering unitary operations deriving from generators of the SU(N) algebra beyond what can be done by simple spin precession. We present Ramsey interferometers involving an isolated pair of Zeeman states with no measurable decoherence after 3 seconds. We also demonstrate that one can harvest the large spin degrees of freedom as a qudit resource by implementing two interferometer schemes over four states. The first scheme senses in parallel multiple external fields acting on the atoms, and the second scheme simultaneously measures multiple observables of a collective atomic state - including non-commuting ones. Engineering unitary transformations of the large spin driven by other generators than the usual spin-F representation of the SU(2) group offers new possibilities from the point of view of quantum metrology and quantum many-body physics, notably for the quantum simulation of large-spin SU(N)-symmetric quantum magnetism with fermionic alkaline-earth atoms. |
| title | Coherent control over the high-dimensional space of the nuclear spin of alkaline-earth atoms |
| topic | Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01731 |