Effects of Small-Chain Superexchange Dynamics on Spin-Orbit Coupled Clock Spectroscopy

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Main Authors: Mamaev, Mikhail, Rey, Ana Maria, Milner, William R.
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author Mamaev, Mikhail
Rey, Ana Maria
Milner, William R.
author_facet Mamaev, Mikhail
Rey, Ana Maria
Milner, William R.
contents Optical lattice clocks have set records in clock precision and accuracy. Continuing to advance their performance, via probing as many atoms for the longest interrogation time affordable, requires experimentally and theoretically studying a many-body lattice system. Motivated by recent experimental results on a Fermi-degenerate three-dimensional optical lattice clock, we present a theoretical overview of Ramsey and Rabi spectroscopy in one-dimensional chains. At realistic experimental temperatures and confinement conditions, atoms are spatially localized into small chains of $\approx 1-5$ atoms. We show that in the presence of spin-orbit coupling induced by the clock laser, the spectroscopy observables are modified by superexchange interactions within each chain, and depend strongly on the length of the chain. The thermal distribution of chain lengths thus plays a key role in the spectroscopy measurements. Our results offer insight into observable many-body effects in state-of-the-art lattice clocks and suggest new directions for optimizing clock performance.
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spellingShingle Effects of Small-Chain Superexchange Dynamics on Spin-Orbit Coupled Clock Spectroscopy
Mamaev, Mikhail
Rey, Ana Maria
Milner, William R.
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
Optical lattice clocks have set records in clock precision and accuracy. Continuing to advance their performance, via probing as many atoms for the longest interrogation time affordable, requires experimentally and theoretically studying a many-body lattice system. Motivated by recent experimental results on a Fermi-degenerate three-dimensional optical lattice clock, we present a theoretical overview of Ramsey and Rabi spectroscopy in one-dimensional chains. At realistic experimental temperatures and confinement conditions, atoms are spatially localized into small chains of $\approx 1-5$ atoms. We show that in the presence of spin-orbit coupling induced by the clock laser, the spectroscopy observables are modified by superexchange interactions within each chain, and depend strongly on the length of the chain. The thermal distribution of chain lengths thus plays a key role in the spectroscopy measurements. Our results offer insight into observable many-body effects in state-of-the-art lattice clocks and suggest new directions for optimizing clock performance.
title Effects of Small-Chain Superexchange Dynamics on Spin-Orbit Coupled Clock Spectroscopy
topic Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11433