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Quantized conductance through a spin-selective atomic point contact

Quantum Gases 2019-11-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Atomic Physics

Abstract

We implement a microscopic spin filter for cold fermionic atoms in a quantum point contact (QPC) and create fully spin-polarized currents while retaining conductance quantization. Key to our scheme is a near-resonant optical tweezer inducing a large effective Zeeman shift inside the QPC while its local character limits dissipation. We observe a renormalization of this shift due to interactions of a few atoms in the QPC. Our work represents the analog of an actual spintronic device and paves the way to studying the interplay between spin-splitting and interactions far from equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.1902.05516,
  title  = {Quantized conductance through a spin-selective atomic point contact},
  author = {Martin Lebrat and Samuel Häusler and Philipp Fabritius and Dominik Husmann and Laura Corman and Tilman Esslinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05516},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

see also companion paper arXiv:1907.06436

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