Coherent heteronuclear spin dynamics in an ultracold spin-1 mixture
Atomic Physics
2015-07-01 v1 Quantum Gases
Abstract
We report the observation of coherent heteronuclear spin dynamics driven by inter-species spin-spin interaction in an ultracold spinor mixture, which manifests as periodical and well correlated spin oscillations between two atomic species. In particular, we investigate the magnetic field dependence of the oscillations and find a resonance behavior which depends on {\em both} the linear and quadratic Zeeman effects and the spin-dependent interaction. We also demonstrate a unique knob for controlling the spin dynamics in the spinor mixture with species-dependent vector light shifts. Our finds are in agreement with theoretical simulations without any fitting parameters.
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@article{arxiv.1502.03867,
title = {Coherent heteronuclear spin dynamics in an ultracold spin-1 mixture},
author = {Xiaoke Li and Bing Zhu and Xiaodong He and Fudong Wang and Mingyang Guo and Zhi-Fang Xu and Shizhong Zhang and Dajun Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03867},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages including the supplementary material